Re: [RFC,PATCH] Use RCU to protect tasklist for unicast signals

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:16:53PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >
> > --- linux-2.6.13-rc6/kernel/signal.c	2005-08-08 19:59:24.000000000 -0700
> > +++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-tasklistRCU/kernel/signal.c	2005-08-10 08:20:25.000000000 -0700
> > @@ -1151,9 +1151,13 @@ int group_send_sig_info(int sig, struct 
> >
> >  	ret = check_kill_permission(sig, info, p);
> >  	if (!ret && sig && p->sighand) {
> > +		if (!get_task_struct_rcu(p)) {
> > +			return -ESRCH;
> > +		}
> >  		spin_lock_irqsave(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
>                                       ^^^^^^^
> Is it correct?
> 
> The caller (kill_proc_info) does not take tasklist_lock anymore.
> If p does exec() at this time it can change/free its ->sighand.
> 
> fs/exec.c:de_thread()
>    773                  write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
>    774                  spin_lock(&oldsighand->siglock);
>    775                  spin_lock(&newsighand->siglock);
>    776
>    777                  current->sighand = newsighand;
>    778                  recalc_sigpending();
>    779
>    780                  spin_unlock(&newsighand->siglock);
>    781                  spin_unlock(&oldsighand->siglock);
>    782                  write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
>    783
>    784                  if (atomic_dec_and_test(&oldsighand->count))
>    785                          kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, oldsighand);

Looks suspicious to me!  ;-)  Will look into this one, thank you for
pointing it out!

						Thanx, Paul