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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Mathias Krause <Mathias.Krause@secunet.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] pids: init_struct_pid.tasks should never see the swapper process
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 21:50:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100510195014.GC5249@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100510194917.GA5249@redhat.com>

"statically initialize struct pid for swapper" commit 820e45db says:

	Statically initialize a struct pid for the swapper process (pid_t == 0)
	and attach it to init_task.  This is needed so task_pid(), task_pgrp()
	and task_session() interfaces work on the swapper process also.

OK, but:

	- it doesn't make sense to add init_task.pids[].node into
	  init_struct_pid.tasks[], and in fact this just wrong.

	  idle threads are special, they shouldn't be visible on any
	  global list. In particular do_each_pid_task(init_struct_pid)
	  shouldn't see swapper.

	  This is the actual reason why kill(0, SIGKILL) from /sbin/init
	  (which starts with 0,0 special pids) crashes the kernel. The
	  signal sent to pgid/sid == 0 must never see idle threads, even
	  if the previous patch fixed the crash itself.

	- we have other idle threads running on the non-boot CPUs, see
	  the next patch.

Change INIT_STRUCT_PID/INIT_PID_LINK to create the empty/unhashed
hlist_head/hlist_node. Like any other idle thread swapper can never exit,
so detach_pid()->__hlist_del() is not possible, but we could change
INIT_PID_LINK() to set pprev = &next if needed.

All we need is the valid swapper->pids[].pid == &init_struct_pid.

Reported-by: Mathias Krause <mathias.krause@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---

 include/linux/init_task.h |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- 34-rc1/include/linux/init_task.h~2_INIT_PID_DONT_LINK_SWAPPER	2010-05-10 19:45:27.000000000 +0200
+++ 34-rc1/include/linux/init_task.h	2010-05-10 20:26:08.000000000 +0200
@@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups;
 #define INIT_STRUCT_PID {						\
 	.count 		= ATOMIC_INIT(1),				\
 	.tasks		= {						\
-		{ .first = &init_task.pids[PIDTYPE_PID].node },		\
-		{ .first = &init_task.pids[PIDTYPE_PGID].node },	\
-		{ .first = &init_task.pids[PIDTYPE_SID].node },		\
+		{ .first = NULL },					\
+		{ .first = NULL },					\
+		{ .first = NULL },					\
 	},								\
 	.rcu		= RCU_HEAD_INIT,				\
 	.level		= 0,						\
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups;
 {								\
 	.node = {						\
 		.next = NULL,					\
-		.pprev = &init_struct_pid.tasks[type].first,	\
+		.pprev = NULL,					\
 	},							\
 	.pid = &init_struct_pid,				\
 }


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-10 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4BE01C86.3050908@secunet.com>
2010-05-09 18:45 ` kernel panic on kill(0, SIGTERM) with PGID == 0 Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-09 19:06   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-10  7:20   ` Mathias Krause
2010-05-10 19:49     ` [PATCH 0/4] swapper fixes (Was: kernel panic on kill(0, SIGTERM) with PGID == 0) Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-10 19:49       ` [PATCH 1/4] INIT_TASK() should initialize ->thread_group list Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-11  7:52         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-05-12  2:15         ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-05-12 15:54           ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-10 19:50       ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2010-05-11  9:54         ` [PATCH 2/4] pids: init_struct_pid.tasks should never see the swapper process Serge E. Hallyn
2010-05-12 16:03           ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-10 19:50       ` [PATCH 3/4] pids: fix fork_idle() to setup ->pids correctly Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-11  8:54         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-05-10 19:51       ` [PATCH 4/4] INIT_SIGHAND: use SIG_DFL instead of NULL Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-11  8:54         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-05-10 21:08       ` [PATCH 0/4] swapper fixes (Was: kernel panic on kill(0, SIGTERM) with PGID == 0) Andrew Morton
2010-05-10 21:41         ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-10 23:55       ` Roland McGrath

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