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Eric W. Biederman 4b871ce26a Merged 'Infrastructure to allow fixing exec deadlocks' from Bernd Edlinger
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withdrawn.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      kernel: doc: remove outdated comment cred.c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>
History 2020-03-25 10:07:09 -05:00
arch uml: Create a private mount of proc for mconsole 2020-02-28 12:04:33 -06:00
block block-5.6-2020-02-05 2020-02-06 06:15:23 +00:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto s390 updates for 5.6-rc2 2020-02-15 13:10:38 -08:00
Documentation Minor bug fixes for IPMI 2020-02-16 13:05:46 -08:00
drivers Minor bug fixes for IPMI 2020-02-16 13:05:46 -08:00
fs proc: io_accounting: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve 2020-03-25 10:04:01 -05:00
include exec: Add exec_update_mutex to replace cred_guard_mutex 2020-03-25 10:03:36 -05:00
init exec: Add exec_update_mutex to replace cred_guard_mutex 2020-03-25 10:03:36 -05:00
ipc proc: convert everything to "struct proc_ops" 2020-02-04 03:05:26 +00:00
kernel pidfd: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve 2020-03-25 10:04:01 -05:00
lib Various fixes: 2020-02-11 16:39:18 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm: docs: Fix a comment in process_vm_rw_core 2020-03-25 10:04:01 -05:00
net NFS Client Bugfixes for Linux 5.6-rc2 2020-02-14 14:46:11 -08:00
samples Kbuild updates for v5.6 (2nd) 2020-02-09 16:05:50 -08:00
scripts kbuild: fix mismatch between .version and include/generated/compile.h 2020-02-11 05:18:40 +09:00
security selinux/stable-5.6 PR 20200210 2020-02-10 16:51:35 -08:00
sound ALSA: pcm: Fix double hw_free calls 2020-02-13 16:30:22 +01:00
tools selftests/ptrace: add test cases for dead-locks 2020-03-25 10:04:01 -05:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.6 (2nd) 2020-02-09 16:05:50 -08:00
virt KVM: Disable preemption in kvm_get_running_vcpu() 2020-02-12 12:19:35 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file 2019-11-11 20:10:01 +09:00
.mailmap A handful of small documentation fixes that wandered in. 2020-02-07 13:03:10 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS open: introduce openat2(2) syscall 2020-01-18 09:19:18 -05:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Sort entries in database for GPIO 2020-02-10 10:55:18 +01:00
Makefile Linux 5.6-rc2 2020-02-16 13:16:59 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.