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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2020-03-25 10:03:36 -0500
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2020-03-25 10:03:36 -0500
commiteea9673250db4e854e9998ef9da6d4584857f0ea (patch)
treef39412bd0113424841a533b77cea5d2846d1162f /init
parentccf0fa6be02687868006fa0c85af32c40cae6fb6 (diff)
exec: Add exec_update_mutex to replace cred_guard_mutex
The cred_guard_mutex is problematic as it is held over possibly indefinite waits for userspace. The possible indefinite waits for userspace that I have identified are: The cred_guard_mutex is held in PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT waiting for the tracer. The cred_guard_mutex is held over "put_user(0, tsk->clear_child_tid)" in exit_mm(). The cred_guard_mutex is held over "get_user(futex_offset, ...") in exit_robust_list. The cred_guard_mutex held over copy_strings. The functions get_user and put_user can trigger a page fault which can potentially wait indefinitely in the case of userfaultfd or if userspace implements part of the page fault path. In any of those cases the userspace process that the kernel is waiting for might make a different system call that winds up taking the cred_guard_mutex and result in deadlock. Holding a mutex over any of those possibly indefinite waits for userspace does not appear necessary. Add exec_update_mutex that will just cover updating the process during exec where the permissions and the objects pointed to by the task struct may be out of sync. The plan is to switch the users of cred_guard_mutex to exec_update_mutex one by one. This lets us move forward while still being careful and not introducing any regressions. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20160921152946.GA24210@dhcp22.suse.cz/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/AM6PR03MB5170B06F3A2B75EFB98D071AE4E60@AM6PR03MB5170.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20161102181806.GB1112@redhat.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20160923095031.GA14923@redhat.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170213141452.GA30203@redhat.com/ Ref: 45c1a159b85b ("Add PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE and PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT facilities.") Ref: 456f17cd1a28 ("[PATCH] user-vm-unlock-2.5.31-A2") Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/init_task.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init/init_task.c b/init/init_task.c
index 9e5cbe5eab7b..bd403ed3e418 100644
--- a/init/init_task.c
+++ b/init/init_task.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ static struct signal_struct init_signals = {
.multiprocess = HLIST_HEAD_INIT,
.rlim = INIT_RLIMITS,
.cred_guard_mutex = __MUTEX_INITIALIZER(init_signals.cred_guard_mutex),
+ .exec_update_mutex = __MUTEX_INITIALIZER(init_signals.exec_update_mutex),
#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS
.posix_timers = LIST_HEAD_INIT(init_signals.posix_timers),
.cputimer = {