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From: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@virtuozzo.com>
To: Vasileios Almpanis <vasileios.almpanis@virtuozzo.com>,
	Andrey Drobyshev <andrey.drobyshev@virtuozzo.com>,
	Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: devel@openvz.org
Subject: [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 2/2] ms/exec: do_close_on_exec() before taking exec_update_lock
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:16:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261014-b4-prep-khorenko-vstor-149847-6-vfio-exec-ms-backports-v1-2-07b4e541d4ec@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261014-b4-prep-khorenko-vstor-149847-6-vfio-exec-ms-backports-v1-0-07b4e541d4ec@virtuozzo.com>

From: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>

do_close_on_exec() currently happens while holding the exec_update_lock,
which is used in a lot of places that access process state to
synchronize access checks.
I recently added another such use of exec_update_lock, causing a
regression.

do_close_on_exec() can block waiting for a reply from a filesystem.
That means a hung filesystem can block codepaths that use
exec_update_lock; and it also means that a FUSE filesystem which
attempts to inspect the calling process can deadlock.

To avoid such problems, move do_close_on_exec() before the
exec_update_lock is taken, but after the FD table has been copied if
necessary.

I have looked through all the calls between the old and new position of
the do_close_on_exec() call; there seems to be no file descriptor table
access in between.

Reported-by: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@locrian.net>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f5e8166a-88be-46c5-8939-1e5227ffe4c2@app.fastmail.com
Fixes: 6650527444da ("proc: protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock (part 1)")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260907-cloexec-before-exec-update-lock-v1-1-8018c201a7df@google.com
Tested-by: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@locrian.net>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit e780259b54e618ceb4763fbc21314acf3565e813)

Backport note: the Fixes: target 6650527444da is not in this tree, but
exec_update_lock already has readers here that a hung or self-inspecting
FUSE flush blocks: mm_access() (/proc/PID/maps, mem, environ and the
like, process_vm_readv()), lock_trace(), /proc/PID/io, pidfd_getfd(),
kcmp(), get_robust_list() and perf_event_open(). vz fuse_flush() sends
FLUSH only for files open for writing.

https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-150235
Feature: fix ms/exec

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@virtuozzo.com>
---
 fs/exec.c | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index e861a54b491f8..3b3412bcd7276 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1305,6 +1305,20 @@ int begin_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
 	if (retval)
 		goto out;
 
+	/*
+	 * We have to apply CLOEXEC before we change whether the process is
+	 * dumpable (in setup_new_exec) to avoid a race with a process in userspace
+	 * trying to access the should-be-closed file descriptors of a process
+	 * undergoing exec(2).
+	 *
+	 * This can block on filesystem ->flush() handlers, including waiting
+	 * for FUSE daemons, so do it before exec_mmap takes the
+	 * exec_update_lock.
+	 * This must happen after the point of no return, and after unsharing
+	 * the FD table.
+	 */
+	do_close_on_exec(me->files);
+
 	/*
 	 * Must be called _before_ exec_mmap() as bprm->mm is
 	 * not visible until then. Doing it here also ensures
@@ -1355,14 +1369,6 @@ int begin_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
 
 	clear_syscall_work_syscall_user_dispatch(me);
 
-	/*
-	 * We have to apply CLOEXEC before we change whether the process is
-	 * dumpable (in setup_new_exec) to avoid a race with a process in userspace
-	 * trying to access the should-be-closed file descriptors of a process
-	 * undergoing exec(2).
-	 */
-	do_close_on_exec(me->files);
-
 	if (bprm->secureexec) {
 		/* Make sure parent cannot signal privileged process. */
 		me->pdeath_signal = 0;

-- 
2.43.0

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-14 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-14 17:16 [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 0/2] vfio, exec: two mainline fixes that Oracle carries Konstantin Khorenko
2026-10-14 17:16 ` [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 1/2] ms/vfio: prevent infinite loop in vfio_mig_get_next_state() on blocked arc Konstantin Khorenko
2026-10-14 17:34   ` no-reply
2026-10-14 17:16 ` Konstantin Khorenko [this message]
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