On Tue, 2014-11-11 at 11:06 +0000, Luis Henriques wrote: > 3.16.7-ckt1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > commit 65b38851a17472d31fec9019fc3a55b0802dab88 upstream. > > The usage of pid_ns->child_reaper->nsproxy->net_ns in > nfs_server_list_open and nfs_client_list_open is not safe. > > /proc for a pid namespace can remain mounted after the all of the > process in that pid namespace have exited. There are also times > before the initial process in a pid namespace has started or after the > initial process in a pid namespace has exited where > pid_ns->child_reaper can be NULL or stale. Making the idiom > pid_ns->child_reaper->nsproxy a double whammy of problems. > > Luckily all that needs to happen is to move /proc/fs/nfsfs/servers and > /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes under /proc/net to /proc/net/nfsfs/servers and > /proc/net/nfsfs/volumes and add a symlink from the original location, > and to use seq_open_net as it has been designed. > > Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [...] This needs a follow-up: commit 21e81002f9788a3af591416b6dec60d7b67f2fb2 Author: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Sep 8 16:17:55 2014 -0700 nfs: fix kernel warning when removing proc entry Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
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