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Pull task_exec_state updates from Christian Brauner:
"This introduces a new per-task task_exec_state structure and relocates
the dumpable mode and the user namespace captured at execve() from
mm_struct onto it. It stays attached to the task for its full
lifetime.
__ptrace_may_access() and several /proc owner and visibility checks
need to consult two pieces of state for any observable task, including
zombies that have already gone through exit_mm(): the dumpable mode
and the user namespace captured at execve(). Both live on mm_struct
today, which exit_mm() clears from the task long before the task is
reaped. A reader that races with do_exit() observes task->mm == NULL
and either fails the check or falls back to init_user_ns - which
denies legitimate access to non-dumpable zombies that were running in
a nested user namespace.
mm_struct loses ->user_ns and the dumpability bits in ->flags.
MMF_DUMPABLE_BITS is reserved so the MMF_DUMP_FILTER_* layout exposed
via /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter stays stable. task->user_dumpable and
its exit_mm() snapshot are removed.
task_exec_state is the privilege domain established by an execve().
Within a thread group it is shared via refcount; across thread groups
each task has its own:
- CLONE_VM siblings (thread-group members, io_uring workers)
refcount-share the parent's exec_state.
- Non-CLONE_VM clones (fork(), vfork() without CLONE_VM) allocate a
fresh exec_state inheriting the parent's dumpable mode and user_ns.
- execve() in the child allocates a fresh instance and installs it
under task_lock + exec_update_lock via task_exec_state_replace().
- Credential changes (setresuid, capset, ...) and
prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE) update dumpability on the current task's
exec_state, i.e., on the thread group's shared instance.
On top of this exec_mmap() no longer tears down the old mm while
holding exec_update_lock for writing and cred_guard_mutex. Neither
lock is needed for that: exec_update_lock only exists to make the mm
swap atomic with the later commit_creds() and all its readers operate
on the new mm; none looks at the detached old mm.
The cost was real: __mmput() runs exit_mmap() over the entire old
address space and can block in exit_aio() waiting for in-flight AIO,
so execve() of a large process blocked ptrace_attach() and every
exec_update_lock reader for the duration of the teardown.
The old mm is now stashed in bprm->old_mm and released from
setup_new_exec() after both locks are dropped, with a backstop in
free_bprm() for the error paths"
* tag 'kernel-7.2-rc1.task_exec_state' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
exec: free the old mm outside the exec locks
exec_state: relocate dumpable information
ptrace: add ptracer_access_allowed()
exec: introduce struct task_exec_state
sched/coredump: introduce enum task_dumpable
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