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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>, Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/6] taskstats_tgid_free: fix usage
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:21:28 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061026232128.GA526@oleg> (raw)

taskstats_tgid_free() is called on copy_process's error path. This is wrong.

	IF (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)
		We should not clear ->signal->taskstats, current uses it,
		it probably has a valid accumulated info.
	ELSE
		taskstats_tgid_init() set ->signal->taskstats = NULL,
		there is nothing to free.

Move the callsite to __exit_signal(). We don't need any locking, entire
thread group is exiting, nobody should have a reference to soon to be
released ->signal.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

--- STATS/include/linux/taskstats_kern.h~3_free	2006-07-29 05:05:59.000000000 +0400
+++ STATS/include/linux/taskstats_kern.h	2006-10-27 01:28:31.000000000 +0400
@@ -49,17 +49,8 @@ static inline void taskstats_tgid_alloc(
 
 static inline void taskstats_tgid_free(struct signal_struct *sig)
 {
-	struct taskstats *stats = NULL;
-	unsigned long flags;
-
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&sig->stats_lock, flags);
-	if (sig->stats) {
-		stats = sig->stats;
-		sig->stats = NULL;
-	}
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sig->stats_lock, flags);
-	if (stats)
-		kmem_cache_free(taskstats_cache, stats);
+	if (sig->stats)
+		kmem_cache_free(taskstats_cache, sig->stats);
 }
 
 extern void taskstats_exit_alloc(struct taskstats **, unsigned int *);
--- STATS/kernel/fork.c~3_free	2006-10-25 01:07:22.000000000 +0400
+++ STATS/kernel/fork.c	2006-10-27 01:29:28.000000000 +0400
@@ -897,7 +897,6 @@ static inline int copy_signal(unsigned l
 void __cleanup_signal(struct signal_struct *sig)
 {
 	exit_thread_group_keys(sig);
-	taskstats_tgid_free(sig);
 	kmem_cache_free(signal_cachep, sig);
 }
 
--- STATS/kernel/exit.c~3_free	2006-10-22 18:24:03.000000000 +0400
+++ STATS/kernel/exit.c	2006-10-27 01:34:15.000000000 +0400
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_st
 	flush_sigqueue(&tsk->pending);
 	if (sig) {
 		flush_sigqueue(&sig->shared_pending);
+		taskstats_tgid_free(sig);
 		__cleanup_signal(sig);
 	}
 }


             reply	other threads:[~2006-10-26 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-26 23:21 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2006-10-31  2:49 ` [PATCH 3/6] taskstats_tgid_free: fix usage Balbir Singh

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