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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2012-10-26 19:46:06 +0200
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2012-10-26 14:27:49 -0700
commit5d8f72b55c275677865de670fa147ed318191d81 (patch)
tree58f4f571440f412861a232ed0c5753771e5a6e58 /kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
parentead5c473712eb26db792b18a4dc98fdb312883fe (diff)
downloadlinux-5d8f72b55c275677865de670fa147ed318191d81.tar.gz
freezer: change ptrace_stop/do_signal_stop to use freezable_schedule()
try_to_freeze_tasks() and cgroup_freezer rely on scheduler locks
to ensure that a task doing STOPPED/TRACED -> RUNNING transition
can't escape freezing. This mostly works, but ptrace_stop() does
not necessarily call schedule(), it can change task->state back to
RUNNING and check freezing() without any lock/barrier in between.

We could add the necessary barrier, but this patch changes
ptrace_stop() and do_signal_stop() to use freezable_schedule().
This fixes the race, freezer_count() and freezer_should_skip()
carefully avoid the race.

And this simplifies the code, try_to_freeze_tasks/update_if_frozen
no longer need to use task_is_stopped_or_traced() checks with the
non trivial assumptions. We can rely on the mechanism which was
specially designed to mark the sleeping task as "frozen enough".

v2: As Tejun pointed out, we can also change get_signal_to_deliver()
and move try_to_freeze() up before 'relock' label.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cgroup_freezer.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup_freezer.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c b/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
index 8a92b0e52099..bedefd9a22df 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
@@ -198,8 +198,7 @@ static void update_if_frozen(struct cgroup *cgroup, struct freezer *freezer)
 			 * completion.  Consider it frozen in addition to
 			 * the usual frozen condition.
 			 */
-			if (!frozen(task) && !task_is_stopped_or_traced(task) &&
-			    !freezer_should_skip(task))
+			if (!frozen(task) && !freezer_should_skip(task))
 				goto notyet;
 		}
 	}