Re: [PATCH 0/2] initial while_each_thread() fixes

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

argh, sorry, I didn't finish my email...

On 12/03, Sergey Dyasly wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 16:24:23 +0100
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Recently people started to report they actually hit this problem in
> > oom_kill.c. This doesn't really matter and I can be wrong, but in
> > fact I do not think they really hit this race, it is very unlikely.
>
> The race is very easy to catch if you have a process with several threads,
> all of which allocates memory simultaneously. This leads to:
>
>   1) OOMk selects and sends SIGKILL to one of the threads
>
>   2) another thread invokes OOMk and the first thread gets selected,
>      but it gets unhashed before while_each_thread...

Yes, but this is what I meant.

It was unhashed before even while_each_thread(g), and it should be
never used unless you ensure that g is still alive.

But this doesn't matter. while_each_thread() was buggy anyway. And
(perhaps even more importantly) it was not easy to use it correctly,
so I finally decided to add another helper which only needs the
stable task_struct.

> The patches look correct and my test case no longer hangs, so
>
> Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com>

Thanks!

Oleg.