linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.19 21/57] proc: dont allow async path resolution of /proc/self components

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Date:   Tue, 2 Mar 2021 10:39:08 -0700
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        yangerkun <yangerkun@...wei.com>,
        Cheng Jian <cj.chengjian@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 21/57] proc: dont allow async path resolution of
 /proc/self components

On 3/2/21 1:40 AM, Yang Yingliang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2020/12/1 16:53, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> From: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 8d4c3e76e3be11a64df95ddee52e99092d42fc19 ]
>>
>> If this is attempted by a kthread, then return -EOPNOTSUPP as we don't
>> currently support that. Once we can get task_pid_ptr() doing the right
>> thing, then this can go away again.
> 
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/io-uring/msg05297.html
> 
> This patch seems used for io-wq worker which is merged in
> 
> v5.5-rc1, why we need this in linux-4.19.y ?

While that's true, it's also a sane safeguard in general.

-- 
Jens Axboe