From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] do_wait: fix the theoretical race with stop/trace/cont
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:46:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090507064650.GA15878@redhat.com> (raw)
do_wait:
current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
... search for the task to reap ...
In theory, the ->state changing can leak into the critical section.
Since the child can change its status under read_lock(tasklist) in
parallel (finish_stop/ptrace_stop), we can miss the wakeup if
__wake_up_parent() sees us in TASK_RUNNING state. Add the barrier.
Also, use __set_current_state() to set TASK_RUNNING.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
kernel/exit.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- PTRACE/kernel/exit.c~5_MB 2009-05-07 05:34:40.000000000 +0200
+++ PTRACE/kernel/exit.c 2009-05-07 05:43:06.000000000 +0200
@@ -1581,7 +1581,7 @@ repeat:
(!wo->wo_pid || hlist_empty(&wo->wo_pid->tasks[wo->wo_type])))
goto notask;
- current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
+ set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
tsk = current;
do {
@@ -1608,7 +1608,7 @@ notask:
}
}
end:
- current->state = TASK_RUNNING;
+ __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
remove_wait_queue(¤t->signal->wait_chldexit,&wait);
if (wo->wo_info) {
struct siginfo __user *infop = wo->wo_info;
next reply other threads:[~2009-05-07 6:52 UTC|newest]
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2009-05-07 6:46 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-05-07 7:29 ` [PATCH 5/5] do_wait: fix the theoretical race with stop/trace/cont Roland McGrath
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