From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] procfs: Do not release pid_ns->proc_mnt too early
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:27:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100618162734.GB7404@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100618082738.GE16877@hawkmoon.kerlabs.com>
On 06/18, Louis Rilling wrote:
>
> On 17/06/10 23:36 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 06/17, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > >
> > > The task->children isn't changed until __unhash_process() which runs
> > > after flush_proc_task().
> >
> > Yes. But this is only the current implementation detail.
> > It would be nice to cleanup the code so that EXIT_DEAD tasks are
> > never sit in ->children list.
> >
> > > So we should be able to come up with
> > > a variant of do_wait() that zap_pid_ns_processes can use that does
> > > what we need.
> >
> > See above...
> >
> > Even if we modify do_wait() or add the new variant, how the caller
> > can wait for EXIT_DEAD tasks? I don't think we want to modify
> > release_task() to do __wake_up_parent() or something similar.
>
> Indeed, I was thinking about calling __wake_up_parent() from release_task()
> once parent->children becomes empty.
>
> Not sure about the performance impact though. Maybe some WAIT_NO_CHILDREN flag
> in parent->signal could limit it. But if EXIT_DEAD children are removed from
> ->children before release_task(), I'm afraid that this becomes impossible.
Thinking more, even the current do_wait() from zap_pid_ns_processes()
is not really good. Suppose that some none-init thread is ptraced, then
zap_pid_ns_processes() will hange until the tracer does do_wait() or
exits.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-18 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-16 16:34 [PATCH] procfs: Do not release pid_ns->proc_mnt too early Louis Rilling
2010-06-17 9:53 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-06-17 13:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-17 14:20 ` Louis Rilling
2010-06-17 21:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-18 8:27 ` Louis Rilling
2010-06-18 16:27 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2010-06-21 11:11 ` Louis Rilling
2010-06-21 12:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-21 14:15 ` Louis Rilling
2010-06-21 14:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-17 21:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-18 8:20 ` Louis Rilling
2010-06-18 11:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-18 16:08 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-18 17:33 ` Louis Rilling
2010-06-18 17:55 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-18 21:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-19 19:08 ` [PATCH 0/4] pid_ns_prepare_proc/unshare cleanups Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-19 19:09 ` [PATCH 1/4] procfs: proc_get_sb: consolidate/cleanup root_inode->pid logic Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-19 19:10 ` [PATCH 2/4] procfs: kill the global proc_mnt variable Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-19 19:10 ` [PATCH 3/4] procfs: move pid_ns_prepare_proc() from copy_process() to create_pid_namespace() Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-19 19:11 ` [PATCH RESEND 4/4] sys_unshare: simplify the not-really-implemented CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM code Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-20 8:42 ` [PATCH 0/6] Unshare support for the pid namespace Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-20 8:44 ` [PATCH 1/6] pid: Remove the child_reaper special case in init/main.c Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-20 18:29 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-20 20:27 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-20 8:45 ` [PATCH 2/6] pidns: Call pid_ns_prepare_proc from create_pid_namespace Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-20 18:19 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-20 8:45 ` [PATCH 3/6] procfs: kill the global proc_mnt variable Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-20 8:47 ` [PATCH 4/6] pidns: Don't allow new pids after the namespace is dead Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-20 18:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-20 8:48 ` [PATCH 5/6] pidns: Use task_active_pid_ns where appropriate Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-20 8:49 ` [PATCH 6/6] pidns: Support unsharing the pid namespace Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-20 20:14 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-20 20:42 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-21 1:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-20 18:03 ` [PATCH 0/6] Unshare support for " Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-20 18:05 ` [PATCH 0/2] pid_ns_release_proc() fixes Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-20 18:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] pid_ns: move destroy_pid_namespace() into workqueue context Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-20 18:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] pid_ns: refactor the buggy pid_ns_release_proc() logic Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-20 21:00 ` [PATCH 0/6] Unshare support for the pid namespace Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-20 21:48 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-20 21:56 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-01-26 15:57 ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-06-23 20:36 ` [PATCH 0/1] pid_ns: move pid_ns_release_proc() from proc_flush_task() to zap_pid_ns_processes() Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-23 20:37 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-24 6:36 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-06-24 12:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-24 7:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-24 13:01 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-24 8:37 ` [PATCH] pid_ns: Fix proc_flush_task() accessing freed proc_mnt Louis Rilling
2010-06-24 17:08 ` [RESEND PATCH] " Louis Rilling
2010-06-24 19:18 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-25 10:23 ` Louis Rilling
2010-06-25 12:21 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-25 18:37 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-06-25 19:29 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-25 21:26 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-06-25 21:27 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-25 22:07 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-07-09 4:36 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/2] pidns: Add a flag to indicate a pid namespace is dead Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-09 4:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/2] pidns: Remove proc flush races when a pid namespaces are exiting Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-09 12:14 ` Louis Rilling
2010-07-09 13:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-09 14:13 ` Louis Rilling
2010-07-09 15:58 ` [PATCH 01/24] pidns: Remove races by stopping the caching of proc_mnt Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-09 22:13 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-07-11 14:14 ` Louis Rilling
2010-07-11 14:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-12 18:09 ` [PATCH] pidns: Fix wait for zombies to be reaped in zap_pid_ns_processes Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-13 21:42 ` Louis Rilling
2010-07-13 22:34 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-07-14 1:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-10-30 7:07 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-07-14 20:53 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-07-14 21:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-21 11:09 ` [PATCH] procfs: Do not release pid_ns->proc_mnt too early Louis Rilling
2010-06-21 11:15 ` Louis Rilling
2010-06-21 14:38 ` Oleg Nesterov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-06-16 15:58 Louis Rilling
2010-06-16 16:04 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-06-16 16:15 ` Louis Rilling
2010-06-16 16:16 ` Louis Rilling
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