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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH rc1-mm] de_thread: fix deadlockable process addition
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 02:04:03 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060406220403.GA205@oleg> (raw)

On top of
	task-make-task-list-manipulations-rcu-safe.patch
	
This patch
	pidhash-kill-switch_exec_pids.patch

changed de_thread() so that it doesn't remove 'leader' from it's thread group.
However de_thread() still adds current to init_task.tasks without removing
'leader' from this list. What if another CLONE_VM task starts do_coredump()
after de_thread() drops tasklist_lock but before it calls release_task(leader) ?

do_coredump()->zap_threads() will find this thread group twice on init_task.tasks
list. And it will increment mm->core_waiters twice for the new leader (current in
de_thread). So, exit_mm()->complete(mm->core_startup_done) doesn't happen, and we
have a deadlock.

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

--- MM/fs/exec.c~0_DET	2006-04-06 22:37:33.000000000 +0400
+++ MM/fs/exec.c	2006-04-06 22:51:51.000000000 +0400
@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct 
 		attach_pid(current, PIDTYPE_PID,  current->pid);
 		attach_pid(current, PIDTYPE_PGID, current->signal->pgrp);
 		attach_pid(current, PIDTYPE_SID,  current->signal->session);
-		list_add_tail_rcu(&current->tasks, &init_task.tasks);
+		list_replace_rcu(&leader->tasks, &current->tasks);
 
 		current->parent = current->real_parent = leader->real_parent;
 		leader->parent = leader->real_parent = child_reaper;
--- MM/kernel/exit.c~0_DET	2006-03-23 23:02:53.000000000 +0300
+++ MM/kernel/exit.c	2006-04-06 23:01:37.000000000 +0400
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ static void __unhash_process(struct task
 		detach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PGID);
 		detach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_SID);
 
-		list_del_rcu(&p->tasks);
+		/* see de_thread()->list_replace_rcu() */
+		if (likely(p->tasks.prev != LIST_POISON2))
+			list_del_rcu(&p->tasks);
 		__get_cpu_var(process_counts)--;
 	}
 	list_del_rcu(&p->thread_group);


             reply	other threads:[~2006-04-06 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-06 22:04 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2006-04-06 22:58 ` [PATCH rc1-mm] de_thread: fix deadlockable process addition Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-07 23:46   ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-04-07 22:51     ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-07 22:56       ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-08  7:55         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-08 17:27           ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-04-08 16:07             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-08 21:13               ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-04-08 21:23                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-04-10 22:11                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-10 23:07             ` [PATCH] de_thread: Don't confuse users do_each_thread Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-10 23:16               ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-10 23:52                 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-04-11  6:18                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-11 10:19                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-04-11  7:25                     ` Ingo Oeser
2006-04-11  7:36                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-11 19:50                         ` Ingo Oeser
2006-04-11 10:05                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-04-11  5:23                   ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-11 10:47                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-04-11  6:23                   ` Eric W. Biederman

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