Re: Kernel panic at Ubuntu: IMA + Apparmor

Oleg Nesterov
2014-04-25T19:25:58Z

On 04/25, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Eric, this makes me think again that we should do exit_task_namespaces()
> > after exit_task_work(). We already discussed this before, but this looks
> > like another indication this change makes sense.
>
> I know you mentioned something about that. I haven't actually had much
> time to think about it.
>
> > The problem with fput() from free_nsproxy() was hopefully also fixed by
> > e7b2c4069252. The main motivation for "move" was "outside of exit_notify".
> > Even if we fix the paths above task_work_add() can have another user which
> > wants ->nsproxy.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I am scratching my head. Delayed work that depends on current sort of
> blows my mind.

But task_work_add(task) was specially introduced to run a callback in the
task's context.

> That is utter nonsense.

Yes I agree, _perhaps_ we can fix this particular problem without changing
the exit_namespace/work ordering, and perhaps this makes sense anyway.

Well. I _think_ that __fput() and ima_file_free() in particular should not
depend on current and/or current->nsproxy. If nothing else, fput() can be
called by the unrelated task which looks into /proc/pid/.

But again, task_work_add() has more and more users, and it seems that even
__fput() paths can do "everything", so perhaps it would be safer to allow
to use ->nsproxy in task_work_run.

Oleg.