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author | Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> | 2005-09-14 12:54:06 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-09-14 13:26:34 -0400 |
commit | fb085cf1d4294824571815d487daccc0609543f0 (patch) | |
tree | e3a704026e65bf6fea0c7747f0fb75a506f54127 /mm | |
parent | 32a3658533c6f4c6bf370dd730213e802464ef9b (diff) |
[PATCH] Fix fs/exec.c:788 (de_thread()) BUG_ON
It turns out that the BUG_ON() in fs/exec.c: de_thread() is unreliable
and can trigger due to the test itself being racy.
de_thread() does
while (atomic_read(&sig->count) > count) {
}
.....
.....
BUG_ON(!thread_group_empty(current));
but release_task does
write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock)
__exit_signal
(this is where atomic_dec(&sig->count) is run)
__exit_sighand
__unhash_process
takes write lock on tasklist_lock
remove itself out of PIDTYPE_TGID list
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock)
so there's a clear (although small) window between the
atomic_dec(&sig->count) and the actual PIDTYPE_TGID unhashing of the
thread.
And actually there is no need for all threads to have exited at this
point, so we simply kill the BUG_ON.
Big thanks to Marc Lehmann who provided the test-case.
Fixes Bug 5170 (http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5170)
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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