Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270978AbTGVSE0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:04:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270979AbTGVSE0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:04:26 -0400 Received: from notes.hallinto.turkuamk.fi ([195.148.215.149]:7176 "EHLO notes.hallinto.turkuamk.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270978AbTGVSEX (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:04:23 -0400 Message-ID: <3F1D81A2.1060402@kolumbus.fi> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:25:38 +0300 From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Mika_Penttil=E4?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Jason Baron , Rene Mayrhofer , vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: pivot_root seems to be broken in 2.4.21-ac4 References: <1058895650.4161.23.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on marconi.hallinto.turkuamk.fi/TAMK(Release 5.0.8 |June 18, 2001) at 22.07.2003 21:20:49, Serialize by Router on notes.hallinto.turkuamk.fi/TAMK(Release 5.0.10 |March 22, 2002) at 22.07.2003 21:20:16, Serialize complete at 22.07.2003 21:20:16 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1234 Lines: 41 Alan Cox wrote: >On Maw, 2003-07-22 at 18:37, Jason Baron wrote: > > >>>I tell init to re-execute itself (after pivot_root and thus from the new >>>root fs), which causes init to close its old fds and open new ones from >>>the new root fs with. This is necessary because init already runs as pid >>>1 when I start the root fs switching. Maybe something changed with the >>>kernel process fds from 2.4.21-rc2 to 2.4.21-ac4 ? >>> >>> >>> >>yes, see the addition of the unshare_files function in kernel/fork.c >> >> > >Shouldnt really have changed anything except for security exploits and >threaded apps doing weird stuff. In normal situations the files count is >one so we should actually be executing nothing more exciting that an >atomic_inc/atomic_dec. > >I wonder what is going on here. > >- > > But kernel threads may be incrementing init's files->count before user space init execs, so unshare_files() after execve("/sbin/init") ends up copying files. --Mika - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/