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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] rcu-tasks: Fix race against exiting pid_ns
On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 02:54:57PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Pengfei Xu has reported a deadlock involving calls to unshare(),
> perf_event_open() and clone3() calls. It requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN
> to reproduce (at least I don't see a way for a non privilege process to
> reproduce).
>
> See this thread for details: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y3sOgrOmMQqPMItu@xpf.sh.intel.com/
> And this document for the collaborative analysis with Boqun, Paul and Neeraj:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hJxgiZ5TMZ4YJkdJPLAkRvq7sYQ-A7svgA8no6i-v8k
>
> The two first patches are small improvements. The fix is in the last patch.
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git
> rcu/dev
>
> HEAD: 45ef5a0a4be4e0db9eadcc86e8f346d34c62e744

Hearing no objections, queued for further review and testing.

And thank you very much! That race between synchronize_rcu_tasks() and
zap_pid_ns_processes() certainly was more than a bit on the non-trivial
side. Good show!!!

Thanx, Paul

> Thanks,
> Frederic
> ---
>
> Frederic Weisbecker (3):
> rcu-tasks: Improve comments explaining tasks_rcu_exit_srcu purpose
> rcu-tasks: Remove preemption disablement around srcu_read_[un]lock() calls
> rcu-tasks: Fix synchronize_rcu_tasks() VS zap_pid_ns_processes()
>
>
> include/linux/rcupdate.h | 2 ++
> kernel/pid_namespace.c | 17 +++++++++++++++
> kernel/rcu/tasks.h | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> 3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

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