Linux kernel bug fix: exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore
Subsystem: kernel (kernel/events/core.c)
Bug type: deadlock, severity: medium
Keywords: deadlock
Files changed: fs/exec.c;fs/proc/base.c;include/linux/sched/signal.h;init/init_task.c;kernel/events/core.c;kernel/fork.c;kernel/kcmp.c;kernel/pid.c
Introduced by Eric W. Biederman on 2020-03-25 10:03:36 -0500; fixed by Eric W. Biederman on 2020-12-10 13:13:32 -0600 (lifetime: 260 days)