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    exit: reparent: fix the cross-namespace PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER reparenting · 7d24e2df
    Oleg Nesterov authored
    find_new_reaper() assumes that "has_child_subreaper" logic is safe as
    long as we are not the exiting ->child_reaper and this is doubly wrong:
    
    1. In fact it is safe if "pid_ns->child_reaper == father"; there must
       be no children after zap_pid_ns_processes() returns, so it doesn't
       matter what we return in this case and even pid_ns->child_reaper is
       wrong otherwise: we can't reparent to ->child_reaper == current.
    
       This is not a bug, but this is confusing.
    
    2. It is not safe if we are not pid_ns->child_reaper but from the same
       thread group. We drop tasklist_lock before zap_pid_ns_processes(),
       so another thread can lock it and choose the new reaper from the
       upper namespace if has_child_subreaper == T, and this is obviously
       wrong.
    
       This is not that bad, zap_pid_ns_processes() won't return until the
       the new reaper reaps all zombies, but this should be fixed anyway.
    
    We could change for_each_thread() loop to use ->exit_state instead of
    PF_EXITING which we had to use until 8aac6270, or we could change
    copy_signal() to check CLONE_NEWPID before setting has_child_subreaper,
    but lets change this code so that it is clear we can't look outside of
    our namespace, otherwise same_thread_group(reaper, child_reaper) check
    will look wrong and confusing anyway.
    
    We can simply start from "father" and fix the problem. We can't wrongly
    return a thread from the same thread group if ->is_child_subreaper == T,
    we know that all threads have PF_EXITING set.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
    Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
    Cc: Sterling Alexander <stalexan@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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