[PATCH] NPTL signal delivery deadlock fix

This bug is quite subtle and only happens in a very interesting
situation where a real-time threaded process is in the middle of a
coredump when someone whacks it with a SIGKILL.  However, this deadlock
leaves the system pretty hosed and you have to reboot to recover.

Not good for real-time priority-preemption applications like our
telephony application, with 90+ real-time (SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR)
processes, many of them multi-threaded, interacting with each other for
high volume call processing.

Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index ca1186eef938..d282fea81138 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ static void handle_stop_signal(int sig, struct task_struct *p)
 {
         struct task_struct *t;
 
-        if (p->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT)
+        if (p->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT)
                 /*
                  * The process is in the middle of dying already.
                  */