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author | Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> | 2012-03-05 14:59:14 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2012-03-05 15:49:42 -0800 |
commit | 6027ce497d44dd8eae1a9215789df178f6b422cc (patch) | |
tree | 5844f0d3899a7a3214cb1145b3d9a8f9660dd7c7 /tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c | |
parent | 6e27f63edbd7ab893258e16500171dd1270a1369 (diff) |
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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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