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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2008-06-08 19:20:41 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-06-10 11:37:25 +0200
commit16882c1e962b4be5122fc05aaf2afc10fd9e2d15 (patch)
treec39cae4ae4874998d7e3486cd57d57613b05a89c /kernel/sched.c
parentMerge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm (diff)
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sched: fix TASK_WAKEKILL vs SIGKILL race
schedule() has the special "TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE && signal_pending()" case, this allows us to do current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE; schedule(); without fear to sleep with pending signal. However, the code like current->state = TASK_KILLABLE; schedule(); is not right, schedule() doesn't take TASK_WAKEKILL into account. This means that mutex_lock_killable(), wait_for_completion_killable(), down_killable(), schedule_timeout_killable() can miss SIGKILL (and btw the second SIGKILL has no effect). Introduce the new helper, signal_pending_state(), and change schedule() to use it. Hopefully it will have more users, that is why the task's state is passed separately. Note this "__TASK_STOPPED | __TASK_TRACED" check in signal_pending_state(). This is needed to preserve the current behaviour (ptrace_notify). I hope this check will be removed soon, but this (afaics good) change needs the separate discussion. The fast path is "(state & (INTERRUPTIBLE | WAKEKILL)) + signal_pending(p)", basically the same that schedule() does now. However, this patch of course bloats schedule(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index bfb8ad8ed171..2c65bf29d133 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -4159,12 +4159,10 @@ need_resched_nonpreemptible:
clear_tsk_need_resched(prev);
if (prev->state && !(preempt_count() & PREEMPT_ACTIVE)) {
- if (unlikely((prev->state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) &&
- signal_pending(prev))) {
+ if (unlikely(signal_pending_state(prev->state, prev)))
prev->state = TASK_RUNNING;
- } else {
+ else
deactivate_task(rq, prev, 1);
- }
switch_count = &prev->nvcsw;
}