Re: [PATCH] sigqueue_free: fix the race with collect_signal()

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>]

On 08/27, taoyue wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >On 08/24, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> >>>>>          
> >>>>I know, using current->sighand->siglock to prevent one sigqueue
> >>>>is free twice. I want to know whether it is possible that the two
> >>>>function is called in different thread. If that, the spin_lock is 
> >>>>useless.
> >>>>   
> >>>>        
> >>>Not sure I understand. Yes, it is possible they are called by 2 different
> >>>threads, that is why we had a race. But all threads in the same thread
> >>>group have the same ->sighand, and thus the same ->sighand->siglock.
> >>>      
> I has applied the new patch, and start test program last Friday.
> So far, the test program has run for three days.

Great, thanks.

> In my test program, all threads is created in one process, so they
> are in the same thread group. If two thread is not in the same thread
> group, they have the different ->sighand->siglock. In this case, the
> lock can't prevent the sigqueue object from race condition.

If two thread are not in the same thread, they can't access the same
SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC sigqueue. That is why sigqueue_free() uses current->sighand.
Otherwise, this lock doesn't make any sense, and can't protect list_del(q->list).

Oleg.