[PATCH] namespaces: fix exit race by splitting exit

Fix exit race by splitting the nsproxy putting into two pieces.  First
piece reduces the nsproxy refcount.  If we dropped the last reference, then
it puts the mnt_ns, and returns the nsproxy as a hint to the caller.  Else
it returns NULL.  The second piece of exiting task namespaces sets
tsk->nsproxy to NULL, and drops the references to other namespaces and
frees the nsproxy only if an nsproxy was passed in.

A little awkward and should probably be reworked, but hopefully it fixes
the NFS oops.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel@hozac.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/nsproxy.c b/kernel/nsproxy.c
index f5b9ee6f6bb..7b05bce75cd 100644
--- a/kernel/nsproxy.c
+++ b/kernel/nsproxy.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ int copy_namespaces(int flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 		goto out_pid;
 
 out:
-	put_nsproxy(old_ns);
+	put_and_finalize_nsproxy(old_ns);
 	return err;
 
 out_pid:
@@ -135,6 +135,20 @@ out_ns:
 	goto out;
 }
 
+struct nsproxy *put_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
+{
+	if (ns) {
+		if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ns->count)) {
+			if (ns->mnt_ns) {
+				put_mnt_ns(ns->mnt_ns);
+				ns->mnt_ns = NULL;
+			}
+			return ns;
+		}
+	}
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 void free_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
 {
 	if (ns->mnt_ns)