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Subject[PATCH] de_thread: Don't confuse users do_each_thread.
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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.

---

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>


---

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
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