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Date:   Thu, 3 Dec 2020 20:54:01 -0800
From:   Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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        Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore
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On Thu, 03 Dec 2020, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 12:10 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>>
>> The simplest and most robust solution appears to be making
>> exec_update_mutex a read/write lock and having everything execept for
>> exec take the lock for read.
>
>Looks sane to me.
>
>I'd like the locking people to look at the down_read_*() functions,
>even if they look simple. Adding Waiman and Davidlohr to the cc just
>in case they would look at that too, since they've worked on that
>code.

rwsem changes look good to me - and 3/3 looks much nicer than the previous
alternatives to the deadlock.

Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>