Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] security: Add a cred_getsecid hook

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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()?




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