3.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> commit c39df5fa37b0623589508c95515b4aa1531c524e upstream. Commit 8aac62706ada ("move exit_task_namespaces() outside of exit_notify()") breaks pppd and the exiting service crashes the kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028 IP: ppp_register_channel+0x13/0x20 [ppp_generic] Call Trace: ppp_asynctty_open+0x12b/0x170 [ppp_async] tty_ldisc_open.isra.2+0x27/0x60 tty_ldisc_hangup+0x1e3/0x220 __tty_hangup+0x2c4/0x440 disassociate_ctty+0x61/0x270 do_exit+0x7f2/0xa50 ppp_register_channel() needs ->net_ns and current->nsproxy == NULL. Move disassociate_ctty() before exit_task_namespaces(), it doesn't make sense to delay it after perf_event_exit_task() or cgroup_exit(). This also allows to use task_work_add() inside the (nontrivial) code paths in disassociate_ctty(). Investigated by Peter Hurley. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> Reported-by: Sree Harsha Totakura <sreehar...@totakura.in> Cc: Peter Hurley <pe...@hurleysoftware.com> Cc: Sree Harsha Totakura <sreehar...@totakura.in> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebied...@xmission.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jd...@addtoit.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu> Cc: Andrey Vagin <ava...@openvz.org> Cc: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- kernel/exit.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -790,6 +790,8 @@ void do_exit(long code) exit_shm(tsk); exit_files(tsk); exit_fs(tsk); + if (group_dead) + disassociate_ctty(1); exit_task_namespaces(tsk); exit_task_work(tsk); check_stack_usage(); @@ -805,13 +807,9 @@ void do_exit(long code) cgroup_exit(tsk, 1); - if (group_dead) - disassociate_ctty(1); - module_put(task_thread_info(tsk)->exec_domain->module); proc_exit_connector(tsk); - /* * FIXME: do that only when needed, using sched_exit tracepoint */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/