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Jann Horn
0da74120c5
If a user is accessing a file in selinuxfs with a pointer to a userspace
buffer that is backed by e.g. a userfaultfd, the userspace access can
stall indefinitely, which can block fsi->mutex if it is held.
For sel_read_policy(), remove the locking, since this method doesn't seem
to access anything that requires locking.
For sel_read_bool(), move the user access below the locked region.
For sel_write_bool() and sel_commit_bools_write(), move the user access
up above the locked region.
Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <[email protected]>
[PM: removed an unused variable in sel_read_policy()]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[email protected]>
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