threadgroup: extend threadgroup_lock() to cover exit and exec

From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

threadgroup_lock() protected only protected against new addition to
the threadgroup, which was inherently somewhat incomplete and
problematic for its only user cgroup.  On-going migration could race
against exec and exit leading to interesting problems - the symmetry
between various attach methods, task exiting during method execution,
->exit() racing against attach methods, migrating task switching basic
properties during exec and so on.

This patch extends threadgroup_lock() such that it protects against
all three threadgroup altering operations - fork, exit and exec.  For
exit, threadgroup_change_begin/end() calls are added to exit path.
For exec, threadgroup_[un]lock() are updated to also grab and release
cred_guard_mutex.

With this change, threadgroup_lock() guarantees that the target
threadgroup will remain stable - no new task will be added, no new
PF_EXITING will be set and exec won't happen.

The next patch will update cgroup so that it can take full advantage
of this change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
backported by faux123

Conflicts:
	kernel/exit.c

Change-Id: Id975b5cbacb5d8db993e43688a722a28225dc557

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 20a73ad..13f4339 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -635,11 +635,12 @@ struct signal_struct {
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUPS
 	/*
-	 * The group_rwsem prevents threads from forking with
-	 * CLONE_THREAD while held for writing. Use this for fork-sensitive
-	 * threadgroup-wide operations. It's taken for reading in fork.c in
-	 * copy_process().
-	 * Currently only needed write-side by cgroups.
+	 * group_rwsem prevents new tasks from entering the threadgroup and
+	 * member tasks from exiting.  fork and exit paths are protected
+	 * with this rwsem using threadgroup_change_begin/end().  Users
+	 * which require threadgroup to remain stable should use
+	 * threadgroup_[un]lock() which also takes care of exec path.
+	 * Currently, cgroup is the only user.
 	 */
 	struct rw_semaphore group_rwsem;
 #endif
@@ -2354,7 +2355,6 @@ static inline void unlock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk,
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tsk->sighand->siglock, *flags);
 }
 
-/* See the declaration of group_rwsem in signal_struct. */
 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUPS
 static inline void threadgroup_change_begin(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
@@ -2364,13 +2364,33 @@ static inline void threadgroup_change_done(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	up_read(&tsk->signal->group_rwsem);
 }
+
+/**
+ * threadgroup_lock - lock threadgroup
+ * @tsk: member task of the threadgroup to lock
+ *
+ * Lock the threadgroup @tsk belongs to.  No new task is allowed to enter
+ * and member tasks aren't allowed to exit (as indicated by PF_EXITING) or
+ * perform exec.  This is useful for cases where the threadgroup needs to
+ * stay stable across blockable operations.
+ */
 static inline void threadgroup_lock(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
+	/* exec uses exit for de-threading, grab cred_guard_mutex first */
+	mutex_lock(&tsk->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
 	down_write(&tsk->signal->group_rwsem);
 }
+
+/**
+ * threadgroup_unlock - unlock threadgroup
+ * @tsk: member task of the threadgroup to unlock
+ *
+ * Reverse threadgroup_lock().
+ */
 static inline void threadgroup_unlock(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	up_write(&tsk->signal->group_rwsem);
+	mutex_unlock(&tsk->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
 }
 #else
 static inline void threadgroup_change_begin(struct task_struct *tsk) {}