Re: [PATCH] exec: fix the racy usage of fs_struct->in_exec

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 03/24, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
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> I won't argue with another solution. But this problem is quite old,

Yes, but...

> unless I am totally confused this logic was wrong from the very
> beginning when fs->in_exec was introduced by 498052bba55ec.

OK, I was wrong. According to git show 498052bba55ec:fs/exec.c
this patch was correct in this respect. Sorry for the noise.

> So to me it would be better to have the trivial fix for stable,
> exactly because it is trivially backportable. Then cleanup/simplify
> this logic on top of it.

Yes...

Oleg.