On 27.04.2017 19:12, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 04/26, Kirill Tkhai wrote: >> >> On 26.04.2017 18:53, Oleg Nesterov wrote: >>> >>>> +static long set_last_pid_vec(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns, >>>> + struct pidns_ioc_req *req) >>>> +{ >>>> + char *str, *p; >>>> + int ret = 0; >>>> + pid_t pid; >>>> + >>>> + read_lock(&tasklist_lock); >>>> + if (!pid_ns->child_reaper) >>>> + ret = -EINVAL; >>>> + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); >>>> + if (ret) >>>> + return ret; >>> >>> why do you need to check ->child_reaper under tasklist_lock? this looks pointless. >>> >>> In fact I do not understand how it is possible to hit pid_ns->child_reaper == NULL, >>> there must be at least one task in this namespace, otherwise you can't open a file >>> which has f_op == ns_file_operations, no? >> >> Sure, it's impossible to pick a pid_ns, if there is no the pid_ns's tasks. I added >> it under impression of >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=dfda351c729733a401981e8738ce497eaffcaa00 >> but here it's completely wrong. It will be removed in v2. > > Hmm. But if I read this commit correctly then we really need to check > pid_ns->child_reaper != NULL ? > > Currently we can't pick an "empty" pid_ns. But after the commit above a task > can do sys_unshare(CLONE_NEWPID), another (or the same) task can open its > /proc/$pid/ns/pid_for_children and call ns_ioctl() before the 1st alloc_pid() ? Another task can't open /proc/$pid/ns/pid_for_children before the 1st alloc_pid(), because pid_for_children is available to open only after the 1st alloc_pid(). So, it's impossible to call ioctl() on it. > Or I am totally confused? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html