From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756076AbaJ1WRq (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2014 18:17:46 -0400 Received: from e8.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.138]:57417 "EHLO e8.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755159AbaJ1WRn (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2014 18:17:43 -0400 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, dvhart@linux.intel.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, bobby.prani@gmail.com, "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/2] signal: Document the RCU protection of ->sighand Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:13:48 -0700 Message-Id: <1414534428-27918-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.5 In-Reply-To: <1414534428-27918-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20141028221330.GA27479@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1414534428-27918-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 14102822-0029-0000-0000-000000F4FDC2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Oleg Nesterov __cleanup_sighand() frees sighand without RCU grace period. This is correct but this looks "obviously buggy" and constantly confuses the readers, add the comments to explain how this works. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/fork.c | 5 ++++- kernel/signal.c | 12 +++++++++++- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 9b7d746d6d62..9ca84189cfc2 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1022,11 +1022,14 @@ void __cleanup_sighand(struct sighand_struct *sighand) { if (atomic_dec_and_test(&sighand->count)) { signalfd_cleanup(sighand); + /* + * sighand_cachep is SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU so we can free it + * without an RCU grace period, see __lock_task_sighand(). + */ kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, sighand); } } - /* * Initialize POSIX timer handling for a thread group. */ diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 54820984a872..19e35135fc60 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -1275,7 +1275,17 @@ struct sighand_struct *__lock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk, local_irq_restore(*flags); break; } - + /* + * This sighand can be already freed and even reused, but + * we rely on SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU and sighand_ctor() which + * initializes ->siglock: this slab can't go away, it has + * the same object type, ->siglock can't be reinitialized. + * + * We need to ensure that tsk->sighand is still the same + * after we take the lock, we can race with de_thread() or + * __exit_signal(). In the latter case the next iteration + * must see ->sighand == NULL. + */ spin_lock(&sighand->siglock); if (likely(sighand == tsk->sighand)) { rcu_read_unlock(); -- 1.8.1.5