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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2010-11-05 16:53:42 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-01-07 13:58:52 -0800
commit2a71e215aa15cab942a814904e108d72dc86cfbb (patch)
treeee0b47b0830d5052bd6456e6915a4bdcadc3ffc8 /kernel
parent1084a6a86b13e66605f5c97c810286d0c02417dd (diff)
posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec
commit e0a70217107e6f9844628120412cb27bb4cea194 upstream. posix-cpu-timers.c correctly assumes that the dying process does posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() and removes all !CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD timers from signal->cpu_timers list. But, it also assumes that timer->it.cpu.task is always the group leader, and thus the dead ->task means the dead thread group. This is obviously not true after de_thread() changes the leader. After that almost every posix_cpu_timer_ method has problems. It is not simple to fix this bug correctly. First of all, I think that timer->it.cpu should use struct pid instead of task_struct. Also, the locking should be reworked completely. In particular, tasklist_lock should not be used at all. This all needs a lot of nontrivial and hard-to-test changes. Change __exit_signal() to do posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() when the old leader dies during exec. This is not the fix, just the temporary hack to hide the problem for 2.6.37 and stable. IOW, this is obviously wrong but this is what we currently have anyway: cpu timers do not work after mt exec. In theory this change adds another race. The exiting leader can detach the timers which were attached to the new leader. However, the window between de_thread() and release_task() is small, we can pretend that sys_timer_create() was called before de_thread(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index d72167d500cb..abc46d9cf5d8 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -95,6 +95,14 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
sig->tty = NULL;
} else {
/*
+ * This can only happen if the caller is de_thread().
+ * FIXME: this is the temporary hack, we should teach
+ * posix-cpu-timers to handle this case correctly.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(has_group_leader_pid(tsk)))
+ posix_cpu_timers_exit_group(tsk);
+
+ /*
* If there is any task waiting for the group exit
* then notify it:
*/