From 6027ce497d44dd8eae1a9215789df178f6b422cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 14:59:14 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] hung_task: fix the broken rcu_lock_break() logic check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks()->rcu_lock_break() introduced by "softlockup: check all tasks in hung_task" commit ce9dbe24 looks absolutely wrong. - rcu_lock_break() does put_task_struct(). If the task has exited it is not safe to even read its ->state, nothing protects this task_struct. - The TASK_DEAD checks are wrong too. Contrary to the comment, we can't use it to check if the task was unhashed. It can be unhashed without TASK_DEAD, or it can be valid with TASK_DEAD. For example, an autoreaping task can do release_task(current) long before it sets TASK_DEAD in do_exit(). Or, a zombie task can have ->state == TASK_DEAD but release_task() was not called, and in this case we must not break the loop. Change this code to check pid_alive() instead, and do this before we drop the reference to the task_struct. Note: while_each_thread() under rcu_read_lock() is not really safe, it can livelock. This will be fixed later, but fortunately in this case the "max_count" logic saves us anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Mandeep Singh Baines Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Tetsuo Handa Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/hung_task.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/hung_task.c b/kernel/hung_task.c index 2e48ec0c2e91..c21449f85a2a 100644 --- a/kernel/hung_task.c +++ b/kernel/hung_task.c @@ -119,15 +119,20 @@ static void check_hung_task(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long timeout) * For preemptible RCU it is sufficient to call rcu_read_unlock in order * to exit the grace period. For classic RCU, a reschedule is required. */ -static void rcu_lock_break(struct task_struct *g, struct task_struct *t) +static bool rcu_lock_break(struct task_struct *g, struct task_struct *t) { + bool can_cont; + get_task_struct(g); get_task_struct(t); rcu_read_unlock(); cond_resched(); rcu_read_lock(); + can_cont = pid_alive(g) && pid_alive(t); put_task_struct(t); put_task_struct(g); + + return can_cont; } /* @@ -154,9 +159,7 @@ static void check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks(unsigned long timeout) goto unlock; if (!--batch_count) { batch_count = HUNG_TASK_BATCHING; - rcu_lock_break(g, t); - /* Exit if t or g was unhashed during refresh. */ - if (t->state == TASK_DEAD || g->state == TASK_DEAD) + if (!rcu_lock_break(g, t)) goto unlock; } /* use "==" to skip the TASK_KILLABLE tasks waiting on NFS */