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

Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-30T14:29:54Z

Hi Linus,

On 4/30/20 3:47 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 6:39 AM Bernd Edlinger
> <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de> wrote:
>>
>> Excuse me, but what in my /proc folder there is no attr/something
>> is there a procfs equivalent of pthread_attach ?
>>
>> What exactly is "attr/something" ?
>
> Anything that uses that proc_pid_attr_write().
>
> Which you should have realized, since you wrote the patch that changed
> that function to return -EAGAIN.
>

Ah, now I see, that was of course not the intended effect,
but that is not where the pseudo-deadlock happens at all,
would returning -RESTARTNOINTR in this function make this
patch acceptable, it will not have an effect on the test case?

Bernd.

> That's
>
> /proc/<pid>/attr/{current,exec,fscreate,keycreate,prev,sockcreate}
>
> and some smack files.
>
> Your patch definitely made them return -EINVAL if they happen in that
> execve() black hole, instead of waiting for the execve() to just
> complete and then just work.
>
> Dropping a lock really is broken. It';s broken even if you then set a
> flag saying "I dropped the lock, now you can't use it".
>
> Linus
>