Oleg Nesterov wrote:
On 08/08, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On 08/08, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
+void switch_task_namespaces(struct task_struct *p, struct nsproxy *new)
+{
+ struct nsproxy *ns;
+
+ might_sleep();
+
+ ns = p->nsproxy;
+ if (ns == new)
+ return;
+
+ if (new)
+ get_nsproxy(new);
+ rcu_assign_pointer(p->nsproxy, new);
+
+ if (ns && atomic_dec_and_test(&ns->count)) {
+ /*
+ * wait for others to get what they want from this
+ * nsproxy. cannot release this nsproxy via the
+ * call_rcu() since put_mnt_ns will want to sleep
+ */
+ synchronize_rcu();
+ free_nsproxy(ns);
+ }
+}
(I may be wrong, Paul cc'ed)
This is correct with the current implementation of RCU, but strictly speaking,
we can't use synchronize_rcu() here, because write_lock_irq() doesn't imply
rcu_read_lock() in theory.
void __lockfunc _write_lock(rwlock_t *lock)
{
preempt_disable();
rwlock_acquire(&lock->dep_map, 0, 0, _RET_IP_);
LOCK_CONTENDED(lock, _raw_write_trylock, _raw_write_lock);
}
preempt_disable == rcu_read_lock() due to
#define rcu_read_lock() \
do { \
preempt_disable(); \
__acquire(RCU); \
} while(0)
so currently this is enough to write_lock()
But we should be able to do:
write_lock_irq();
rcu_read_lock();
muck with other tasks nsproxy.
rcu_read_unlock();
write_unlock_irq();
Which would make rcu fine.
Yes sure. I just meant that the patch looks incomplete. But we didn't
hear Paul yet, perhaps I'm just wrong.
The real locking we have is that only a task is allowed to modify it's
own nsproxy pointer. Other processes are not.
The practical question is how do we enable other processes to read
a particular tasks nsproxy or something pointed to by it?
task_lock(). The only problem we can't take it in do_notify_parent(),
but if we add read_lock(tasklist) to sys_unshare, we can safely access
->parent->nsproxy.
we can safely access parent's nsproxy with this patch like this:
rcu_read_lock();
nsproxy = task_nsproxy(p->parent);
BUG_ON(nsproxy == NULL); /* parent should reparent us before exiting nsproxy */
pid_ns = nsproxy->pid_ns;
...
rcu_read_unlock();
Oleg.
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