Merge branch 'stable-4.8' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit

Pull audit fixes from Paul Moore:
 "Two small patches to fix some bugs with the audit-by-executable
  functionality we introduced back in v4.3 (both patches are marked
  for the stable folks)"

* 'stable-4.8' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit:
  audit: fix exe_file access in audit_exe_compare
  mm: introduce get_task_exe_file
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Linus Torvalds 2016-09-01 15:55:56 -07:00
commit 511a8cdb65
4 changed files with 30 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -798,6 +798,29 @@ struct file *get_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_mm_exe_file);
/**
* get_task_exe_file - acquire a reference to the task's executable file
*
* Returns %NULL if task's mm (if any) has no associated executable file or
* this is a kernel thread with borrowed mm (see the comment above get_task_mm).
* User must release file via fput().
*/
struct file *get_task_exe_file(struct task_struct *task)
{
struct file *exe_file = NULL;
struct mm_struct *mm;
task_lock(task);
mm = task->mm;
if (mm) {
if (!(task->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
exe_file = get_mm_exe_file(mm);
}
task_unlock(task);
return exe_file;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_task_exe_file);
/**
* get_task_mm - acquire a reference to the task's mm
*