This is an infrastructure change that makes way for fixing this issue.
Each patch was already posted previously so this is just a cleanup of
the original mailing list thread(s) which got out of control by now.
Everything started here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/AM6PR03MB5170B06F3A2B75EFB98D071AE4E60@AM6PR03MB5170.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com/
I added reviewed-by tags from the mailing list threads, except when
withdrawn.
It took a lot longer than expected to collect everything from the
mailinglist threads, since several commit messages have been infected
with typos, and they got fixed without a new patch version.
- Correct the point of no return.
- Add two new mutexes to replace cred_guard_mutex.
- Fix each use of cred_guard_mutex.
- Update documentation.
- Add a test case.
-- EWB Removed the last 2 patches they need more work
Bernd Edlinger (9):
exec: Fix a deadlock in strace
selftests/ptrace: add test cases for dead-locks
mm: docs: Fix a comment in process_vm_rw_core
kernel: doc: remove outdated comment cred.c
kernel/kcmp.c: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve
proc: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve
proc: io_accounting: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve
perf: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve
pidfd: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve
Eric W. Biederman (5):
exec: Only compute current once in flush_old_exec
exec: Factor unshare_sighand out of de_thread and call it separately
exec: Move cleanup of posix timers on exec out of de_thread
exec: Move exec_mmap right after de_thread in flush_old_exec
exec: Add exec_update_mutex to replace cred_guard_mutex
fs/exec.c | 78 +++++++++++++++++++---------
fs/proc/base.c | 10 ++--
include/linux/binfmts.h | 8 ++-
include/linux/sched/signal.h | 9 +++-
init/init_task.c | 1 +
kernel/cred.c | 2 -
kernel/events/core.c | 12 ++---
kernel/fork.c | 5 +-
kernel/kcmp.c | 8 +--
kernel/pid.c | 4 +-
mm/process_vm_access.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/ptrace/Makefile | 4 +-
tools/testing/selftests/ptrace/vmaccess.c | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
13 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>