Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH] de_thread: Don't confuse users do_each_thread. | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:16:49 -0600 |
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I can't seem to send out a correct patch out today with out sending it twice. I accidently grabbed my old version that sent to many arguments to detach_pid and so would not compile. Oops.
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Oleg Nesterov spotted two interesting bugs with the current de_thread code. The simplest is a long standing double decrement of __get_cpu_var(process_counts) in __unhash_process. Caused by two processes exiting when only one was created.
The other is that since we no longer detach from the thread_group list it is possible for do_each_thread when run under the tasklist_lock to see the same task_struct twice. Once on the task list as a thread_group_leader, and once on the thread list of another thread.
The double appearance in do_each_thread can cause a double increment of mm_core_waiters in zap_threads resulting in problems later on in coredump_wait.
To remedy those two problems this patch takes the simple approach of changing the old thread group leader into a child thread. The only routine in release_task that cares is __unhash_process, and it can be trivially seen that we handle cleaning up a thread group leader properly.
Since de_thread doesn't change the pid of the exiting leader process and instead shares it with the new leader process. I change thread_group_leader to recognize group leadership based on the group_leader field and not based on pids. This should also be slightly cheaper then the existing thread_group_leader macro.
I performed a quick audit and I couldn't see any user of thread_group_leader that cared how cared about the difference.
I believe this is 2.6.17 material as the bug is present in 2.6.17-rc1 and the fix is simple.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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fs/exec.c | 7 ++++++- include/linux/sched.h | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
e621f800b1de6684beb995014190b3ccaad5c0b3 diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 541f482..a3e4f6b 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1203,7 +1203,8 @@ #define do_each_thread(g, t) \ #define while_each_thread(g, t) \ while ((t = next_thread(t)) != g) -#define thread_group_leader(p) (p->pid == p->tgid) +/* de_thread depends on thread_group_leader not being a pid based check */ +#define thread_group_leader(p) (p == p->group_leader) static inline task_t *next_thread(task_t *p) { diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 0291a68..4d38ad0 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -723,7 +723,12 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct current->parent = current->real_parent = leader->real_parent; leader->parent = leader->real_parent = child_reaper; current->group_leader = current; - leader->group_leader = leader; + leader->group_leader = current; + + /* Reduce leader to a thread */ + detach_pid(leader, PIDTYPE_PGID); + detach_pid(leader, PIDTYPE_SID); + list_del_init(&leader->tasks); add_parent(current); add_parent(leader); -- 1.3.0.rc3.g6b3a - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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