cgroupns: Fix the locking in copy_cgroup_ns
If "clone(CLONE_NEWCGROUP...)" is called it results in a nice lockdep valid splat. In __cgroup_proc_write the lock ordering is: cgroup_mutex -- through cgroup_kn_lock_live cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem In copy_process the guts of clone the lock ordering is: cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem -- through threadgroup_change_begin cgroup_mutex -- through copy_namespaces -- copy_cgroup_ns lockdep reports some a different call chains for the first ordering of cgroup_mutex and cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem but it is harder to trace. This is most definitely deadlock potential under the right circumstances. Fix this by by skipping the cgroup_mutex and making the locking in copy_cgroup_ns mirror the locking in cgroup_post_fork which also runs during fork under the cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: a79a908f ("cgroup: introduce cgroup namespaces") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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