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    exit: call disassociate_ctty() before exit_task_namespaces() · 16739781
    Oleg Nesterov authored
    commit c39df5fa37b0623589508c95515b4aa1531c524e upstream.
    
    Commit 8aac6270
    
     ("move exit_task_namespaces() outside of
    exit_notify()") breaks pppd and the exiting service crashes the kernel:
    
        BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
        IP: ppp_register_channel+0x13/0x20 [ppp_generic]
        Call Trace:
          ppp_asynctty_open+0x12b/0x170 [ppp_async]
          tty_ldisc_open.isra.2+0x27/0x60
          tty_ldisc_hangup+0x1e3/0x220
          __tty_hangup+0x2c4/0x440
          disassociate_ctty+0x61/0x270
          do_exit+0x7f2/0xa50
    
    ppp_register_channel() needs ->net_ns and current->nsproxy == NULL.
    
    Move disassociate_ctty() before exit_task_namespaces(), it doesn't make
    sense to delay it after perf_event_exit_task() or cgroup_exit().
    
    This also allows to use task_work_add() inside the (nontrivial) code
    paths in disassociate_ctty().
    
    Investigated by Peter Hurley.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarSree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in>
    Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
    Cc: Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in>
    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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