Re: [linux-next] BUG triggered in ptraceme

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On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 04:16:50PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
...
> >
> > Heh, actually not :) It is due to commit
> >
> > commit 1f8266ff58840d698a1e96d2274189de1bdf7969
> > Author: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Thu Sep 13 18:12:09 2018 +0200
> >
> > which introduced might_sleep. Seems it is bad idea to send bug report
> > without having a cup of coffee at the morning :)
> 
> Yeah, I fixed one sleep-in-atomic bug and figured I'd throw a
> might_sleep() in there for good measure... sigh.
> I guess now I have to go through all the callers of
> begin_current_label_crit_section() to see what else looks wrong...
> 

Yes, I fear so. Need to check every caller just to be sure.

> apparmor_ptrace_traceme() is wrong, as reported...
> 
> apparmor_path_link() looks icky, but I'm not sure - from what I can
> tell, it's called with an i_rwsem held for writing, and that probably
> makes calling back into filesystem context from there a bad idea?
> OTOH, it's just the i_rwsem of a newly-created path, so I don't know
> whether that's actually an issue...
> 
> security_path_rename() is called with two i_rwsem's held, but again,
> I'm not sure whether that's a problem.

Lets wait for fs people opinions.



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