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authorSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>2007-01-29 13:19:40 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-01-30 08:26:44 -0800
commit7a238fcba0629b6f2edbcd37458bae56fcf36be5 (patch)
treead556f0ec00637df5b4c4a2063c6b3325666d2f1 /kernel/nsproxy.c
parentc0d4d573feed199b16094c072e7cb07afb01c598 (diff)
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[PATCH] namespaces: fix exit race by splitting exit
Fix exit race by splitting the nsproxy putting into two pieces. First piece reduces the nsproxy refcount. If we dropped the last reference, then it puts the mnt_ns, and returns the nsproxy as a hint to the caller. Else it returns NULL. The second piece of exiting task namespaces sets tsk->nsproxy to NULL, and drops the references to other namespaces and frees the nsproxy only if an nsproxy was passed in. A little awkward and should probably be reworked, but hopefully it fixes the NFS oops. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel@hozac.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/nsproxy.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/nsproxy.c16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/nsproxy.c b/kernel/nsproxy.c
index f5b9ee6f6bbb..7b05bce75cde 100644
--- a/kernel/nsproxy.c
+++ b/kernel/nsproxy.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ int copy_namespaces(int flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
goto out_pid;
out:
- put_nsproxy(old_ns);
+ put_and_finalize_nsproxy(old_ns);
return err;
out_pid:
@@ -135,6 +135,20 @@ out_ns:
goto out;
}
+struct nsproxy *put_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
+{
+ if (ns) {
+ if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ns->count)) {
+ if (ns->mnt_ns) {
+ put_mnt_ns(ns->mnt_ns);
+ ns->mnt_ns = NULL;
+ }
+ return ns;
+ }
+ }
+ return NULL;
+}
+
void free_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
{
if (ns->mnt_ns)