freezer: do not send signals to kernel threads

The freezer should not send signals to kernel threads, since that may lead to
subtle problems.  In particular, commit
b74d0deb968e1f85942f17080eace015ce3c332c has changed recalc_sigpending_tsk()
so that it doesn't clear TIF_SIGPENDING.  For this reason, if the freezer
continues to send fake signals to kernel threads and the freezing of kernel
threads fails, some of them may be running with TIF_SIGPENDING set forever.

Accordingly, recalc_sigpending_tsk() shouldn't set the task's TIF_SIGPENDING
flag if TIF_FREEZE is set.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

3 files changed, 93 insertions, 46 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt
index d5c65e8d6a37..38b57248fd61 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt
@@ -19,12 +19,13 @@ we only consider hibernation, but the description also applies to suspend).
 Namely, as the first step of the hibernation procedure the function
 freeze_processes() (defined in kernel/power/process.c) is called.  It executes
 try_to_freeze_tasks() that sets TIF_FREEZE for all of the freezable tasks and
-sends a fake signal to each of them.  A task that receives such a signal and has
-TIF_FREEZE set, should react to it by calling the refrigerator() function
-(defined in kernel/power/process.c), which sets the task's PF_FROZEN flag,
-changes its state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and makes it loop until PF_FROZEN is
-cleared for it.  Then, we say that the task is 'frozen' and therefore the set of
-functions handling this mechanism is called 'the freezer' (these functions are
+either wakes them up, if they are kernel threads, or sends fake signals to them,
+if they are user space processes.  A task that has TIF_FREEZE set, should react
+to it by calling the function called refrigerator() (defined in
+kernel/power/process.c), which sets the task's PF_FROZEN flag, changes its state
+to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and makes it loop until PF_FROZEN is cleared for it.
+Then, we say that the task is 'frozen' and therefore the set of functions
+handling this mechanism is referred to as 'the freezer' (these functions are
 defined in kernel/power/process.c and include/linux/freezer.h).  User space
 processes are generally frozen before kernel threads.
 
@@ -35,21 +36,27 @@ task enter refrigerator() if the flag is set.
 
 For user space processes try_to_freeze() is called automatically from the
 signal-handling code, but the freezable kernel threads need to call it
-explicitly in suitable places.  The code to do this may look like the following:
+explicitly in suitable places or use the wait_event_freezable() or
+wait_event_freezable_timeout() macros (defined in include/linux/freezer.h)
+that combine interruptible sleep with checking if TIF_FREEZE is set and calling
+try_to_freeze().  The main loop of a freezable kernel thread may look like the
+following one:
 
+        set_freezable();
         do {
                 hub_events();
-                wait_event_interruptible(khubd_wait,
-                                        !list_empty(&hub_event_list));
-                try_to_freeze();
-        } while (!signal_pending(current));
+                wait_event_freezable(khubd_wait,
+                                !list_empty(&hub_event_list) ||
+                                kthread_should_stop());
+        } while (!kthread_should_stop() || !list_empty(&hub_event_list));
 
 (from drivers/usb/core/hub.c::hub_thread()).
 
 If a freezable kernel thread fails to call try_to_freeze() after the freezer has
 set TIF_FREEZE for it, the freezing of tasks will fail and the entire
 hibernation operation will be cancelled.  For this reason, freezable kernel
-threads must call try_to_freeze() somewhere.
+threads must call try_to_freeze() somewhere or use one of the
+wait_event_freezable() and wait_event_freezable_timeout() macros.
 
 After the system memory state has been restored from a hibernation image and
 devices have been reinitialized, the function thaw_processes() is called in
diff --git a/kernel/power/process.c b/kernel/power/process.c
index dba2f3acb4f8..4da125ee533d 100644
--- a/kernel/power/process.c
+++ b/kernel/power/process.c
@@ -75,21 +75,79 @@ void refrigerator(void)
         __set_current_state(save);
 }
 
-static void freeze_task(struct task_struct *p)
+static void fake_signal_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, int resume)
 {
         unsigned long flags;
 
-        if (!freezing(p)) {
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
+        signal_wake_up(p, resume);
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
+}
+
+static void send_fake_signal(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+        if (p->state == TASK_STOPPED)
+                force_sig_specific(SIGSTOP, p);
+        fake_signal_wake_up(p, p->state == TASK_STOPPED);
+}
+
+static int has_mm(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+        return (p->mm && !(p->flags & PF_BORROWED_MM));
+}
+
+/**
+ *      freeze_task - send a freeze request to given task
+ *      @p: task to send the request to
+ *      @with_mm_only: if set, the request will only be sent if the task has its
+ *              own mm
+ *      Return value: 0, if @with_mm_only is set and the task has no mm of its
+ *              own or the task is frozen, 1, otherwise
+ *
+ *      The freeze request is sent by seting the tasks's TIF_FREEZE flag and
+ *      either sending a fake signal to it or waking it up, depending on whether
+ *      or not it has its own mm (ie. it is a user land task).  If @with_mm_only
+ *      is set and the task has no mm of its own (ie. it is a kernel thread),
+ *      its TIF_FREEZE flag should not be set.
+ *
+ *      The task_lock() is necessary to prevent races with exit_mm() or
+ *      use_mm()/unuse_mm() from occuring.
+ */
+static int freeze_task(struct task_struct *p, int with_mm_only)
+{
+        int ret = 1;
+
+        task_lock(p);
+        if (freezing(p)) {
+                if (has_mm(p)) {
+                        if (!signal_pending(p))
+                                fake_signal_wake_up(p, 0);
+                } else {
+                        if (with_mm_only)
+                                ret = 0;
+                        else
+                                wake_up_state(p, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+                }
+        } else {
                 rmb();
-                if (!frozen(p)) {
-                        set_freeze_flag(p);
-                        if (p->state == TASK_STOPPED)
-                                force_sig_specific(SIGSTOP, p);
-                        spin_lock_irqsave(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
-                        signal_wake_up(p, p->state == TASK_STOPPED);
-                        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
+                if (frozen(p)) {
+                        ret = 0;
+                } else {
+                        if (has_mm(p)) {
+                                set_freeze_flag(p);
+                                send_fake_signal(p);
+                        } else {
+                                if (with_mm_only) {
+                                        ret = 0;
+                                } else {
+                                        set_freeze_flag(p);
+                                        wake_up_state(p, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+                                }
+                        }
                 }
         }
+        task_unlock(p);
+        return ret;
 }
 
 static void cancel_freezing(struct task_struct *p)
@@ -119,31 +177,14 @@ static int try_to_freeze_tasks(int freeze_user_space)
                         if (frozen(p) || !freezeable(p))
                                 continue;
 
-                        if (freeze_user_space) {
-                                if (p->state == TASK_TRACED &&
-                                    frozen(p->parent)) {
-                                        cancel_freezing(p);
-                                        continue;
-                                }
-                                /*
-                                 * Kernel threads should not have TIF_FREEZE set
-                                 * at this point, so we must ensure that either
-                                 * p->mm is not NULL *and* PF_BORROWED_MM is
-                                 * unset, or TIF_FRREZE is left unset.
-                                 * The task_lock() is necessary to prevent races
-                                 * with exit_mm() or use_mm()/unuse_mm() from
-                                 * occuring.
-                                 */
-                                task_lock(p);
-                                if (!p->mm || (p->flags & PF_BORROWED_MM)) {
-                                        task_unlock(p);
-                                        continue;
-                                }
-                                freeze_task(p);
-                                task_unlock(p);
-                        } else {
-                                freeze_task(p);
+                        if (p->state == TASK_TRACED && frozen(p->parent)) {
+                                cancel_freezing(p);
+                                continue;
                         }
+
+                        if (!freeze_task(p, freeze_user_space))
+                                continue;
+
                         if (!freezer_should_skip(p))
                                 todo++;
                 } while_each_thread(g, p);
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 2124ffadcfde..e4f059cd9867 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@ static inline int has_pending_signals(sigset_t *signal, sigset_t *blocked)
 static int recalc_sigpending_tsk(struct task_struct *t)
 {
         if (t->signal->group_stop_count > 0 ||
-            (freezing(t)) ||
             PENDING(&t->pending, &t->blocked) ||
             PENDING(&t->signal->shared_pending, &t->blocked)) {
                 set_tsk_thread_flag(t, TIF_SIGPENDING);