Re: [PATCH] prctl: remove one-shot limitation for changing exe link

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 07/12, Stanislav Kinsburskiy wrote:
>
> 12.07.2016 18:42, Oleg Nesterov ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>> But I would like to ack it in any case. I never understood why do we
>> want/need this MMF_EXE_FILE_CHANGED check, I suggested to remove it
>> many times.
>>
>> And can't resist, please note the xchg() below. Currently (before this
>> patch) we do not need it. I was specially added to ensure that we can
>> just remove this test_and_set_bit(MMF_EXE_FILE_CHANGED) without adding
>> a race.
>
> Thanks, Oleg. I'll take a look.
> But should this be addressed in this patch? Especially if it's not
> needed even now (before this patch)?

Sorry for confusion...

Yes, it is not needed now (before this patch). Because only one caller
of prctl_set_mm_exe_file() can succced and update mm->exe_file. So we
could just do

	fput(mm->exe_file);
	mm->exe_file = get_file(exe.file);


But after this patch we do need this xchg(), otherwise 2 callers of
prctl_set_mm_exe_file() can race with each other. And this was the
actual reason for xchg: simplify the MMF_EXE_FILE_CHANGED removal in
future.

Oleg.