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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -mm] sys_unshare: simplify the not-really-implemented CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM code
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:08:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100323170816.GA20809@redhat.com> (raw)

(on top of check_unshare_flags-kill-the-bogus-clone_sighand-sig-count-check.patch)

Cleanup.

sys_unshare(CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM) is not really implemented, and I doubt
very much it will ever work. At least, nobody even tried since the original
"unshare system call -v5: system call handler function" commit
99d1419d96d7df9cfa56bc977810be831bd5ef64 was applied more than 4 years ago.

And the code is not consistent. unshare_thread() always fails unconditionally,
while unshare_sighand() and unshare_vm() pretend to work if there is nothing
to unshare.

Remove unshare_thread(), unshare_sighand(), unshare_vm() helpers and related
variables and add a simple CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_SIGHAND| CLONE_VM check into
check_unshare_flags().

Also, move the "CLONE_NEWNS needs CLONE_FS" check from check_unshare_flags()
to sys_unshare(). This looks more consistent and matches the similar
do_sysvsem check in sys_unshare().

Note: with or without this patch "atomic_read(mm->mm_users) > 1" can give
a false positive due to get_task_mm().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---

 kernel/fork.c |  119 ++++++++++++----------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)

--- 34-rc1/kernel/fork.c~UNSHARE_KILL_THE_BOGUS_CODE	2010-03-21 19:08:06.000000000 +0100
+++ 34-rc1/kernel/fork.c	2010-03-23 17:54:27.000000000 +0100
@@ -1500,38 +1500,24 @@ void __init proc_caches_init(void)
 }
 
 /*
- * Check constraints on flags passed to the unshare system call and
- * force unsharing of additional process context as appropriate.
+ * Check constraints on flags passed to the unshare system call.
  */
-static void check_unshare_flags(unsigned long *flags_ptr)
+static int check_unshare_flags(unsigned long unshare_flags)
 {
+	if (unshare_flags & ~(CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_FS|CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_SIGHAND|
+				CLONE_VM|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SYSVSEM|
+				CLONE_NEWUTS|CLONE_NEWIPC|CLONE_NEWNET))
+		return -EINVAL;
 	/*
-	 * If unsharing a thread from a thread group, must also
-	 * unshare vm.
-	 */
-	if (*flags_ptr & CLONE_THREAD)
-		*flags_ptr |= CLONE_VM;
-
-	/*
-	 * If unsharing vm, must also unshare signal handlers.
-	 */
-	if (*flags_ptr & CLONE_VM)
-		*flags_ptr |= CLONE_SIGHAND;
-
-	/*
-	 * If unsharing namespace, must also unshare filesystem information.
+	 * Not implemented, but pretend it works if there is nothing to
+	 * unshare. Note that unsharing CLONE_THREAD or CLONE_SIGHAND
+	 * needs to unshare vm.
 	 */
-	if (*flags_ptr & CLONE_NEWNS)
-		*flags_ptr |= CLONE_FS;
-}
-
-/*
- * Unsharing of tasks created with CLONE_THREAD is not supported yet
- */
-static int unshare_thread(unsigned long unshare_flags)
-{
-	if (unshare_flags & CLONE_THREAD)
-		return -EINVAL;
+	if (unshare_flags & (CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_VM)) {
+		/* FIXME: get_task_mm() increments ->mm_users */
+		if (atomic_read(&current->mm->mm_users) > 1)
+			return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -1558,34 +1544,6 @@ static int unshare_fs(unsigned long unsh
 }
 
 /*
- * Unsharing of sighand is not supported yet
- */
-static int unshare_sighand(unsigned long unshare_flags, struct sighand_struct **new_sighp)
-{
-	struct sighand_struct *sigh = current->sighand;
-
-	if ((unshare_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND) && atomic_read(&sigh->count) > 1)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	else
-		return 0;
-}
-
-/*
- * Unshare vm if it is being shared
- */
-static int unshare_vm(unsigned long unshare_flags, struct mm_struct **new_mmp)
-{
-	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
-
-	if ((unshare_flags & CLONE_VM) &&
-	    (mm && atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1)) {
-		return -EINVAL;
-	}
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
-/*
  * Unshare file descriptor table if it is being shared
  */
 static int unshare_fd(unsigned long unshare_flags, struct files_struct **new_fdp)
@@ -1613,45 +1571,37 @@ static int unshare_fd(unsigned long unsh
  */
 SYSCALL_DEFINE1(unshare, unsigned long, unshare_flags)
 {
-	int err = 0;
 	struct fs_struct *fs, *new_fs = NULL;
-	struct sighand_struct *new_sigh = NULL;
-	struct mm_struct *mm, *new_mm = NULL, *active_mm = NULL;
 	struct files_struct *fd, *new_fd = NULL;
 	struct nsproxy *new_nsproxy = NULL;
 	int do_sysvsem = 0;
+	int err;
 
-	check_unshare_flags(&unshare_flags);
-
-	/* Return -EINVAL for all unsupported flags */
-	err = -EINVAL;
-	if (unshare_flags & ~(CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_FS|CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_SIGHAND|
-				CLONE_VM|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SYSVSEM|
-				CLONE_NEWUTS|CLONE_NEWIPC|CLONE_NEWNET))
+	err = check_unshare_flags(unshare_flags);
+	if (err)
 		goto bad_unshare_out;
 
 	/*
+	 * If unsharing namespace, must also unshare filesystem information.
+	 */
+	if (unshare_flags & CLONE_NEWNS)
+		unshare_flags |= CLONE_FS;
+	/*
 	 * CLONE_NEWIPC must also detach from the undolist: after switching
 	 * to a new ipc namespace, the semaphore arrays from the old
 	 * namespace are unreachable.
 	 */
 	if (unshare_flags & (CLONE_NEWIPC|CLONE_SYSVSEM))
 		do_sysvsem = 1;
-	if ((err = unshare_thread(unshare_flags)))
-		goto bad_unshare_out;
 	if ((err = unshare_fs(unshare_flags, &new_fs)))
-		goto bad_unshare_cleanup_thread;
-	if ((err = unshare_sighand(unshare_flags, &new_sigh)))
-		goto bad_unshare_cleanup_fs;
-	if ((err = unshare_vm(unshare_flags, &new_mm)))
-		goto bad_unshare_cleanup_sigh;
+		goto bad_unshare_out;
 	if ((err = unshare_fd(unshare_flags, &new_fd)))
-		goto bad_unshare_cleanup_vm;
+		goto bad_unshare_cleanup_fs;
 	if ((err = unshare_nsproxy_namespaces(unshare_flags, &new_nsproxy,
 			new_fs)))
 		goto bad_unshare_cleanup_fd;
 
-	if (new_fs ||  new_mm || new_fd || do_sysvsem || new_nsproxy) {
+	if (new_fs || new_fd || do_sysvsem || new_nsproxy) {
 		if (do_sysvsem) {
 			/*
 			 * CLONE_SYSVSEM is equivalent to sys_exit().
@@ -1677,15 +1627,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(unshare, unsigned long, 
 			write_unlock(&fs->lock);
 		}
 
-		if (new_mm) {
-			mm = current->mm;
-			active_mm = current->active_mm;
-			current->mm = new_mm;
-			current->active_mm = new_mm;
-			activate_mm(active_mm, new_mm);
-			new_mm = mm;
-		}
-
 		if (new_fd) {
 			fd = current->files;
 			current->files = new_fd;
@@ -1702,20 +1643,10 @@ bad_unshare_cleanup_fd:
 	if (new_fd)
 		put_files_struct(new_fd);
 
-bad_unshare_cleanup_vm:
-	if (new_mm)
-		mmput(new_mm);
-
-bad_unshare_cleanup_sigh:
-	if (new_sigh)
-		if (atomic_dec_and_test(&new_sigh->count))
-			kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, new_sigh);
-
 bad_unshare_cleanup_fs:
 	if (new_fs)
 		free_fs_struct(new_fs);
 
-bad_unshare_cleanup_thread:
 bad_unshare_out:
 	return err;
 }


             reply	other threads:[~2010-03-23 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-23 17:08 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2010-03-23 21:02 ` [PATCH -mm] sys_unshare: simplify the not-really-implemented CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM code Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-23 23:05   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-31 23:53     ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-09 20:03 ` Roland McGrath

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