This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    exit: call disassociate_ctty() before exit_task_namespaces()

to the 3.13-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     exit-call-disassociate_ctty-before-exit_task_namespaces.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From c39df5fa37b0623589508c95515b4aa1531c524e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:38:29 -0700
Subject: exit: call disassociate_ctty() before exit_task_namespaces()

From: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>

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 <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Sree Harsha Totakura <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Hurley <[email protected]>
Cc: Sree Harsha Totakura <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 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
         */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.13/wait-fix-reparent_leader-vs-exit_dead-exit_zombie-race.patch
queue-3.13/pid_namespace-pidns_get-should-check-task_active_pid_ns-null.patch
queue-3.13/exit-call-disassociate_ctty-before-exit_task_namespaces.patch
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