linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] exec: do not sleep in TASK_TRACED under ->cred_guard

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Message-ID: <20090904213337.GA5021@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 4 Sep 2009 23:33:37 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, dhowells@...hat.com,
	roland@...hat.com, jmorris@...ei.org, tom.horsley@....net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] exec: do not sleep in TASK_TRACED under
	->cred_guard_mutex

On 09/04, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 19:26:48 +0200
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> > Tom Horsley reports that his debugger hangs when it tries to read
> > /proc/pid_of_tracee/maps, this happens since
> >
> > 	"mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec"
> > 	04b836cbf19e885f8366bccb2e4b0474346c02d
> >
> > commit in 2.6.31.
>
> I get a reject in binfmts.h because your kernel has `extern void
> set_binfmt' and mine has `extern int set_binfmt'.

Ah, I have exec-fix-set_binfmt-vs-sys_delete_module-race.patch from -mm
applied...

> Hopefully this patch works OK in mainline as well as in whatever kernel
> you tested against!

Yes I tried to test it ;)

> I see a Cc:stable in the mail headers, but not in the changelog.  I
> don't think the patch is applicable to -stable unless we miss 2.6.31.

-stable has the same problems but I agree, it can live without this fix.

Oleg.

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