Re: [PATCH 0/3] exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore

From: Waiman Long
Date: Thu Dec 03 2020 - 20:57:54 EST


On 12/3/20 5:42 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 12:10 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The simplest and most robust solution appears to be making
exec_update_mutex a read/write lock and having everything execept for
exec take the lock for read.
Looks sane to me.

I'd like the locking people to look at the down_read_*() functions,
even if they look simple. Adding Waiman and Davidlohr to the cc just
in case they would look at that too, since they've worked on that
code.

I have looked at patches 1 & 2 on adding down_read_killable_nested() and down_read_interruptible(). They looks good to me.

Cheers,
Longman