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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] keys: change keyctl_session_to_parent() to use task_work_add()
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:45:16 +0100
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Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:

> Change keyctl_session_to_parent() to use task_work_add() and
> move key_replace_session_keyring() logic into task_work->func().
> 
> Note that we do task_work_cancel() before task_work_add() to
> ensure that only one work can be pending at any time. This is
> important, we must not allow user-space to abuse the parent's
> ->task_works list.
> 
> The callback, replace_session_keyring(), checks PF_EXITING.
> I guess this is not really needed but looks better.
> 
> As a side effect, this fixes the (unlikely) race. The callers
> of key_replace_session_keyring() and keyctl_session_to_parent()
> lack the necessary barriers, the parent can miss the request.
> 
> Now we can remove task_struct->replacement_session_keyring and
> related code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>