From c89681ed7d0e4a61d35bdc12c06c6733b718b2cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:47:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] remove steal_locks() This patch removes the steal_locks() function. steal_locks() doesn't work correctly with any filesystem that does it's own lock management, including NFS, CIFS, etc. In addition it has weird semantics on local filesystems in case tasks sharing file-descriptor tables are doing POSIX locking operations in parallel to execve(). The steal_locks() function has an effect on applications doing: clone(CLONE_FILES) /* in child */ lock execve lock POSIX locks acquired before execve (by "child", "parent" or any further task sharing files_struct) will after the execve be owned exclusively by "child". According to Chris Wright some LSB/LTP kind of suite triggers without the stealing behavior, but there's no known real-world application that would also fail. Apps using NPTL are not affected, since all other threads are killed before execve. Apps using LinuxThreads are only affected if they - have multiple threads during exec (LinuxThreads doesn't kill other threads, the app may do it with pthread_kill_other_threads_np()) - rely on POSIX locks being inherited across exec Both conditions are documented, but not their interaction. Apps using clone() natively are affected if they - use clone(CLONE_FILES) - rely on POSIX locks being inherited across exec The above scenarios are unlikely, but possible. If the patch is vetoed, there's a plan B, that involves mostly keeping the weird stealing semantics, but changing the way lock ownership is handled so that network and local filesystems work consistently. That would add more complexity though, so this solution seems to be preferred by most people. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Chris Wright Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Steven French Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/exec.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/exec.c') diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index d07858c0b7c4..0b88bf646143 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -866,7 +866,6 @@ int flush_old_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm) bprm->mm = NULL; /* We're using it now */ /* This is the point of no return */ - steal_locks(files); put_files_struct(files); current->sas_ss_sp = current->sas_ss_size = 0; -- cgit v1.2.1