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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2010-05-26 14:44:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-27 09:12:52 -0700
commitf20011457f41c11edb5ea5038ad0c8ea9f392023 (patch)
tree428377008bd670bc18e6a7bc140bbcb6c275e9f9 /include/linux/init_task.h
parentfa2755e20ab0c7215d99c2dc7c262e98a09b01df (diff)
pids: init_struct_pid.tasks should never see the swapper process
"statically initialize struct pid for swapper" commit 820e45db says: Statically initialize a struct pid for the swapper process (pid_t == 0) and attach it to init_task. This is needed so task_pid(), task_pgrp() and task_session() interfaces work on the swapper process also. OK, but: - it doesn't make sense to add init_task.pids[].node into init_struct_pid.tasks[], and in fact this just wrong. idle threads are special, they shouldn't be visible on any global list. In particular do_each_pid_task(init_struct_pid) shouldn't see swapper. This is the actual reason why kill(0, SIGKILL) from /sbin/init (which starts with 0,0 special pids) crashes the kernel. The signal sent to pgid/sid == 0 must never see idle threads, even if the previous patch fixed the crash itself. - we have other idle threads running on the non-boot CPUs, see the next patch. Change INIT_STRUCT_PID/INIT_PID_LINK to create the empty/unhashed hlist_head/hlist_node. Like any other idle thread swapper can never exit, so detach_pid()->__hlist_del() is not possible, but we could change INIT_PID_LINK() to set pprev = &next if needed. All we need is the valid swapper->pids[].pid == &init_struct_pid. Reported-by: Mathias Krause <mathias.krause@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Mathias Krause <Mathias.Krause@secunet.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/init_task.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/init_task.h8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h
index 6deb1ba52fdb..94fecb748a28 100644
--- a/include/linux/init_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups;
#define INIT_STRUCT_PID { \
.count = ATOMIC_INIT(1), \
.tasks = { \
- { .first = &init_task.pids[PIDTYPE_PID].node }, \
- { .first = &init_task.pids[PIDTYPE_PGID].node }, \
- { .first = &init_task.pids[PIDTYPE_SID].node }, \
+ { .first = NULL }, \
+ { .first = NULL }, \
+ { .first = NULL }, \
}, \
.level = 0, \
.numbers = { { \
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups;
{ \
.node = { \
.next = NULL, \
- .pprev = &init_struct_pid.tasks[type].first, \
+ .pprev = NULL, \
}, \
.pid = &init_struct_pid, \
}