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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] exec: kill unsafe BUG_ON(sig->count) checks
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:39:36 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070818173936.GA206@tv-sign.ru> (raw)

de_thread:

	if (atomic_read(&oldsighand->count) <= 1)
		BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sig->count) != 1);

This is not safe without the rmb() in between. The results of two correctly
ordered __exit_signal()->atomic_dec_and_test()'s could be seen out of order
on our CPU.

The same is true for the "thread_group_empty()" case, __unhash_process()'s
changes could be seen before atomic_dec_and_test(&sig->count).

On some platforms (including i386) atomic_read() doesn't provide even the
compiler barrier, in that case these checks are simply racy.

Remove these BUG_ON()'s. Alternatively, we can do something like

	BUG_ON( ({ smp_rmb(); atomic_read(&sig->count) != 1; }) );

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

--- t/fs/exec.c~1_BUG_ON	2007-08-18 17:36:58.000000000 +0400
+++ t/fs/exec.c	2007-08-18 18:19:41.000000000 +0400
@@ -784,7 +784,6 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct 
 	 * and we can just re-use it all.
 	 */
 	if (atomic_read(&oldsighand->count) <= 1) {
-		BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sig->count) != 1);
 		signalfd_detach(tsk);
 		exit_itimers(sig);
 		return 0;
@@ -929,8 +928,6 @@ no_thread_group:
 	if (leader)
 		release_task(leader);
 
-	BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sig->count) != 1);
-
 	if (atomic_read(&oldsighand->count) == 1) {
 		/*
 		 * Now that we nuked the rest of the thread group,


             reply	other threads:[~2007-08-18 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-18 17:39 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2007-08-18 22:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-18 23:27 ` Roland McGrath

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