Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull proc and exec work for 5.7-rc1

Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-07T20:29:49Z

On 4/7/20 9:50 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 3:20 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>>
>> But fundamentally the only reason we need this information stable
>> before the point of no return is so that we can return a nice error
>> code to the process calling exec. Instead of terminating the
>> process with SIGSEGV.
>
> I'd suggest doing it the other way around instead: let the thread that
> does the security_setprocattr() die, since execve() is terminating
> other threads anyway.
>
> And the easy way to do that is to just make the rule be that anybody
> who waits for this thing for write needs to use a killable wait.
>
> So if the execve() got started earlier, and already took the cred lock
> (whatever we'll call it) for reading, then zap_other_threads() will
> take care of another thread doing setprocattr().
>
> That sounds like a really simple model, no?
>

Maybe, actually I considered this, but I was anxious that making something
that is so far not killable suddenly killable might break other things.

But I am a wimp :-)

Bernd.

> Linus
>