fix group stop with exit race
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:19:12 +0000 (04:19 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:22:27 +0000 (09:22 -0800)
commitd12619b5ff5664623524aef796514d1946ea3b4a
tree23140ca0148f9154440d3056e2040d8df468a24b
parent430c623121ea88ca80595c99fdc63b7f8a803ae5
fix group stop with exit race

do_signal_stop() counts all sub-thread and sets ->group_stop_count
accordingly.  Every thread should decrement ->group_stop_count and stop,
the last one should notify the parent.

However a sub-thread can exit before it notices the signal_pending(), or it
may be somewhere in do_exit() already.  In that case the group stop never
finishes properly.

Note: this is a minimal fix, we can add some optimizations later.  Say we
can return quickly if thread_group_empty().  Also, we can move some signal
related code from exit_notify() to exit_signals().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/signal.h
kernel/exit.c
kernel/signal.c