[PATCH 0/3] rcu-tasks: Fix race against exiting pid_ns

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Fri Nov 25 2022 - 08:55:13 EST


Pengfei Xu has reported a deadlock involving calls to unshare(),
perf_event_open() and clone3() calls. It requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN
to reproduce (at least I don't see a way for a non privilege process to
reproduce).

See this thread for details: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y3sOgrOmMQqPMItu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
And this document for the collaborative analysis with Boqun, Paul and Neeraj:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hJxgiZ5TMZ4YJkdJPLAkRvq7sYQ-A7svgA8no6i-v8k

The two first patches are small improvements. The fix is in the last patch.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git
rcu/dev

HEAD: 45ef5a0a4be4e0db9eadcc86e8f346d34c62e744

Thanks,
Frederic
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Frederic Weisbecker (3):
rcu-tasks: Improve comments explaining tasks_rcu_exit_srcu purpose
rcu-tasks: Remove preemption disablement around srcu_read_[un]lock() calls
rcu-tasks: Fix synchronize_rcu_tasks() VS zap_pid_ns_processes()


include/linux/rcupdate.h | 2 ++
kernel/pid_namespace.c | 17 +++++++++++++++
kernel/rcu/tasks.h | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)