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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2012-10-26 19:46:06 +0200 |
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committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2012-10-26 14:27:49 -0700 |
commit | 5d8f72b55c275677865de670fa147ed318191d81 (patch) | |
tree | 58f4f571440f412861a232ed0c5753771e5a6e58 /kernel/freezer.c | |
parent | ead5c473712eb26db792b18a4dc98fdb312883fe (diff) | |
download | lwn-5d8f72b55c275677865de670fa147ed318191d81.tar.gz lwn-5d8f72b55c275677865de670fa147ed318191d81.zip |
freezer: change ptrace_stop/do_signal_stop to use freezable_schedule()
try_to_freeze_tasks() and cgroup_freezer rely on scheduler locks
to ensure that a task doing STOPPED/TRACED -> RUNNING transition
can't escape freezing. This mostly works, but ptrace_stop() does
not necessarily call schedule(), it can change task->state back to
RUNNING and check freezing() without any lock/barrier in between.
We could add the necessary barrier, but this patch changes
ptrace_stop() and do_signal_stop() to use freezable_schedule().
This fixes the race, freezer_count() and freezer_should_skip()
carefully avoid the race.
And this simplifies the code, try_to_freeze_tasks/update_if_frozen
no longer need to use task_is_stopped_or_traced() checks with the
non trivial assumptions. We can rely on the mechanism which was
specially designed to mark the sleeping task as "frozen enough".
v2: As Tejun pointed out, we can also change get_signal_to_deliver()
and move try_to_freeze() up before 'relock' label.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/freezer.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/freezer.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/freezer.c b/kernel/freezer.c index 11f82a4d4eae..c38893b0efba 100644 --- a/kernel/freezer.c +++ b/kernel/freezer.c @@ -116,17 +116,10 @@ bool freeze_task(struct task_struct *p) return false; } - if (!(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) { + if (!(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) fake_signal_wake_up(p); - /* - * fake_signal_wake_up() goes through p's scheduler - * lock and guarantees that TASK_STOPPED/TRACED -> - * TASK_RUNNING transition can't race with task state - * testing in try_to_freeze_tasks(). - */ - } else { + else wake_up_state(p, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); - } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&freezer_lock, flags); return true; |