[PATCH] Fix UTS corruption during clone(CLONE_NEWUTS)

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Fri Sep 14 2007 - 10:57:54 EST


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 <adobriyan@xxxxx>
---

kernel/utsname.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- 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;
}

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