From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Oleg Nesterov , Linus Torvalds Subject: [ 07/22] wake_up_process() should be never used to wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED task Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:15:28 -0800 Message-Id: <20130124211507.071788775@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130124211504.701368763@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130124211504.701368763@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Oleg Nesterov commit 9067ac85d533651b98c2ff903182a20cbb361fcb upstream. wake_up_process() should never wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED task. Change it to use TASK_NORMAL and add the WARN_ON(). TASK_ALL has no other users, probably can be killed. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/sched/core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -1688,7 +1688,8 @@ out: */ int wake_up_process(struct task_struct *p) { - return try_to_wake_up(p, TASK_ALL, 0); + WARN_ON(task_is_stopped_or_traced(p)); + return try_to_wake_up(p, TASK_NORMAL, 0); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(wake_up_process);