Patch "audit: fix exe_file access in audit_exe_compare" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

audit: fix exe_file access in audit_exe_compare

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
audit-fix-exe_file-access-in-audit_exe_compare.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Mateusz Guzik <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:20:39 +0200
Subject: audit: fix exe_file access in audit_exe_compare

From: Mateusz Guzik <[email protected]>

commit 5efc244346f9f338765da3d592f7947b0afdc4b5 upstream.

Prior to the change the function would blindly deference mm, exe_file and exe_file->f_inode, each of which could have been NULL or freed.

Use get_task_exe_file to safely obtain stable exe_file.

---
 kernel/audit_watch.c |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
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  */
 
+#include <linux/file.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/audit.h>
 #include <linux/kthread.h>

@@ -544,10 +545,11 @@ int audit_exe_compare(struct task_struct
 	unsigned long ino;
 	dev_t dev;
 
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	exe_file = rcu_dereference(tsk->mm->exe_file);
+	exe_file = get_task_exe_file(tsk);
+	if (!exe_file)
+		return 0;
 	ino = exe_file->f_inode->i_ino;
 	dev = exe_file->f_inode->i_sb->s_dev;
-	rcu_read_unlock();
+	fput(exe_file);
 	return audit_mark_compare(mark, ino, dev);
 }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/mm-introduce-get_task_exe_file.patch queue-4.4/audit-fix-exe_file-access-in-audit_exe_compare.patch