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Eric W. Biederman ccf0fa6be0 exec: Move exec_mmap right after de_thread in flush_old_exec
I have read through the code in exec_mmap and I do not see anything
that depends on sighand or the sighand lock, or on signals in anyway
so this should be safe.

This rearrangement of code has two significant benefits.  It makes
the determination of passing the point of no return by testing bprm->mm
accurate.  All failures prior to that point in flush_old_exec are
either truly recoverable or they are fatal.

Further this consolidates all of the possible indefinite waits for
userspace together at the top of flush_old_exec.  The possible wait
for a ptracer on PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT, the possible wait for a page fault
to be resolved in clear_child_tid, and the possible wait for a page
fault in exit_robust_list.

This consolidation allows the creation of a mutex to replace
cred_guard_mutex that is not held over possible indefinite userspace
waits.  Which will allow removing deadlock scenarios from the kernel.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reviewed-by: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2020-03-25 10:03:21 -05:00
arch uml: Create a private mount of proc for mconsole 2020-02-28 12:04:33 -06:00
block block-5.6-2020-02-05 2020-02-06 06:15:23 +00:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
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Documentation Minor bug fixes for IPMI 2020-02-16 13:05:46 -08:00
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include proc: Remove the now unnecessary internal mount of proc 2020-02-28 12:06:14 -06:00
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ipc proc: convert everything to "struct proc_ops" 2020-02-04 03:05:26 +00:00
kernel pid: Improve the comment about waiting in zap_pid_ns_processes 2020-02-28 16:29:12 -06:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.