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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2013-10-11 17:41:11 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2013-12-09 16:53:51 +0100
commit3d7a1427e4ce545e949e9bccb75d0ca8d941d93c (patch)
tree6406beef9e8f60f7fb920c9100bdf2d60639289f /kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
parent50875788a1d4a3f662a27ed13cd05282d835939a (diff)
posix-timers: Use sighand lock instead of tasklist_lock on timer deletion
Timer deletion doesn't need the tasklist lock. We need to protect against: * concurrent access to the lists p->cputime_expires and p->sighand->cputime_expires * task reaping that may also delete the timer list entry * timer firing We already hold the timer lock which protects us against concurrent timer firing. The rest only need the targets sighand to be locked. So hold it and drop the use of tasklist_lock there. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c17
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 71a07699a36b..9641958ddb3e 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -377,27 +377,32 @@ static int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)
*/
static int posix_cpu_timer_del(struct k_itimer *timer)
{
- struct task_struct *p = timer->it.cpu.task;
int ret = 0;
+ unsigned long flags;
+ struct sighand_struct *sighand;
+ struct task_struct *p = timer->it.cpu.task;
WARN_ON_ONCE(p == NULL);
- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
- if (unlikely(p->sighand == NULL)) {
+ /*
+ * Protect against sighand release/switch in exit/exec and process/
+ * thread timer list entry concurrent read/writes.
+ */
+ sighand = lock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
+ if (unlikely(sighand == NULL)) {
/*
* We raced with the reaping of the task.
* The deletion should have cleared us off the list.
*/
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&timer->it.cpu.entry));
} else {
- spin_lock(&p->sighand->siglock);
if (timer->it.cpu.firing)
ret = TIMER_RETRY;
else
list_del(&timer->it.cpu.entry);
- spin_unlock(&p->sighand->siglock);
+
+ unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
}
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
if (!ret)
put_task_struct(p);