From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB1C0C10F27 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2020 19:05:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A950722522 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2020 19:05:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727771AbgCITFC (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2020 15:05:02 -0400 Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:40768 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727652AbgCITE6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2020 15:04:58 -0400 Received: from in01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.51]) by out02.mta.xmission.com with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jBNhv-00065N-Ol; Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:04:55 -0600 Received: from ip68-227-160-95.om.om.cox.net ([68.227.160.95] helo=x220.xmission.com) by in01.mta.xmission.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1jBNhu-0005s2-W6; Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:04:55 -0600 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Bernd Edlinger Cc: Christian Brauner , Kees Cook , Jann Horn , Jonathan Corbet , Alexander Viro , Andrew Morton , Alexey Dobriyan , Thomas Gleixner , Oleg Nesterov , Frederic Weisbecker , Andrei Vagin , Ingo Molnar , "Peter Zijlstra \(Intel\)" , Yuyang Du , David Hildenbrand , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Anshuman Khandual , David Howells , James Morris , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Shakeel Butt , Jason Gunthorpe , Christian Kellner , Andrea Arcangeli , Aleksa Sarai , "Dmitry V. Levin" , "linux-doc\@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-fsdevel\@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm\@kvack.org" , "stable\@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-api\@vger.kernel.org" References: <87v9nlii0b.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87a74xi4kz.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87r1y8dqqz.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87tv32cxmf.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87v9ne5y4y.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87zhcq4jdj.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <878sk94eay.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87r1y12yc7.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87k13t2xpd.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87d09l2x5n.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 14:02:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Bernd Edlinger's message of "Mon, 9 Mar 2020 18:47:33 +0000") Message-ID: <871rq12vxu.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-XM-SPF: eid=1jBNhu-0005s2-W6;;;mid=<871rq12vxu.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>;;;hst=in01.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=68.227.160.95;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX18S4RLnaCZ2goJeyc5+GuAfviIHWA/XA+E= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 68.227.160.95 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] exec: Add a exec_update_mutex to replace cred_guard_mutex X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 05 May 2016 13:38:54 -0600) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in01.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bernd Edlinger writes: > On 3/9/20 7:36 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> >> Does that sound better? >> > > almost done. I think this text is finally clean. exec: Add exec_update_mutex to replace cred_guard_mutex The cred_guard_mutex is problematic as it is held over possibly indefinite waits for userspace. The possilbe indefinite waits for userspace that I have identified are: The cred_guard_mutex is held in PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT waiting for the tracer. The cred_guard_mutex is held over "put_user(0, tsk->clear_child_tid)" in exit_mm(). The cred_guard_mutex is held over "get_user(futex_offset, ...") in exit_robust_list. The cred_guard_mutex held over copy_strings. The functions get_user and put_user can trigger a page fault which can potentially wait indefinitely in the case of userfaultfd or if userspace implements part of the page fault path. In any of those cases the userspace process that the kernel is waiting for might make a different system call that winds up taking the cred_guard_mutex and result in deadlock. Holding a mutex over any of those possibly indefinite waits for userspace does not appear necessary. Add exec_update_mutex that will just cover updating the process during exec where the permissions and the objects pointed to by the task struct may be out of sync. The plan is to switch the users of cred_guard_mutex to exec_update_mutex one by one. This lets us move forward while still being careful and not introducing any regressions. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20160921152946.GA24210@dhcp22.suse.cz/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/AM6PR03MB5170B06F3A2B75EFB98D071AE4E60@AM6PR03MB5170.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20161102181806.GB1112@redhat.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20160923095031.GA14923@redhat.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170213141452.GA30203@redhat.com/ Ref: 45c1a159b85b ("Add PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE and PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT facilities.") Ref: 456f17cd1a28 ("[PATCH] user-vm-unlock-2.5.31-A2") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Bernd do you want to give me your Reviewed-by for this part of the series? After that do you think you can write the obvious patch for mm_access? I will apply these changes to my tree and push them into linux-next. Eric