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[3.11.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "exit: call disassociate_ctty() before exit_task_namespaces()" has been added to staging queue

Message ID 1398072782-17752-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com
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Luis Henriques April 21, 2014, 9:33 a.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    exit: call disassociate_ctty() before exit_task_namespaces()

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From 90eac8b3aab94700c2eeaca16fefdbca25e4ebad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:38:29 -0700
Subject: exit: call disassociate_ctty() before exit_task_namespaces()

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 <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
 kernel/exit.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index a949819..b79d882 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -783,6 +783,8 @@  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();
@@ -798,13 +800,9 @@  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
 	 */