Quoting Aristeu Rozanski (a...@redhat.com): > In preparation for better hierarchy support, it's needed to retain the local > settings in order to try to reapply them after a propagated change if they're > still valid. > > Cc: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org> > Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hal...@canonical.com> > Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <a...@redhat.com> > > --- > security/device_cgroup.c | 108 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- > 1 file changed, 80 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
Hi, thanks for doing this. I've got one concern though. I don't see any place where devcgroup_create() was updated to create the local exceptions list. I think we need a guarantee that at any time the local exceptions list will contain all the entries contained in the cgroup->exceptions list. Otherwise you cannot use the exception_add() the way you do (or you can't use RCU), since there could be a window between the successful addition of a rule to cgroup->local.exceptions and the failed addition to cgroup->exceptions, during which a task (since it won't need the mutex for devcg_allow()) could exceed allowed permissions. It's possible I'm misunderstanding. If you think that's the case just kick me and I'll take a fresh look. (Btw is there a git tree or gitweb view I could look at alongside the patchset?) thanks, -serge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
