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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] namespace:unmount pid_namespace's proc_mnt when copy_net_ns failed
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 01:54:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqy4fkqx.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5093773B.5010706@cn.fujitsu.com> (Gao feng's message of "Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:33:15 +0800")

Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> writes:

> 于 2012年11月02日 15:02, Eric W. Biederman 写道:
>> Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> writes:
>> 
>>> we should call pid_ns_release_proc to unmount pid_namespace's
>>> proc_mnt when copy_net_ns failed in function create_new_namespaces.
>>>
>>> otherwise,the proc_mnt will not be freed and because the super_block
>>> of proc_mnt also add the reference of the pid_namespace,so this
>>> pid_namespace will never be released too.
>> 
>> Ouch!
>> 
>> Have you encountered this failure in practice or is this just from
>> review?
>
> I add some printk in pid_ns_release_proc,it's not called in above case.
> when copy_net_ns failed,this pid_namespace is not used by any task,
> so proc_flush_task can't call pid_ns_release_proc to umount this pidns->proc_mnt.
> it's the only chance we can unmount this pindns->proc_mnt.
>
> With this patch,everything runs well.

I have reviewed the code and I don't doubt that this is necessary.

What caused you to look into this failure?  Is there some semi-practical
real world case that someone is hitting?

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-02  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-02  0:38 [PATCH] namespace:unmount pid_namespace's proc_mnt when copy_net_ns failed Gao feng
2012-11-02  7:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-02  7:33   ` Gao feng
2012-11-02  8:54     ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2012-11-02  9:02       ` Gao feng
2012-11-02  9:10         ` Eric W. Biederman

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