From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat•com>
To: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware•com>
Cc: Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura•in>,
linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission•com>
Subject: Re: pppd service crash in linux-3.13.6
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:23:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140314192346.GA14823@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53230FE5.9020204@hurleysoftware.com>
On 03/14, Peter Hurley wrote:
>
>> On 03/13/2014 01:06 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>>>
>>> OTOH, why we should delay disassociate_ctty? IOW, do you see any
>>> potential problem with the trivial patch below?
>
> Won't work.
>
> cgroup_exit() can exec a userspace process (the notify_on_exit() facility)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
can't find anything named notify_on_exit, perhap you meant
cgroup_release_agent? Although I guess this should not matter.
> which requires both namespace and tty facilities.
Hmm... why?
The exiting task obviously can't exec. The only way to spawn a userspace
process is call_usermodehelper(), it should work just fine, no?
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-14 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <531A37FF.4000509@totakura.in>
2014-03-10 16:56 ` pppd service crash in linux-3.13.6 Sree Harsha Totakura
2014-03-10 19:23 ` Peter Hurley
2014-03-13 17:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-13 17:55 ` Peter Hurley
2014-03-14 14:19 ` Peter Hurley
2014-03-14 15:02 ` Peter Hurley
2014-03-14 19:23 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2014-03-14 20:28 ` Peter Hurley
2014-03-14 21:04 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-15 12:49 ` Peter Hurley
2014-03-17 18:04 ` [PATCH 0/2] (Was: pppd service crash in linux-3.13.6) Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-17 18:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] exit: call disassociate_ctty() before exit_task_namespaces() Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-17 18:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] exit: move check_stack_usage() to the end of do_exit() Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-10 19:54 ` pppd service crash in linux-3.13.6 Ben Hutchings
2014-03-12 21:25 ` Sree Harsha Totakura
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