sys_getppid: add missing rcu_dereference In order to safely dereference current->real_parent inside an rcu_read_lock, we need an rcu_dereference. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index dbaa624..9c3c62b 100644 --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ int pid; rcu_read_lock(); - pid = task_tgid_vnr(current->real_parent); + pid = task_tgid_vnr(rcu_dereference(current->real_parent)); rcu_read_unlock(); return pid;