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Commit 2e0ad552 authored by Alexey Dobriyan's avatar Alexey Dobriyan Committed by Linus Torvalds
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proc: revalidate kernel thread inodes to root:root

task_dump_owner() has the following code:

	mm = task->mm;
	if (mm) {
		if (get_dumpable(mm) != SUID_DUMP_USER) {
			uid = ...
		}
	}

Check for ->mm is buggy -- kernel thread might be borrowing mm
and inode will go to some random uid:gid pair.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180412220109.GA20978@avx2


Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 1e630665
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