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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk,
	keescook@chromium.org, mhocko@suse.cz, snanda@chromium.org,
	dserrg@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] check_unsafe_exec: use while_each_thread() rather than next_thread()
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 21:24:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131122202412.GA19563@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528FB3B4.3030303@jp.fujitsu.com>

On 11/22, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>
> (11/22/2013 12:54 PM), Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > next_thread() should be avoided, change check_unsafe_exec()
> > to use while_each_thread(). This also saves 32 bytes.
>
> Just curious.
> Why it should be avoided? Just for cleaner code?

Nobody except signal->curr_target actually need next_thread-like
code, and

> Or is there
> serious issue?

We need to change (fix) this interface. This particular code is
fine, p == current. But in general the code like this can loop
forever if p exits and next_thread(t) can't reach the unhashed
thread.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-22 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-22 17:54 [PATCH 0/4] in_exec/etc cleanups Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-22 17:54 ` [PATCH 1/4] check_unsafe_exec: use while_each_thread() rather than next_thread() Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-22 19:42   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-11-22 20:24     ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2013-11-22 20:32       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-11-22 17:54 ` [PATCH 2/4] check_unsafe_exec: kill the dead -EAGAIN and clear_in_exec logic Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-22 20:27   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-11-22 20:49     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-22 21:00       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-11-23 15:32         ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-22 17:54 ` [PATCH 3/4] exec: move the final allow_write_access/fput into free_bprm() Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-22 20:29   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-11-23 19:22   ` Kees Cook
2013-11-22 17:54 ` [PATCH 4/4] kill task_struct->did_exec Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-22 19:46   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-11-22 20:33     ` [PATCH v2 " Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-22 20:33       ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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