[PATCH] selinux: fix tty locking Take tty_mutex when accessing ->signal->tty in selinux code. Noted by Alan Cox. Longer term, we are looking at refactoring the code to provide better encapsulation of the tty layer, but this is a simple fix that addresses the immediate bug. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c index 55cec4d..e4d81a4 100644 --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -1689,10 +1689,12 @@ { struct avc_audit_data ad; struct file *file, *devnull = NULL; - struct tty_struct *tty = current->signal->tty; + struct tty_struct *tty; struct fdtable *fdt; long j = -1; + mutex_lock(&tty_mutex); + tty = current->signal->tty; if (tty) { file_list_lock(); file = list_entry(tty->tty_files.next, typeof(*file), f_u.fu_list); @@ -1712,6 +1714,7 @@ } file_list_unlock(); } + mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex); /* Revalidate access to inherited open files. */