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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2013-04-30 15:28:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-04-30 17:04:07 -0700
commite56fb2874015370e3b7f8d85051f6dce26051df9 (patch)
tree0820c06eb4a25daf65734412af139e98ac1649c8 /kernel/kexec.c
parent12eaaf309a798973d215f7f21aa5a67a760ed7c8 (diff)
exec: do not abuse ->cred_guard_mutex in threadgroup_lock()
threadgroup_lock() takes signal->cred_guard_mutex to ensure that thread_group_leader() is stable. This doesn't look nice, the scope of this lock in do_execve() is huge. And as Dave pointed out this can lead to deadlock, we have the following dependencies: do_execve: cred_guard_mutex -> i_mutex cgroup_mount: i_mutex -> cgroup_mutex attach_task_by_pid: cgroup_mutex -> cred_guard_mutex Change de_thread() to take threadgroup_change_begin() around the switch-the-leader code and change threadgroup_lock() to avoid ->cred_guard_mutex. Note that de_thread() can't sleep with ->group_rwsem held, this can obviously deadlock with the exiting leader if the writer is active, so it does threadgroup_change_end() before schedule(). Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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