From ba0c19ed6a61a96d4b42b81cb19d4bc81b5f728c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Smalley Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 02:51:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] selinux: fix sb_lock/sb_security_lock nesting From: Stephen Smalley Fix unsafe nesting of sb_lock inside sb_security_lock in selinux_complete_init. Detected by the kernel locking validator. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley Acked-by: James Morris Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- security/selinux/hooks.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'security') diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c index 21dad415b896..90b4cdc0c948 100644 --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c @@ -4422,6 +4422,7 @@ void selinux_complete_init(void) /* Set up any superblocks initialized prior to the policy load. */ printk(KERN_INFO "SELinux: Setting up existing superblocks.\n"); + spin_lock(&sb_lock); spin_lock(&sb_security_lock); next_sb: if (!list_empty(&superblock_security_head)) { @@ -4430,19 +4431,20 @@ next_sb: struct superblock_security_struct, list); struct super_block *sb = sbsec->sb; - spin_lock(&sb_lock); sb->s_count++; - spin_unlock(&sb_lock); spin_unlock(&sb_security_lock); + spin_unlock(&sb_lock); down_read(&sb->s_umount); if (sb->s_root) superblock_doinit(sb, NULL); drop_super(sb); + spin_lock(&sb_lock); spin_lock(&sb_security_lock); list_del_init(&sbsec->list); goto next_sb; } spin_unlock(&sb_security_lock); + spin_unlock(&sb_lock); } /* SELinux requires early initialization in order to label -- cgit v1.2.3