On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2017-10-26 at 01:40 -0700, Matthew Garrett via Selinux wrote: >> +static void selinux_cred_getsecid(const struct cred *c, u32 *secid) >> +{ >> + rcu_read_lock(); >> + *secid = cred_sid(c); >> + rcu_read_unlock(); > > Is rcu_read_lock() necessary here? Seems like we use cred_sid() in many > places without it. Ah, I thought it was based on task_sid(), but I guess that's actually protecting the __task_cred()?