linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull proc and exec work for 5.7-rc1

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Date:   Tue, 28 Apr 2020 21:08:37 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Cc:     Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@...mail.de>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull proc and exec work for 5.7-rc1

On 04/28, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 7:56 PM Bernd Edlinger
> <bernd.edlinger@...mail.de> wrote:
> >
> > was this resolved meanwhile?
>
> No. I think the tentative plan is to just apply Oleg's "don't wait for
> zombie threads with cred_guard_mutex held" patch, hopefully with that
> de_thread() moved into install_exec_creds() (right after the dropping
> of the locks).

Oops. I can update that old patch but somehow I thought there is a better
plan which I don't yet understand...

And, IIRC, Jan had some ideas how to rework the new creds calculation in
execve paths to avoid the cred_guard_mutex deadlock?

Oleg.