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Commit 6d6f3328 authored by Tetsuo Handa's avatar Tetsuo Handa Committed by James Morris
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commoncap: don't alloc the credential unless needed in cap_task_prctl



In function cap_task_prctl(), we would allocate a credential
unconditionally and then check if we support the requested function.
If not we would release this credential with abort_creds() by using
RCU method. But on some archs such as powerpc, the sys_prctl is heavily
used to get/set the floating point exception mode. So the unnecessary
allocating/releasing of credential not only introduce runtime overhead
but also do cause OOM due to the RCU implementation.

This patch removes abort_creds() from cap_task_prctl() by calling
prepare_creds() only when we need to modify it.

Reported-by: default avatarKevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSerge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
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