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From:   Wen Yang <wenyang@linux.alibaba.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc:     Wen Yang <wenyang@linux.alibaba.com>,
        "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
        stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Stable backport request for fixing the issue of not being able to create a new pid_ns
Date:   Thu,  8 Oct 2020 21:00:21 +0800
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After the process exits, the following three dentries still refer to the pid:
/proc/<pid>
/proc/<pid>/ns
/proc/<pid>/ns/pid

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208613

According to the commit f333c700c610 ("pidns: Add a limit on the number of
pid namespaces"), if the pid cannot be released, it may result in the
inability to create a new pid_ns.

Please backport the following patches to the kernel stable trees (from 4.9.y
to 5.6.y):
7bc3e6e55acf ("proc: Use a list of inodes to flush from proc")
26dbc60f385f ("proc: Generalize proc_sys_prune_dcache into proc_prune_siblings_dcache")
f90f3cafe8d5 ("proc: Use d_invalidate in proc_prune_siblings_dcache")

Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wenyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org