Re: [PATCH 0/3] exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore

Waiman Long
2020-12-04T01:58:09Z

On 12/3/20 5:42 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 12:10 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>> The simplest and most robust solution appears to be making
>> exec_update_mutex a read/write lock and having everything execept for
>> exec take the lock for read.
> Looks sane to me.
>
> I'd like the locking people to look at the down_read_*() functions,
> even if they look simple. Adding Waiman and Davidlohr to the cc just
> in case they would look at that too, since they've worked on that
> code.

I have looked at patches 1 & 2 on adding down_read_killable_nested() and
down_read_interruptible(). They looks good to me.

Cheers,
Longman