[PATCH 3.14 33/33] exit: call disassociate_ctty() before exit_task_namespaces()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-24T22:31:33Z

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

commit c39df5fa37b0623589508c95515b4aa1531c524e upstream.

Commit 8aac62706ada ("move exit_task_namespaces() outside of
exit_notify()") breaks pppd and the exiting service crashes the kernel:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
IP: ppp_register_channel+0x13/0x20 [ppp_generic]
Call Trace:
ppp_asynctty_open+0x12b/0x170 [ppp_async]
tty_ldisc_open.isra.2+0x27/0x60
tty_ldisc_hangup+0x1e3/0x220
__tty_hangup+0x2c4/0x440
disassociate_ctty+0x61/0x270
do_exit+0x7f2/0xa50

ppp_register_channel() needs ->net_ns and current->nsproxy == NULL.

Move disassociate_ctty() before exit_task_namespaces(), it doesn't make
sense to delay it after perf_event_exit_task() or cgroup_exit().

This also allows to use task_work_add() inside the (nontrivial) code
paths in disassociate_ctty().

Investigated by Peter Hurley.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/exit.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -791,6 +791,8 @@ void do_exit(long code)
exit_shm(tsk);
exit_files(tsk);
exit_fs(tsk);
+ if (group_dead)
+ disassociate_ctty(1);
exit_task_namespaces(tsk);
exit_task_work(tsk);
check_stack_usage();
@@ -806,13 +808,9 @@ void do_exit(long code)

cgroup_exit(tsk, 1);

- if (group_dead)
- disassociate_ctty(1);
-
module_put(task_thread_info(tsk)->exec_domain->module);

proc_exit_connector(tsk);
-
/*
* FIXME: do that only when needed, using sched_exit tracepoint
*/