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diff --git a/kernel/freezer.c b/kernel/freezer.c
index cb0931f89306..ba6248b323ef 100644
--- a/kernel/freezer.c
+++ b/kernel/freezer.c
@@ -120,3 +120,35 @@ void cancel_freezing(struct task_struct *p)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
}
}
+
+/*
+ * Wake up a frozen process
+ *
+ * task_lock() is needed to prevent the race with refrigerator() which may
+ * occur if the freezing of tasks fails. Namely, without the lock, if the
+ * freezing of tasks failed, thaw_tasks() might have run before a task in
+ * refrigerator() could call frozen_process(), in which case the task would be
+ * frozen and no one would thaw it.
+ */
+int __thaw_process(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ if (frozen(p)) {
+ p->flags &= ~PF_FROZEN;
+ return 1;
+ }
+ clear_freeze_flag(p);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+int thaw_process(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ task_lock(p);
+ if (__thaw_process(p) == 1) {
+ task_unlock(p);
+ wake_up_process(p);
+ return 1;
+ }
+ task_unlock(p);
+ return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(thaw_process);