From efc63c4fb0f95865907472d1c6bc0cfea9ee156b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:46:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Fix UTS corruption during clone(CLONE_NEWUTS) struct utsname is copied from master one without any exclusion. Here is sample output from one proggie doing sethostname("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"); sethostname("bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb"); and another clone(,, CLONE_NEWUTS, ...) uname() hostname = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbb' hostname = 'bbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa' hostname = 'aaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb' hostname = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbb' hostname = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabb' hostname = 'aaabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb' hostname = 'bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaa' Hostname is sometimes corrupted. Yes, even _the_ simplest namespace activity had bug in it. :-( Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/utsname.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/utsname.c b/kernel/utsname.c index 9d8180a0f0d8..816d7b24fa03 100644 --- a/kernel/utsname.c +++ b/kernel/utsname.c @@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ static struct uts_namespace *clone_uts_ns(struct uts_namespace *old_ns) if (!ns) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + down_read(&uts_sem); memcpy(&ns->name, &old_ns->name, sizeof(ns->name)); + up_read(&uts_sem); kref_init(&ns->kref); return ns; } -- 2.20.1