Re: cdrecord deadlocks linux 2.6.8.1 (problem in setscheduler)

From: Chris Wright (chrisw@private)
Date: Tue Oct 19 2004 - 11:27:40 PDT


* Stephen Smalley (sds@private) wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 08:14, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > I think that you need to hold the lock when extracting p->policy, and if
> > you drop the lock for the security checks, you need to recheck that
> > p->policy hasn't changed after you re-take the lock.  Advantage of your
> > approach (with those fixes) is that no special handling is required by
> > capable(CAP_SYS_NICE) and security_task_setscheduler hook
> > implementations; they can audit immediately.  But given that the audit
> > framework does support deferred auditing via audit_log_end_irq, I'm not
> > sure that this is going to be compelling upstream, as it makes
> > setscheduler() very convoluted.
> 
> Hmmm...may have spoken too soon; looks like audit_log_end_irq can
> deadlock too when the runqueue lock is held.  Only option is to disable
> auditing of CAP_SYS_NICE and setscheduler?  Very unpleasant.

I assume this is due to wakeup code putting smth. on the runqueue?

thanks,
-chris
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