From 5d8f72b55c275677865de670fa147ed318191d81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:46:06 +0200 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- kernel/power/process.c | 13 +------------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/power') diff --git a/kernel/power/process.c b/kernel/power/process.c index 87da817f9e13..d5a258b60c6f 100644 --- a/kernel/power/process.c +++ b/kernel/power/process.c @@ -48,18 +48,7 @@ static int try_to_freeze_tasks(bool user_only) if (p == current || !freeze_task(p)) continue; - /* - * Now that we've done set_freeze_flag, don't - * perturb a task in TASK_STOPPED or TASK_TRACED. - * It is "frozen enough". If the task does wake - * up, it will immediately call try_to_freeze. - * - * Because freeze_task() goes through p's scheduler lock, it's - * guaranteed that TASK_STOPPED/TRACED -> TASK_RUNNING - * transition can't race with task state testing here. - */ - if (!task_is_stopped_or_traced(p) && - !freezer_should_skip(p)) + if (!freezer_should_skip(p)) todo++; } while_each_thread(g, p); read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); -- cgit v1.2.3