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authorAlexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>2005-09-14 12:54:06 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-14 13:26:34 -0400
commitfb085cf1d4294824571815d487daccc0609543f0 (patch)
treee3a704026e65bf6fea0c7747f0fb75a506f54127 /mm
parent32a3658533c6f4c6bf370dd730213e802464ef9b (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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