From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] fs: clear file privilege bits when mmap writing
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 21:56:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151210215648.GG20997@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jLAK8SYDcrCbJhb4jRtLVW9xjaNi-k68-QV-8_FqZrdqA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 01:45:09PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > but generally you need ->f_lock. And in situations where the bit can
> > go only off->on, check it lockless, skip the whole thing entirely if it's
> > already set and grab the spinlock otherwise.
>
> And I can take f_lock safely under mmap_sem?
Are you asking whether it's safe to take a spinlock under an rwsem?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-10 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-09 22:51 [PATCH v5] fs: clear file privilege bits when mmap writing Kees Cook
2015-12-10 1:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-12-10 3:25 ` Kees Cook
2015-12-10 4:14 ` Al Viro
2015-12-10 7:06 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-12-10 7:10 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-12-10 18:05 ` Kees Cook
2015-12-10 18:16 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-12-10 18:18 ` Kees Cook
2015-12-10 19:33 ` Al Viro
2015-12-10 19:47 ` Kees Cook
2015-12-10 20:27 ` Al Viro
2015-12-10 21:45 ` Kees Cook
2015-12-10 21:56 ` Al Viro [this message]
2015-12-10 22:00 ` Kees Cook
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2015-12-10 22:33 Kees Cook
2016-01-07 19:36 ` Kees Cook
2016-01-08 0:30 ` Andy Lutomirski
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