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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
Subject: [PATCH] fix secondary oops in sighand locking
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 19:54:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <74240000.1045454047@[10.10.2.4]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71980000.1045449545@[10.10.2.4]>

>> Ran your patch ... but I get plenty of these now:
>> 
>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004
>> ...
> 
> Ah, I see what happened, I think .... the locking used to be inside
> collect_sigign_sigcatch, and you moved it out into task_sig ... but 
> there were two callers of collect_sigign_sigcatch, the other one being
> proc_pid_stat ... which now needs to have appropriate locking added to
> it as well to match the change ... I'll see if I can get something 
> together that works for that.

OK, with this small extra patch, we now survive a beating with SDET
without oops or freeze. The patch adds the locking that was removed
from collect_sigign_sigcatch to the second caller (proc_pid_stat),
as well as task_sig.

diff -urpN -X /home/fletch/.diff.exclude linus-sdet/fs/proc/array.c linus-sdet-fix/fs/proc/array.c
--- linus-sdet/fs/proc/array.c	Sun Feb 16 18:48:04 2003
+++ linus-sdet-fix/fs/proc/array.c	Sun Feb 16 18:51:34 2003
@@ -316,7 +316,12 @@ int proc_pid_stat(struct task_struct *ta
 
 	wchan = get_wchan(task);
 
-	collect_sigign_sigcatch(task, &sigign, &sigcatch);
+	sigemptyset(&sigign);
+	sigemptyset(&sigcatch);
+	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	if (task->sighand)
+		collect_sigign_sigcatch(task, &sigign, &sigcatch);
+	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 
 	/* scale priority and nice values from timeslices to -20..20 */
 	/* to make it look like a "normal" Unix priority/nice value  */


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-17  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20030215172407.1fdd41fd.akpm@digeo.com>
2003-02-16  1:35 ` Fw: 2.5.61 oops running SDET Linus Torvalds
2003-02-16  2:09   ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-16  2:27     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-16  4:00       ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-16 13:05         ` Anton Blanchard
2003-02-16 16:39           ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-16 18:21             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-16 19:06               ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-16 19:17                 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-16 21:15                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-16 21:21                     ` Manfred Spraul
2003-02-16 22:34                       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-16 23:08                         ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-16 23:32                           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-16 19:18                 ` Manfred Spraul
2003-02-16 19:19                 ` more signal locking bugs? Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-16 19:24                   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-16 19:37                     ` Manfred Spraul
2003-02-16 19:42                       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-16 20:01                         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-16 20:07                         ` Manfred Spraul
2003-02-16 20:10                           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-16 20:23                             ` Manfred Spraul
2003-02-17  0:23                           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-17  2:05                             ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-17  2:39                               ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-17  3:53                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-17  5:07                                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-17  6:17                                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-17 17:09                                   ` Magnus Naeslund(f)
2003-02-17  3:54                                 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2003-02-17  6:36                             ` Manfred Spraul
2003-02-17 19:06                               ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-16 18:07         ` Fw: 2.5.61 oops running SDET Linus Torvalds
2003-02-16 18:26           ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-16 18:36             ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-16  2:48     ` Zwane Mwaikambo

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