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Eric W. Biederman committed 7bd8830875b
cgroupns: Fix the locking in copy_cgroup_ns
If "clone(CLONE_NEWCGROUP...)" is called it results in a nice lockdep
valid splat.
In __cgroup_proc_write the lock ordering is:
cgroup_mutex -- through cgroup_kn_lock_live
cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem
In copy_process the guts of clone the lock ordering is:
cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem -- through threadgroup_change_begin
cgroup_mutex -- through copy_namespaces -- copy_cgroup_ns
lockdep reports some a different call chains for the first ordering of
cgroup_mutex and cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem but it is harder to trace.
This is most definitely deadlock potential under the right
circumstances.
Fix this by by skipping the cgroup_mutex and making the locking in
copy_cgroup_ns mirror the locking in cgroup_post_fork which also runs
during fork under the cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a79a908fd2b0 ("cgroup: introduce cgroup namespaces")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>