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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Adam Zabrocki <pi3@pi3.com.pl>,
	 Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	 Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
	Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,  Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	 Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] signal: Extend exec_id to 64bits
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 13:55:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wihrtjjSsF6mGc7wjrtVQ-pha9ZAeo1rQAeuO1hr+i1qw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhbvlyq7.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org>

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 1:50 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>
> I have updated the update of exec_id on exec to use WRITE_ONCE
> and the read of exec_id in do_notify_parent to use READ_ONCE
> to make it clear that there is no locking between these two
> locations.

Ack, makes sense to me.

Just put it in your branch, this doesn't look urgent, considering that
it's something that has been around forever.

            Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-01 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-24 21:50 Curiosity around 'exec_id' and some problems associated with it Adam Zabrocki
2020-03-29 22:43 ` Kees Cook
2020-03-30  8:34   ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-03-31  4:29   ` Adam Zabrocki
2020-04-01 20:47   ` [PATCH] signal: Extend exec_id to 64bits Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-01 20:55     ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2020-04-01 21:03       ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-01 23:37     ` Jann Horn
2020-04-01 23:51       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-01 23:55         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-02  1:35           ` Jann Horn
2020-04-02  2:05             ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-02 13:11               ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-02 18:06                 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-02  4:46     ` Jann Horn
2020-04-02 14:14       ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-03  2:11       ` Adam Zabrocki
2020-04-02  7:19     ` Kees Cook
2020-04-02  7:22     ` Bernd Edlinger

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