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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] clear signal->tty when the last thread exits
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:40:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100319184020.GA519@redhat.com> (raw)

When the last thread exits signal->tty is freed, but the pointer is not
cleared and points to nowhere.

This is OK. Nobody should use signal->tty lockless, and it is no longer
possible to take ->siglock. However this looks wrong even if correct, and
the nice OOPS is better than subtle and hard to find bugs.

Change __exit_signal() to clear signal->tty under ->siglock.

Note: __exit_signal() needs more cleanups. It should not check "sig != NULL"
to detect the all-dead case and we have the same issues with signal->stats.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---

 kernel/exit.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 34-rc1/kernel/exit.c~9_CLEAR_SIGNAL_TTY	2010-03-19 17:25:36.000000000 +0100
+++ 34-rc1/kernel/exit.c	2010-03-19 18:55:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_st
 {
 	struct signal_struct *sig = tsk->signal;
 	struct sighand_struct *sighand;
+	struct tty_struct *tty;
 
 	BUG_ON(!sig);
 	BUG_ON(!atomic_read(&sig->count));
@@ -94,6 +95,8 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_st
 	posix_cpu_timers_exit(tsk);
 	if (thread_group_leader(tsk)) {
 		posix_cpu_timers_exit_group(tsk);
+		tty = sig->tty;
+		sig->tty = NULL;
 	} else {
 		/*
 		 * If there is any task waiting for the group exit
@@ -148,7 +151,7 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_st
 		 * see account_group_exec_runtime().
 		 */
 		task_rq_unlock_wait(tsk);
-		tty_kref_put(sig->tty);
+		tty_kref_put(tty);
 	}
 }
 


             reply	other threads:[~2010-03-19 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-19 18:40 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2010-03-24 14:23 ` [PATCH -mm] signals-clear-signal-tty-when-the-last-thread-exits.fix Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-24 11:41   ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-24 16:02     ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-24 16:42       ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-08  2:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] clear signal->tty when the last thread exits Roland McGrath

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