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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2014-01-21 15:49:56 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-21 16:19:46 -0800
commit0c740d0afc3bff0a097ad03a1c8df92757516f5c (patch)
tree0408d1f977bfe4f93418675b201feaf53f69d9e3 /include/linux/init_task.h
parent9853a407b97d8d066b5a865173a4859a3e69fd8a (diff)
introduce for_each_thread() to replace the buggy while_each_thread()
while_each_thread() and next_thread() should die, almost every lockless usage is wrong. 1. Unless g == current, the lockless while_each_thread() is not safe. while_each_thread(g, t) can loop forever if g exits, next_thread() can't reach the unhashed thread in this case. Note that this can happen even if g is the group leader, it can exec. 2. Even if while_each_thread() itself was correct, people often use it wrongly. It was never safe to just take rcu_read_lock() and loop unless you verify that pid_alive(g) == T, even the first next_thread() can point to the already freed/reused memory. This patch adds signal_struct->thread_head and task->thread_node to create the normal rcu-safe list with the stable head. The new for_each_thread(g, t) helper is always safe under rcu_read_lock() as long as this task_struct can't go away. Note: of course it is ugly to have both task_struct->thread_node and the old task_struct->thread_group, we will kill it later, after we change the users of while_each_thread() to use for_each_thread(). Perhaps we can kill it even before we convert all users, we can reimplement next_thread(t) using the new thread_head/thread_node. But we can't do this right now because this will lead to subtle behavioural changes. For example, do/while_each_thread() always sees at least one task, while for_each_thread() can do nothing if the whole thread group has died. Or thread_group_empty(), currently its semantics is not clear unless thread_group_leader(p) and we need to audit the callers before we can change it. So this patch adds the new interface which has to coexist with the old one for some time, hopefully the next changes will be more or less straightforward and the old one will go away soon. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com> Tested-by: Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: "Ma, Xindong" <xindong.ma@intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: "Tu, Xiaobing" <xiaobing.tu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/init_task.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/init_task.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h
index f0e52383a001..1516a8ff8f92 100644
--- a/include/linux/init_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ extern struct fs_struct init_fs;
#define INIT_SIGNALS(sig) { \
.nr_threads = 1, \
+ .thread_head = LIST_HEAD_INIT(init_task.thread_node), \
.wait_chldexit = __WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_INITIALIZER(sig.wait_chldexit),\
.shared_pending = { \
.list = LIST_HEAD_INIT(sig.shared_pending.list), \
@@ -222,6 +223,7 @@ extern struct task_group root_task_group;
[PIDTYPE_SID] = INIT_PID_LINK(PIDTYPE_SID), \
}, \
.thread_group = LIST_HEAD_INIT(tsk.thread_group), \
+ .thread_node = LIST_HEAD_INIT(init_signals.thread_head), \
INIT_IDS \
INIT_PERF_EVENTS(tsk) \
INIT_TRACE_IRQFLAGS \