signal: Exit RCU read-side critical section on each pass through loop
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:41:22 +0000 (11:41 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:07:04 +0000 (10:07 -0700)
commiteca1a08986f622c11b75b3b44d561a1f901c9cec
tree15a635d885e693d2ee86aed4bcf988e8269d3606
parentd7e29933969e5ca7c112ce1368a07911f4485dc2
signal: Exit RCU read-side critical section on each pass through loop

The kill_pid_info() can potentially loop indefinitely if tasks are created
and deleted sufficiently quickly, and if this happens, this function
will remain in a single RCU read-side critical section indefinitely.
This commit therefore exits the RCU read-side critical section on each
pass through the loop.  Because a race must happen to retry the loop,
this should have no performance impact in the common case.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
kernel/signal.c