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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-26 15:45:22 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-26 15:45:22 +0100 |
commit | a5ebc0b1a7843508b375f7ab8a36a628e5c9f372 (patch) | |
tree | 04d3ab410e08b4d9174c663dd6bf95611dd16d0a /kernel/user_namespace.c | |
parent | Merge branches 'timers/clockevents', 'timers/hpet', 'timers/hrtimers' and 'timers/urgent' into timers/core (diff) | |
parent | Linux 2.6.29 (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'v2.6.29' into timers/core
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/user_namespace.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/user_namespace.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
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); |