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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2016-07-15 06:35:24 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-08-20 18:10:58 +0200 |
| commit | ffdc59dda08cddf1b8402c33e7d1e9a75f0ea749 (patch) | |
| tree | e1dee8ed865bb188ae02eb30ca19be877e48c79d /kernel | |
| parent | bc7db37cf45271a0ccf2e71a5417d18f9be4672d (diff) | |
cgroupns: Fix the locking in copy_cgroup_ns
commit 7bd8830875bfa380c68f390efbad893293749324 upstream.
If "clone(CLONE_NEWCGROUP...)" is called it results in a nice lockdep
valid splat.
In __cgroup_proc_write the lock ordering is:
cgroup_mutex -- through cgroup_kn_lock_live
cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem
In copy_process the guts of clone the lock ordering is:
cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem -- through threadgroup_change_begin
cgroup_mutex -- through copy_namespaces -- copy_cgroup_ns
lockdep reports some a different call chains for the first ordering of
cgroup_mutex and cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem but it is harder to trace.
This is most definitely deadlock potential under the right
circumstances.
Fix this by by skipping the cgroup_mutex and making the locking in
copy_cgroup_ns mirror the locking in cgroup_post_fork which also runs
during fork under the cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem.
Fixes: a79a908fd2b0 ("cgroup: introduce cgroup namespaces")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cgroup.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 75c0ff00aca6..5f01e00cffc4 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -6309,14 +6309,11 @@ struct cgroup_namespace *copy_cgroup_ns(unsigned long flags, if (!ns_capable(user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return ERR_PTR(-EPERM); - mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex); + /* It is not safe to take cgroup_mutex here */ spin_lock_irq(&css_set_lock); - cset = task_css_set(current); get_css_set(cset); - spin_unlock_irq(&css_set_lock); - mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex); new_ns = alloc_cgroup_ns(); if (IS_ERR(new_ns)) { |