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-rw-r--r--include/linux/user_namespace.h1
-rw-r--r--kernel/user_namespace.c21
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/user_namespace.h b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
index 315bcd375224..cc4f45361dbb 100644
--- a/include/linux/user_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ struct user_namespace {
struct kref kref;
struct hlist_head uidhash_table[UIDHASH_SZ];
struct user_struct *creator;
+ struct work_struct destroyer;
};
extern struct user_namespace init_user_ns;
diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 79084311ee57..076c7c8215b0 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -60,12 +60,25 @@ int create_user_ns(struct cred *new)
return 0;
}
-void free_user_ns(struct kref *kref)
+/*
+ * Deferred destructor for a user namespace. This is required because
+ * free_user_ns() may be called with uidhash_lock held, but we need to call
+ * back to free_uid() which will want to take the lock again.
+ */
+static void free_user_ns_work(struct work_struct *work)
{
- struct user_namespace *ns;
-
- ns = container_of(kref, struct user_namespace, kref);
+ struct user_namespace *ns =
+ container_of(work, struct user_namespace, destroyer);
free_uid(ns->creator);
kfree(ns);
}
+
+void free_user_ns(struct kref *kref)
+{
+ struct user_namespace *ns =
+ container_of(kref, struct user_namespace, kref);
+
+ INIT_WORK(&ns->destroyer, free_user_ns_work);
+ schedule_work(&ns->destroyer);
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_user_ns);