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author | Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> | 2015-01-08 14:32:12 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2015-01-08 15:10:51 -0800 |
commit | 3245d6acab981a2388ffb877c7ecc97e763c59d4 (patch) | |
tree | 9fcebbce2ca688948665292358d22809f80140ba /net/lapb/lapb_subr.c | |
parent | eb4f73b4ca6c04f31af6f1ff1bf11b5020a1216f (diff) |
exit: fix race between wait_consider_task() and wait_task_zombie()
wait_consider_task() checks EXIT_ZOMBIE after EXIT_DEAD/EXIT_TRACE and
both checks can fail if we race with EXIT_ZOMBIE -> EXIT_DEAD/EXIT_TRACE
change in between, gcc needs to reload p->exit_state after
security_task_wait(). In this case ->notask_error will be wrongly
cleared and do_wait() can hang forever if it was the last eligible
child.
Many thanks to Arne who carefully investigated the problem.
Note: this bug is very old but it was pure theoretical until commit
b3ab03160dfa ("wait: completely ignore the EXIT_DEAD tasks"). Before
this commit "-O2" was probably enough to guarantee that compiler won't
read ->exit_state twice.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Arne Goedeke <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arne Goedeke <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> [3.15+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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