From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 22:44:37 +0000 (-0700) Subject: fs/exec.c: move ->recursion_depth out of critical sections X-Git-Tag: v5.2-rc1~62^2~52 X-Git-Url: http://git.samba.org/samba.git/?p=sfrench%2Fcifs-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=d53ddd0181d1c284c28c0d70a3d7039db41c6f7e fs/exec.c: move ->recursion_depth out of critical sections ->recursion_depth is changed only by current, therefore decrementing can be done without taking any locks. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190417213150.GA26474@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 2e0033348d8e..d88584ebf07f 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -1652,11 +1652,13 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_binprm *bprm) if (!try_module_get(fmt->module)) continue; read_unlock(&binfmt_lock); + bprm->recursion_depth++; retval = fmt->load_binary(bprm); + bprm->recursion_depth--; + read_lock(&binfmt_lock); put_binfmt(fmt); - bprm->recursion_depth--; if (retval < 0 && !bprm->mm) { /* we got to flush_old_exec() and failed after it */ read_unlock(&binfmt_lock);