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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux ARM Mailing List <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com>, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>,
	Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>,
	Muralidharan Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] initramfs: finish fput() before accessing any binary from initramfs
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 12:28:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170201122838.GC27291@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170124053636.30121-1-lokeshvutla@ti.com>

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:06:36AM +0530, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
> commit 4a9d4b024a31 ("switch fput to task_work_add") implements a
> schedule_work() for completing fput(), but did not guarantee calling
> __fput() after unpacking initramfs. Because of this, there is a
> possibility that during boot a driver can see ETXTBSY when it tries
> to load a binary from initramfs as fput() is still pending on that
> binary. This patch makes sure that fput() is completed after unpacking
> initramfs.

Umm...  Do we want it done in kernel_init(), then?  I have no objections
against calling it in populate_rootfs(), and it looks like a sane place
for that, but I wonder if the old callsite would remain needed after that...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-01 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-24  5:36 [PATCH v2] initramfs: finish fput() before accessing any binary from initramfs Lokesh Vutla
2017-02-01  9:24 ` Lokesh Vutla
2017-02-01 12:28 ` Al Viro [this message]
2017-02-01 13:45   ` Lokesh Vutla

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