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,
next 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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