Merged 'Infrastructure to allow fixing exec deadlocks' from Bernd Edlinger
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:07:09 +0000 (10:07 -0500)
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:07:09 +0000 (10:07 -0500)
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withdrawn.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      kernel: doc: remove outdated comment cred.c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>

Trivial merge