On 04/28, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 7:56 PM Bernd Edlinger > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > was this resolved meanwhile? > > No. I think the tentative plan is to just apply Oleg's "don't wait for > zombie threads with cred_guard_mutex held" patch, hopefully with that > de_thread() moved into install_exec_creds() (right after the dropping > of the locks).
Oops. I can update that old patch but somehow I thought there is a better plan which I don't yet understand... And, IIRC, Jan had some ideas how to rework the new creds calculation in execve paths to avoid the cred_guard_mutex deadlock? Oleg.
