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* Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Do not allow freezing processes to clear TIF_SIGPENDING
       [not found] <200710190022.36145.rjw@sisk.pl>
@ 2007-10-18 22:09 ` Nigel Cunningham
  2007-10-19  7:55 ` Pavel Machek
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Nigel Cunningham @ 2007-10-18 22:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Rafael J. Wysocki; +Cc: pm list, LKML, Oleg Nesterov

Hi.

On Friday 19 October 2007 08:22:35 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> 
> Do not allow processes to clear their TIF_SIGPENDING if TIF_FREEZE is set,
> to prevent them from racing with the freezer (like mysqld does, for 
example).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>

> ---
>  kernel/signal.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.23-mm1/kernel/signal.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.23-mm1.orig/kernel/signal.c
> +++ linux-2.6.23-mm1/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ void recalc_sigpending_and_wake(struct t
>  
>  void recalc_sigpending(void)
>  {
> -	if (!recalc_sigpending_tsk(current))
> +	if (!recalc_sigpending_tsk(current) && !freezing(current))
>  		clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);
>  
>  }
> 



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* [RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Do not allow freezing processes to clear TIF_SIGPENDING
@ 2007-10-18 22:22 Rafael J. Wysocki
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Rafael J. Wysocki @ 2007-10-18 22:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LKML; +Cc: pm list, Nigel Cunningham, Oleg Nesterov

From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

Do not allow processes to clear their TIF_SIGPENDING if TIF_FREEZE is set,
to prevent them from racing with the freezer (like mysqld does, for example).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
---
 kernel/signal.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.23-mm1/kernel/signal.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.23-mm1.orig/kernel/signal.c
+++ linux-2.6.23-mm1/kernel/signal.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ void recalc_sigpending_and_wake(struct t
 
 void recalc_sigpending(void)
 {
-	if (!recalc_sigpending_tsk(current))
+	if (!recalc_sigpending_tsk(current) && !freezing(current))
 		clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);
 
 }

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* Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Do not allow freezing processes to clear TIF_SIGPENDING
       [not found] <200710190022.36145.rjw@sisk.pl>
  2007-10-18 22:09 ` [RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Do not allow freezing processes to clear TIF_SIGPENDING Nigel Cunningham
@ 2007-10-19  7:55 ` Pavel Machek
  2007-10-19 21:34   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Pavel Machek @ 2007-10-19  7:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Rafael J. Wysocki; +Cc: pm list, Nigel Cunningham, LKML, Oleg Nesterov

On Fri 2007-10-19 00:22:35, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> 
> Do not allow processes to clear their TIF_SIGPENDING if TIF_FREEZE is set,
> to prevent them from racing with the freezer (like mysqld does, for example).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

ACK. We want this in 2.6.24.
									Pavel

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* Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Do not allow freezing processes to clear TIF_SIGPENDING
  2007-10-19  7:55 ` Pavel Machek
@ 2007-10-19 21:34   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Rafael J. Wysocki @ 2007-10-19 21:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Pavel Machek; +Cc: pm list, Nigel Cunningham, LKML, Oleg Nesterov

On Friday, 19 October 2007 09:55, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2007-10-19 00:22:35, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> > 
> > Do not allow processes to clear their TIF_SIGPENDING if TIF_FREEZE is set,
> > to prevent them from racing with the freezer (like mysqld does, for example).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> 
> ACK. We want this in 2.6.24.

Sure, we do.

Greetings,
Rafael

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