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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2008-11-17 09:39:47 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-17 10:49:35 -0500
commitad133ba3dc283300e5b62b5b7211d2f39fbf6ee7 (patch)
tree4762492d6c564e0ac1ec47122a0d0d49b0d41e90 /Documentation/mips
parent29d7b90c15035741d15421b36000509212b3e135 (diff)
sched, signals: fix the racy usage of ->signal in account_group_xxx/run_posix_cpu_timers
Impact: fix potential NULL dereference Contrary to ad474caca3e2a0550b7ce0706527ad5ab389a4d4 changelog, other acct_group_xxx() helpers can be called after exit_notify() by timer tick. Thanks to Roland for pointing out this. Somehow I missed this simple fact when I read the original patch, and I am afraid I confused Frank during the discussion. Sorry. Fortunately, these helpers work with current, we can check ->exit_state to ensure that ->signal can't go away under us. Also, add the comment and compiler barrier to account_group_exec_runtime(), to make sure we load ->signal only once. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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