On 27.04.2017 19:22, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 04/27, Kirill Tkhai wrote: >> >> 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. > > Ah, OK, I didn't notice the ns->child_reaper check in pidns_for_children_get(). > > But note that it doesn't need tasklist_lock too. Hm, are there possible strange situations with memory ordering, when we see ns->child_reaper of already died ns, which was placed in the same memory? Do we have to use some memory barriers here? -- 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