* [PATCH] landlock: Yield if unable to acquire exec_update_lock
@ 2026-03-03 17:43 Justin Suess
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From: Justin Suess @ 2026-03-03 17:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-security-module, Yihan Ding
Cc: Mickaël Salaün, Günther Noack, Tingmao Wang,
Justin Suess, Günther Noack
Instead of returning -ERESTARTNOINTR when there is no pending
signal, run the pending tasks in the current thread and yield
until the exec_update_lock can be acquired.
This allows other tasks to run and allows the lock contention
to resolve in the kernel's task scheduler.
Cc: Yihan Ding <dingyihan@uniontech.com>
Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
Fixes: 3d6327c306b3 ("landlock: Serialize TSYNC thread restriction")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-security-module/aacKOr1wywSSOAVv@suesslenovo/
Signed-off-by: Justin Suess <utilityemal77@gmail.com>
---
Notes:
This fixes the failure in tsync_test.competing_enablement:
landlock: tsync trylock busy pid=1263 tgid=1261
landlock: landlock: restrict_self tsync err pid=1263 tgid=1261 err=-513 flags=0x8 ruleset_fd=6
# tsync_test.c:156:competing_enablement:Expected 0 (0) == d[1].result (-1)
# competing_enablement: Test failed
# FAIL global.competing_enablement
not ok 4 global.competing_enablement
The test passes after applying this patch.
security/landlock/tsync.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/landlock/tsync.c b/security/landlock/tsync.c
index 956a64cb6945..83938849620f 100644
--- a/security/landlock/tsync.c
+++ b/security/landlock/tsync.c
@@ -487,10 +487,14 @@ int landlock_restrict_sibling_threads(const struct cred *old_cred,
/*
* Serialize concurrent TSYNC operations to prevent deadlocks when multiple
- * threads call landlock_restrict_self() simultaneously.
+ * threads call landlock_restrict_self() simultaneously. If we are unable to
+ * acquire the lock, we yield nicely and retry.
*/
- if (!down_write_trylock(¤t->signal->exec_update_lock))
- return -ERESTARTNOINTR;
+ while (!down_write_trylock(¤t->signal->exec_update_lock)) {
+ if (task_work_pending(current))
+ task_work_run();
+ cond_resched();
+ }
/*
* We schedule a pseudo-signal task_work for each of the calling task's
base-commit: 8ff74a72b8af3672beca7f6b6b72557a9db94382
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2.51.0
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