* BUG: [RESEND] de_thread()
@ 2002-10-12 11:36 Oleg Nesterov
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From: Oleg Nesterov @ 2002-10-12 11:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Ingo Molnar
Hello.
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Suppose process P in thread group was cloned _without_
> CLONE_DETACHED flag. Then another thread, group_leader
> for simplicity, does exec and calls de_thread(). It kills
> P via _broadcast_thread_group(). While doing do_exit(),
> P skips release_task(), because its exit_signal != -1,
> and becomes TASK_ZOMBIE.
>
> Then leader calls schedule() with TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
> in while(oldsig->count > 1) {...} and sleeps forever,
> because nobody can do wake_up_process(sig->group_exit_task).
Oleg.
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