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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-11-26 23:07:27 +0100
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2010-12-24 15:02:40 +0100
commit8cfe400ca54fd1ed96f962bea5f7e20b09b6d69f (patch)
tree393f1eb68d2497b04778c2e062fc4e1450df33eb /kernel/power/process.c
parent133f1128b2bf178a1976b17c54bd14ce6feb90bf (diff)
Freezer: Fix a race during freezing of TASK_STOPPED tasks
After calling freeze_task(), try_to_freeze_tasks() see whether the task is stopped or traced and if so, considers it to be frozen; however, nothing guarantees that either the task being frozen sees TIF_FREEZE or the freezer sees TASK_STOPPED -> TASK_RUNNING transition. The task being frozen may wake up and not see TIF_FREEZE while the freezer fails to notice the transition and believes the task is still stopped. This patch fixes the race by making freeze_task() always go through fake_signal_wake_up() for applicable tasks. The function goes through the target task's scheduler lock and thus guarantees that either the target sees TIF_FREEZE or try_to_freeze_task() sees TASK_RUNNING. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/power/process.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/power/process.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/power/process.c b/kernel/power/process.c
index e50b4c1b2a0f..eb2c88a9e562 100644
--- a/kernel/power/process.c
+++ b/kernel/power/process.c
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ static int try_to_freeze_tasks(bool sig_only)
* 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 after setting TIF_FREEZE, it's
+ * guaranteed that either we see TASK_RUNNING or
+ * try_to_stop() after schedule() in ptrace/signal
+ * stop sees TIF_FREEZE.
*/
if (!task_is_stopped_or_traced(p) &&
!freezer_should_skip(p))