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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@att.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] exec: do not sleep in TASK_TRACED under ->cred_guard_mutex
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:47:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32710.1252075656@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090904133956.GA9232@redhat.com>

Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:

> 	- install_exec_creds() drops the mutex after commit_creds(),
> 	  and thus before tracehook_report_exec()->ptrace_stop().

Thanks!

> -
> -	/* cred_guard_mutex must be held at least to this point to prevent
> -	 * ptrace_attach() from altering our determination of the task's
> -	 * credentials; any time after this it may be unlocked */
> -

Why are you removing this comment, btw?  In what way does your patch
invalidate it?

David

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-04 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-03 16:05 [PATCH 1/1] exec: do not sleep in TASK_TRACED under ->cred_guard_mutex Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-03 20:09 ` Roland McGrath
2009-09-04  8:43   ` David Howells
2009-09-04 13:39   ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-04 14:47     ` David Howells [this message]
2009-09-04 15:49       ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-04 17:26         ` [PATCH v3] " Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-04 19:42           ` Andrew Morton
2009-09-04 21:33             ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-09 21:57               ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-09-09 22:58                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-04  8:39 ` [PATCH 1/1] " David Howells
2009-09-04  9:24   ` Roland McGrath
2009-09-04 12:46   ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-04 13:39     ` David Howells
2009-09-04 13:55       ` Oleg Nesterov

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