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Oleg Nesterov 1a657f78dc [PATCH] introduce get_task_pid() to fix unsafe get_pid()
proc_pid_make_inode:

	ei->pid = get_pid(task_pid(task));

I think this is not safe.  get_pid() can be preempted after checking "pid
!= NULL".  Then the task exits, does detach_pid(), and RCU frees the pid.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-10-02 07:57:25 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov b0fa9db6ab [PATCH] proc: drop tasklist lock in task_state()
task_state() needs tasklist_lock to protect ->parent/->real_parent.  However
task->parent points to nowhere only when the actions below happen in order

	1) release_task(task)
	2) release_task(task->parent)
	3) a grace period passed

But 3) implies that the memory ops from 1) should be finished, so pid_alive()
can't be true in such a case.

Otherwise, we don't care if ->parent/->real_parent changes under us.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-10-02 07:57:24 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov a593d6edeb [PATCH] proc: convert do_task_stat() to use lock_task_sighand()
Drop tasklist_lock. ->siglock protects almost all interesting data
(including sub-threads traversal) except:

	->signal->tty
		protected by tty_mutex

	->real_parent
		the task can't be unhashed while we are holding
		->siglock, so ->real_parent can change from under us
		but we can safely dereference it under rcu_read_lock()

	->pgrp/->session
		we can get inconsistent numbers if the task does
		sys_setsid/daemonize at the same time. I hope this
		is acceptable.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-10-02 07:57:24 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 5e6b3f42ed [PATCH] proc: convert task_sig() to use lock_task_sighand()
lock_task_sighand() can take ->siglock without holding tasklist_lock.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-10-02 07:57:24 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov d387cae075 [PATCH] pid: simplify pid iterators
I think it is hardly possible to read the current do_each_task_pid().  The
new version is much simpler and makes the code smaller.

Only the do_each_task_pid change is tested, the do_each_pid_task isn't.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-10-02 07:57:15 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov cf342e52e3 [PATCH] Don't need to disable interrupts for tasklist_lock
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2006-09-30 20:31:18 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 25034d7a83 [PATCH] exit_io_context: don't disable irqs
We don't need to disable irqs to clear current->io_context, it is protected
by ->alloc_lock. Even IF it was possible to submit I/O from IRQ on behalf of
current this irq_disable() can't help: current_io_context() will re-instantiate
->io_context after irq_enable().

We don't need task_lock() or local_irq_disable() to clear ioc->task. This can't
prevent other CPUs from playing with our io_context anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2006-09-30 20:31:18 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 01017a2270 [PATCH] oom_kill_task(): cleanup ->mm checks
- It is not possible to have task->mm == &init_mm.

- task_lock() buys nothing for 'if (!p->mm)' check.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-29 09:18:21 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 972c4ea59c [PATCH] select_bad_process(): cleanup 'releasing' check
No logic changes, but imho easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-29 09:18:21 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 28324d1df6 [PATCH] select_bad_process(): kill a bogus PF_DEAD/TASK_DEAD check
The only one usage of TASK_DEAD outside of last schedule path,

select_bad_process:

	for_each_task(p) {

		if (!p->mm)
			continue;
		...
			if (p->state == TASK_DEAD)
				continue;
		...

TASK_DEAD state is set at the end of do_exit(), this means that p->mm
was already set == NULL by exit_mm(), so this task was already rejected
by 'if (!p->mm)' above.

Note also that the caller holds tasklist_lock, this means that p can't
pass exit_notify() and then set TASK_DEAD when p->mm != NULL.

Also, remove open-coded is_init().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-29 09:18:21 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov c394cc9fbb [PATCH] introduce TASK_DEAD state
I am not sure about this patch, I am asking Ingo to take a decision.

task_struct->state == EXIT_DEAD is a very special case, to avoid a confusion
it makes sense to introduce a new state, TASK_DEAD, while EXIT_DEAD should
live only in ->exit_state as documented in sched.h.

Note that this state is not visible to user-space, get_task_state() masks off
unsuitable states.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-29 09:18:21 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 55a101f8f7 [PATCH] kill PF_DEAD flag
After the previous change (->flags & PF_DEAD) <=> (->state == EXIT_DEAD), we
don't need PF_DEAD any longer.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-29 09:18:20 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 29b8849216 [PATCH] set EXIT_DEAD state in do_exit(), not in schedule()
schedule() checks PF_DEAD on every context switch and sets ->state = EXIT_DEAD
to ensure that the exiting task will be deactivated.  Note that this EXIT_DEAD
is in fact a "random" value, we can use any bit except normal TASK_XXX values.

It is better to set this state in do_exit() along with PF_DEAD flag and remove
that check in schedule().

We are safe wrt concurrent try_to_wake_up() (for example ptrace, tkill), it
can not change task's ->state: the 'state' argument of try_to_wake_up() can't
have EXIT_DEAD bit.  And in case when try_to_wake_up() sees a stale value of
->state == TASK_RUNNING it will do nothing.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-29 09:18:20 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov aaa2a97eb9 [PATCH] sys_get_robust_list(): don't take tasklist_lock
use rcu locks for find_task_by_pid().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-29 09:18:18 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov d359b549bf [PATCH] futex_find_get_task(): don't take tasklist_lock
It is ok to do find_task_by_pid() + get_task_struct() under
rcu_read_lock(), we cand drop tasklist_lock.

Note that testing of ->exit_state is racy with or without tasklist anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-29 09:18:18 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 5b160f5ecd [PATCH] copy_process: cosmetic ->ioprio tweak
copy_process:
// holds tasklist_lock + ->siglock
       /*
        * inherit ioprio
        */
       p->ioprio = current->ioprio;

Why?  ->ioprio was already copied in dup_task_struct().  I guess this is
needed to ensure that the child can't escape
sys_ioprio_set(IOPRIO_WHO_{PGRP,USER}), yes?

In that case we don't need ->siglock held, and the comment should be
updated.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-29 09:18:18 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 1c573afebc [PATCH] reparent_to_init(): use has_rt_policy()
Remove open-coded has_rt_policy(), no changes in kernel/exit.o

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-29 09:18:18 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 8dc3e9099e [PATCH] sched_setscheduler: fix? policy checks
I am not sure this patch is correct: I can't understand what the current
code does, and I don't know what it was supposed to do.

The comment says:

		 * can't change policy, except between SCHED_NORMAL
		 * and SCHED_BATCH:

The code:

		if (((policy != SCHED_NORMAL && p->policy != SCHED_BATCH) &&
			(policy != SCHED_BATCH && p->policy != SCHED_NORMAL)) &&

But this is equivalent to:

		if ( (is_rt_policy(policy) && has_rt_policy(p)) &&

which means something different.  We can't _decrease_ the current
->rt_priority with such a check (if rlim[RLIMIT_RTPRIO] == 0).

Probably, it was supposed to be:

		if (	!(policy == SCHED_NORMAL && p->policy == SCHED_BATCH)  &&
			!(policy == SCHED_BATCH  && p->policy == SCHED_NORMAL)

this matches the comment, but strange: it doesn't allow to _drop_ the
realtime priority when rlim[RLIMIT_RTPRIO] == 0.

I think the right check would be:

		/* can't set/change rt policy */
		if (is_rt_policy(policy) &&
				policy != p->policy &&
				!rlim_rtprio)
			return -EPERM;

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-29 09:18:17 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 57a6f51c42 [PATCH] introduce is_rt_policy() helper
Imho, makes the code a bit easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-29 09:18:17 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 5fe1d75f34 [PATCH] do_sched_setscheduler(): don't take tasklist_lock
Use rcu locks instead. sched_setscheduler() now takes ->siglock
before reading ->signal->rlim[].

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-29 09:18:17 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov bce9a234ce [PATCH] elf_fdpic_core_dump: don't take tasklist_lock
do_each_thread() is rcu-safe, and all tasks which use this ->mm must sleep
in wait_for_completion(&mm->core_done) at this point, so we can use RCU
locks.

Also, remove unneeded INIT_LIST_HEAD(new) before list_add(new, head).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-By: David Howells <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-29 09:18:14 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 486ccb05fd [PATCH] elf_core_dump: don't take tasklist_lock
do_each_thread() is rcu-safe, and all tasks which use this ->mm must sleep
in wait_for_completion(&mm->core_done) at this point, so we can use RCU
locks.

Also, remove unneeded INIT_LIST_HEAD(new) before list_add(new, head).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-29 09:18:14 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov dd9daa221e [PATCH] rcu_do_batch: make ->qlen decrement irq safe
rcu_do_batch() decrements rdp->qlen with irqs enabled.  This is not good,
it can also be modified by call_rcu() from interrupt.

Decrement ->qlen once with irqs disabled, after a main loop.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <[email protected]>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-13 07:32:14 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 3b6362b833 [PATCH] eligible_child: remove an obsolete ->tgid check
It is not possible to find a sub-thread in ->children/->ptrace_children
lists, ptrace_attach() does not allow to attach to sub-threads.

Even if it was possible to ptrace the task from the same thread group,
we can't allow to release ->group_leader while there are others (ptracer)
threads in the same group.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-09-02 14:51:27 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov d015baebba [PATCH] futex_find_get_task(): remove an obscure EXIT_ZOMBIE check
futex_find_get_task:

	if (p->state == EXIT_ZOMBIE || p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE)
		return NULL;

I can't understand this.  First, p->state can't be EXIT_ZOMBIE.  The
->exit_state check looks strange too.  Sub-threads or tasks whose ->parent
ignores SIGCHLD go directly to EXIT_DEAD state (I am ignoring a ptrace
case).  Why EXIT_DEAD tasks should be ok?  Yes, EXIT_ZOMBIE is more
important (a task may stay zombie for a long time), but this doesn't mean
we should explicitely ignore other EXIT_XXX states.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-08-27 11:01:30 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov f8986c241d [PATCH] revert "Drop tasklist lock in do_sched_setscheduler"
sched_setscheduler() looks at ->signal->rlim[].  It is unsafe do
dereference ->signal unless tasklist_lock or ->siglock is held (or p ==
current).  We pin the task structure, but this can't prevent from
release_task()->__exit_signal() which sets ->signal = NULL.

Restore tasklist_lock across the setscheduler call.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-08-27 11:01:29 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 2d8f613160 elv_unregister: fix possible crash on module unload
An exiting task or process which didn't do I/O yet have no io context,
elv_unregister() should check it is not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
2006-08-22 12:52:23 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov be33c3a67b [PATCH] cfq_cic_link: fix usage of wrong cfq_io_context
Obviously, cfq_cic_link() shouldn't free a just allocated cfq_io_context?
The dead key is from __cic, so drop that.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2006-08-21 10:02:54 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov e014ff8d42 [PATCH] uninline ioprio_best()
Saves 376 bytes (5 callers) for me.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2006-08-21 10:02:50 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 9f83e45eb5 [PATCH] Fix current_io_context() vs set_task_ioprio() race
I know nothing about io scheduler, but I suspect set_task_ioprio() is not safe.

current_io_context() initializes "struct io_context", then sets ->io_context.
set_task_ioprio() running on another cpu may see the changes out of order, so
->set_ioprio(ioc) may use io_context which was not initialized properly.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2006-08-21 08:34:15 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 78bd4d484f [PATCH] sys_ioprio_set: minor do_each_thread+break fix
From include/linux/sched.h:

         * Careful: do_each_thread/while_each_thread is a double loop so
         *          'break' will not work as expected - use goto instead.
         */

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2006-08-21 08:33:23 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 9fea80e4d9 [PATCH] sched: uninline task_rq_lock()
Saves 543 bytes from sched.o (gcc 3.3.3).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Con Kolivas <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Williams <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-27 17:32:45 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov cf2dfbfbf4 [PATCH] coredump: copy_process: don't check SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT
After the previous patch SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT implies a pending SIGKILL, we
can remove this check from copy_process() because we already checked
!signal_pending().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-26 09:58:27 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 5debfa6da5 [PATCH] coredump: shutdown current process first
This patch optimizes zap_threads() for the case when there are no ->mm
users except the current's thread group.  In that case we can avoid
'for_each_process()' loop.

It also adds a useful invariant: SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT (if checked under
->siglock) always implies that all threads (except may be current) have
pending SIGKILL.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-26 09:58:27 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov dcf560c593 [PATCH] coredump: some code relocations
This is a preparation for the next patch.  No functional changes.
Basically, this patch moves '->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT' check into
zap_threads(), and 'complete(vfork_done)' into coredump_wait outside of
->mmap_sem protected area.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-26 09:58:27 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 7b1c6154fa [PATCH] coredump: don't take tasklist_lock
This patch removes tasklist_lock from zap_threads().
This is safe wrt:

	do_exit:
		The caller holds mm->mmap_sem. This means that task which
		shares the same ->mm can't pass exit_mm(), so it can't be
		unhashed from init_task.tasks or ->thread_group lists.

	fork:
		None of sub-threads can fork after zap_process(leader). All
		processes which were created before this point should be
		visible to zap_threads() because copy_process() adds the new
		process to the tail of init_task.tasks list, and ->siglock
		lock/unlock provides a memory barrier.

	de_thread:
		It does list_replace_rcu(&leader->tasks, &current->tasks).
		So zap_threads() will see either old or new leader, it does
		not matter. However, it can change p->sighand, so we should
		use lock_task_sighand() in zap_process().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-26 09:58:27 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov d5f70c00ad [PATCH] coredump: kill ptrace related stuff
With this patch zap_process() sets SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT while sending SIGKILL to
the thread group.  This means that a TASK_TRACED task

	1. Will be awakened by signal_wake_up(1)

	2. Can't sleep again via ptrace_notify()

	3. Can't go to do_signal_stop() after return
	   from ptrace_stop() in get_signal_to_deliver()

So we can remove all ptrace related stuff from coredump path.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-26 09:58:27 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 281de339ce [PATCH] coredump: speedup SIGKILL sending
With this patch a thread group is killed atomically under ->siglock.  This is
faster because we can use sigaddset() instead of force_sig_info() and this is
used in further patches.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-26 09:58:27 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov aceecc0412 [PATCH] coredump: optimize ->mm users traversal
zap_threads() iterates over all threads to find those ones which share
current->mm.  All threads in the thread group share the same ->mm, so we can
skip entire thread group if it has another ->mm.

This patch shifts the killing of thread group into the newly added
zap_process() function.  This looks as unnecessary complication, but it is
used in further patches.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-26 09:58:26 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 2ceb8693ef [PATCH] de_thread: fix lockless do_each_thread
We should keep the value of old_leader->tasks.next in de_thread, otherwise
we can't do for_each_process/do_each_thread without tasklist_lock held.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-26 09:58:26 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov c1df7fb88a [PATCH] cleanup next_tid()
Try to make next_tid() a bit more readable and deletes unnecessary
"pid_alive(pos)" check.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-26 09:58:26 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov a872ff0cb2 [PATCH] simplify/fix first_tid()
first_tid:

	/* If nr exceeds the number of threads there is nothing todo */
	if (nr) {
		if (nr >= get_nr_threads(leader))
			goto done;
	}

This is not reliable: sub-threads can exit after this check, so the
'for' loop below can overlap and proc_task_readdir() can return an
already filldir'ed dirents.

	for (; pos && pid_alive(pos); pos = next_thread(pos)) {
		if (--nr > 0)
			continue;

Off-by-one error, will return 'leader' when nr == 1.

This patch tries to fix these problems and simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-26 09:58:26 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 626ab0e69d [PATCH] list: use list_replace_init() instead of list_splice_init()
list_splice_init(list, head) does unneeded job if it is known that
list_empty(head) == 1.  We can use list_replace_init() instead.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-23 07:43:07 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 54e7377035 [PATCH] list: introduce list_replace() helper
list_replace() is similar to list_replace_rcu(), but unlike
list_replace_rcu() it

	could be used when list_empty(old) == 1

	doesn't use barriers

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-23 07:43:07 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov f53ae1dc34 [PATCH] arm_timer: remove a racy and obsolete PF_EXITING check
arm_timer() checks PF_EXITING to prevent BUG_ON(->exit_state)
in run_posix_cpu_timers().

However, for some reason it does so only for CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD
case (which is imho wrong).

Also, this check is not reliable, PF_EXITING could be set on
another cpu without any locks/barriers just after the check,
so it can't prevent from attaching the timer to the exiting
task.

The previous patch makes this check unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-17 10:52:13 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 30f1e3dd8c [PATCH] run_posix_cpu_timers: remove a bogus BUG_ON()
do_exit() clears ->it_##clock##_expires, but nothing prevents
another cpu to attach the timer to exiting process after that.
arm_timer() tries to protect against this race, but the check
is racy.

After exit_notify() does 'write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock)' and
before do_exit() calls 'schedule() local timer interrupt can find
tsk->exit_state != 0. If that state was EXIT_DEAD (or another cpu
does sys_wait4) interrupted task has ->signal == NULL.

At this moment exiting task has no pending cpu timers, they were
cleanuped in __exit_signal()->posix_cpu_timers_exit{,_group}(),
so we can just return from irq.

John Stultz recently confirmed this bug, see

	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115015841413687

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-17 10:52:13 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 8f17fc20bf [PATCH] check_process_timers: fix possible lockup
If the local timer interrupt happens just after do_exit() sets PF_EXITING
(and before it clears ->it_xxx_expires) run_posix_cpu_timers() will call
check_process_timers() with tasklist_lock + ->siglock held and

	check_process_timers:

		t = tsk;
		do {
			....

			do {
				t = next_thread(t);
			} while (unlikely(t->flags & PF_EXITING));
		} while (t != tsk);

the outer loop will never stop.

Actually, the window is bigger.  Another process can attach the timer
after ->it_xxx_expires was cleared (see the next commit) and the 'if
(PF_EXITING)' check in arm_timer() is racy (see the one after that).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-17 10:52:13 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov a145410dcc [PATCH] __group_complete_signal: remove bogus BUG_ON
Commit e56d090310

   [PATCH] RCU signal handling

made this BUG_ON() unsafe. This code runs under ->siglock,
while switch_exec_pids() takes tasklist_lock.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-04-11 07:34:01 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov a2c348fe01 [PATCH] __mod_timer: simplify ->base changing
Since base and new_base are of the same type now, we can save one 'if'
branch and simplify the code a bit.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-31 12:18:53 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 3691c5199e [PATCH] kill __init_timer_base in favor of boot_tvec_bases
Commit a4a6198b80:
	[PATCH] tvec_bases too large for per-cpu data

introduced "struct tvec_t_base_s boot_tvec_bases" which is visible at
compile time.  This means we can kill __init_timer_base and move
timer_base_s's content into tvec_t_base_s.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-31 12:18:52 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 547679087b [PATCH] send_sigqueue: simplify and fix the race
send_sigqueue() checks PF_EXITING, then locks p->sighand->siglock.  This is
unsafe: 'p' can exit in between and set ->sighand = NULL.  The race is
theoretical, the window is tiny and irqs are disabled by the caller, so I
don't think we need the fix for -stable tree.

Convert send_sigqueue() to use lock_task_sighand() helper.

Also, delete 'p->flags & PF_EXITING' re-check, it is unneeded and the
comment is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:44 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov a1d5e21e3e [PATCH] do_notify_parent_cldstop: remove 'to_self' param
The previous patch has changed callsites of do_notify_parent_cldstop() so that
to_self == (->ptrace & PT_PTRACED) always (as it should be).  We can remove
this parameter now.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: john stultz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:44 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 883606a7c9 [PATCH] finish_stop: don't check stop_count < 0
Remove an obscure 'stop_count < 0' check in finish_stop().  The previous patch
made this case impossible.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: john stultz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:44 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov dac27f4a09 [PATCH] simplify do_signal_stop()
do_signal_stop() considers 'thread_group_empty()' as a special case.
This was needed to avoid taking tasklist_lock. Since this lock is
unneeded any longer, we can remove this special case and simplify
the code even more.

Also, before this patch, finish_stop() was called with stop_count == -1
for 'thread_group_empty()' case. This is not strictly wrong, but confusing
and unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: john stultz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:44 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov a7e5328a06 [PATCH] cleanup __exit_signal->cleanup_sighand path
Move 'tsk->sighand = NULL' from cleanup_sighand() to __exit_signal().  This
makes the exit path more understandable and allows us to do
cleanup_sighand() outside of ->siglock protected section.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:44 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 4a2c7a7837 [PATCH] make fork() atomic wrt pgrp/session signals
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Ok. SUSV3/Posix is clear, fork is atomic with respect
> to signals.  Either a signal comes before or after a
> fork but not during. (See the rationale section).
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/fork.html
>
> The tasklist_lock does not stop forks from adding to a process
> group. The forks stall while the tasklist_lock is held, but a fork
> that began before we grabbed the tasklist_lock simply completes
> afterwards, and the child does not receive the signal.

This also means that SIGSTOP or sig_kernel_coredump() signal can't
be delivered to pgrp/session reliably.

With this patch copy_process() returns -ERESTARTNOINTR when it
detects a pending signal, fork() will be restarted transparently
after handling the signals.

This patch also deletes now unneeded "group_stop_count > 0" check,
copy_process() can no longer succeed while group stop in progress.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-By: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:44 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 47e65328a7 [PATCH] pids: kill PIDTYPE_TGID
This patch kills PIDTYPE_TGID pid_type thus saving one hash table in
kernel/pid.c and speeding up subthreads create/destroy a bit.  It is also a
preparation for the further tref/pids rework.

This patch adds 'struct list_head thread_group' to 'struct task_struct'
instead.

We don't detach group leader from PIDTYPE_PID namespace until another
thread inherits it's ->pid == ->tgid, so we are safe wrt premature
free_pidmap(->tgid) call.

Currently there are no users of find_task_by_pid_type(PIDTYPE_TGID).
Should the need arise, we can use find_task_by_pid()->group_leader.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-By: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:44 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 88531f725b [PATCH] do_sigaction: don't take tasklist_lock
do_sigaction() does not need tasklist_lock anymore, we can simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:44 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov aacc90944d [PATCH] do_group_exit: don't take tasklist_lock
do_group_exit() takes tasklist_lock for zap_other_threads(), this is unneeded
now.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:43 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov a122b341b7 [PATCH] do_signal_stop: don't take tasklist_lock
do_signal_stop() does not need tasklist_lock anymore.  So it does not need to
do misc re-checks, and we can simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:43 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 6108ccd3e2 [PATCH] relax sig_needs_tasklist()
handle_stop_signal() does not need tasklist_lock for SIG_KERNEL_STOP_MASK
signals anymore.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:43 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 7d7185c818 [PATCH] sys_times: don't take tasklist_lock
sys_times: don't take tasklist_lock

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:43 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 5876700cd3 [PATCH] do __unhash_process() under ->siglock
This patch moves __unhash_process() call from realease_task() to
__exit_signal(), so __detach_pid() is called with ->siglock held.

This means we don't need tasklist_lock to iterate over thread group anymore:

	copy_process() was already changed to do attach_pid()
	under ->siglock.

	Eric's "pidhash-kill-switch_exec_pids.patch" from -mm
	changed de_thread() so it doesn't touch PIDTYPE_TGID.

NOTE: de_thread() still needs some attention.  It still changes task->pid
lockless.  Taking ->sighand.siglock here allows to do more tasklist_lock
removals.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:43 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 35f5cad8c4 [PATCH] revert "Optimize sys_times for a single thread process"
This patch reverts 'CONFIG_SMP && thread_group_empty()' optimization in
sys_times().  The reason is that the next patch breaks memory ordering which
is needed for that optimization.

tasklist_lock in sys_times() will be eliminated completely by further patch.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:43 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 6a14c5c9da [PATCH] move __exit_signal() to kernel/exit.c
__exit_signal() is private to release_task() now.  I think it is better to
make it static in kernel/exit.c and export flush_sigqueue() instead - this
function is much more simple and straightforward.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:43 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov c81addc9d3 [PATCH] rename __exit_sighand to cleanup_sighand
Cosmetic, rename __exit_sighand to cleanup_sighand and move it close to
copy_sighand().

This matches copy_signal/cleanup_signal naming, and I think it is easier to
follow.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:43 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 29ff471234 [PATCH] cleanup __exit_signal()
This patch factors out duplicated code under 'if' branches.  Also, BUG_ON()
conversions and whitespace cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:43 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 6b3934ef52 [PATCH] copy_process: cleanup bad_fork_cleanup_signal
__exit_signal() does important cleanups atomically under ->siglock.  It is
also called from copy_process's error path.  This is not good, for example we
can't move __unhash_process() under ->siglock for that reason.

We should not mix these 2 paths, just look at ugly 'if (p->sighand)' under
'bad_fork_cleanup_sighand:' label.  For copy_process() case it is sufficient
to just backout copy_signal(), nothing more.

Again, nobody can see this task yet.  For CLONE_THREAD case we just decrement
signal->count, otherwise nobody can see this ->signal and we can free it
lockless.

This patch assumes it is safe to do exit_thread_group_keys() without
tasklist_lock.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:42 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 7001510d0c [PATCH] copy_process: cleanup bad_fork_cleanup_sighand
The only caller of exit_sighand(tsk) is copy_process's error path.  We can
call __exit_sighand() directly and kill exit_sighand().

This 'tsk' was not yet registered in pid_hash[] or init_task.tasks, it has no
external references, nobody can see it, and

	IF (clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND)
		At least 'current' has a reference to ->sighand, this
		means atomic_dec_and_test(sighand->count) can't be true.

	ELSE
		Nobody can see this ->sighand, this means we can free it
		without any locking.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:42 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov a9e88e84b5 [PATCH] introduce sig_needs_tasklist() helper
In my opinion this patch cleans up the code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:42 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov f63ee72e0f [PATCH] introduce lock_task_sighand() helper
Add lock_task_sighand() helper and converts group_send_sig_info() to use
it.  Hopefully we will have more users soon.

This patch also removes '!sighand->count' and '!p->usage' checks, I think
they both are bogus, racy and unneeded (but probably it makes sense to
restore them as BUG_ON()s).

->sighand is cleared and it's ->count is decremented in release_task() with
sighand->siglock held, so it is a bug to have '!p->usage || !->count' after
we already locked and verified it is the same.  On the other hand, an
already dead task without ->sighand can have a non-zero ->usage due to
ptrace, for example.

If we read the stale value of ->sighand we must see the change after
spin_lock(), because that change was done while holding that same old
->sighand.siglock.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:42 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov aa1757f90b [PATCH] convert sighand_cache to use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
This patch borrows a clever Hugh's 'struct anon_vma' trick.

Without tasklist_lock held we can't trust task->sighand until we locked it
and re-checked that it is still the same.

But this means we don't need to defer 'kmem_cache_free(sighand)'.  We can
return the memory to slab immediately, all we need is to be sure that
sighand->siglock can't dissapear inside rcu protected section.

To do so we need to initialize ->siglock inside ctor function,
SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU does the rest.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:42 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 1f09f9749c [PATCH] release_task: replace open-coded ptrace_unlink()
Use ptrace_unlink() instead of open-coding.  No changes in kernel/exit.o

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:41 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 8292d633ad [PATCH] wait_for_helper: trivial style cleanup
Use NULL instead of (... *)0

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:41 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 6ac781b11a [PATCH] reparent_thread: use remove_parent/add_parent
Use remove_parent/add_parent instead of open coding.

No changes in kernel/exit.o

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:41 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov c7c6464117 [PATCH] pidhash: don't use zero pids
daemonize() calls set_special_pids(1,1), while init and kernel threads spawned
from init/main.c:init() run with 0,0 special pids.  This patch changes
INIT_SIGNALS() so that that they run with ->pgrp == ->session == 1 also.  This
patch relies on fact that swapper's pid == 1.

Now we have no hashed zero pids in pid_hash[].

User-space visibible change is that now /sbin/init runs with (1,1) special
pids and becomes a session leader.

Quoting Eric W. Biederman:
>
> daemonize consuming pids (1,1) then consumes pgrp 1.  So that when
> /sbin/init calls setsid() it thinks /sbin/init is a process group
> leader and setsid() fails.  So /sbin/init wants pgrp 1 session 1
> but doesn't get it.  I am pretty certain daemonize did not exist so
> /sbin/init got pgrp 1 session 1 in 2.4.
>
> That is the bug that is being fixed.
>
> This patch takes things one step farther and essentially calls
> setsid() for pid == 1 before init is execed.  That is new behavior
> but it cleans up the kernel as we now do not need to support the
> case of a process without a process group or a session.
>
> The only process that could have possibly cared was /sbin/init
> and it already calls setsid() because it doesn't want that.
>
> If this was going to break anything noticeable the change in behavior
> from 2.4 to 2.6 would have already done that.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:41 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 73b9ebfe12 [PATCH] pidhash: don't count idle threads
fork_idle() does unhash_process() just after copy_process().  Contrary,
boot_cpu's idle thread explicitely registers itself for each pid_type with nr
= 0.

copy_process() already checks p->pid != 0 before process_counts++, I think we
can just skip attach_pid() calls and job control inits for idle threads and
kill unhash_process().  We don't need to cleanup ->proc_dentry in fork_idle()
because with this patch idle threads are never hashed in
kernel/pid.c:pid_hash[].

We don't need to hash pid == 0 in pidmap_init().  free_pidmap() is never
called with pid == 0 arg, so it will never be reused.  So it is still possible
to use pid == 0 in any PIDTYPE_xxx namespace from kernel/pid.c's POV.

However with this patch we don't hash pid == 0 for PIDTYPE_PID case.  We still
have have PIDTYPE_PGID/PIDTYPE_SID entries with pid == 0: /sbin/init and
kernel threads which don't call daemonize().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:41 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov c97d98931a [PATCH] kill SET_LINKS/REMOVE_LINKS
Both SET_LINKS() and SET_LINKS/REMOVE_LINKS() have exactly one caller, and
these callers already check thread_group_leader().

This patch kills theese macros, they mix two different things: setting
process's parent and registering it in init_task.tasks list.  Callers are
updated to do these actions by hand.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:41 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 9b678ece42 [PATCH] don't use REMOVE_LINKS/SET_LINKS for reparenting
There are places where kernel uses REMOVE_LINKS/SET_LINKS while changing
process's ->parent.  Use add_parent/remove_parent instead, they don't abuse
of global process list.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:41 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 8fafabd86f [PATCH] remove add_parent()'s parent argument
add_parent(p, parent) is always called with parent == p->parent, and it makes
no sense to do it differently.  This patch removes this argument.

No changes in affected .o files.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:41 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov d799f03597 [PATCH] choose_new_parent: remove unused arg, sanitize exit_state check
'child_reaper' arg is not used in choose_new_parent().

"->exit_state >= EXIT_ZOMBIE" check is a leftover, was
valid when EXIT_ZOMBIE lived in ->state var.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:40 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 1434261c07 [PATCH] simplify exec from init's subthread
I think it is enough to take tasklist_lock for reading while changing
child_reaper:

	Reparenting needs write_lock(tasklist_lock)

	Only one thread in a thread group can do exec()

	sighand->siglock garantees that get_signal_to_deliver()
	will not see a stale value of child_reaper.

This means that we can change child_reaper earlier, without calling
zap_other_threads() twice.

"child_reaper = current" is a NOOP when init does exec from main thread, we
don't care.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-28 18:36:40 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov caa9ee771d [PATCH] rcu_process_callbacks: don't cli() while testing ->nxtlist
__rcu_process_callbacks() disables interrupts to protect itself from
call_rcu() which adds new entries to ->nxtlist.

However we can check "->nxtlist != NULL" with interrupts enabled, we can't
get "false positives" because call_rcu() can only change this condition
from 0 to 1.

Tested with rcutorture.ko.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Dipankar Sarma <[email protected]>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-24 07:33:20 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov ee25e96fcd [PATCH] BUILD_LOCK_OPS: cleanup preempt_disable() usage
This patch changes the code from:

	preempt_disable();
	for (;;) {
		...
		preempt_disable();
	}
to:
	for (;;) {
		preempt_disable();
		...
	}

which seems more clean to me and saves a couple of bytes for
each function.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-23 07:38:16 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov a26fd335b4 [PATCH] sigprocmask: kill unneeded temp var
Cleanup, remove unneeded double copying of current->blocked.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-23 07:38:15 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov a564da3964 [PATCH] readahead: ->prev_page can overrun the ahead window
If get_next_ra_size() does not grow fast enough, ->prev_page can overrun
the ahead window.  This means the caller will read the pages from
->ahead_start + ->ahead_size to ->prev_page synchronously.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Pratt <[email protected]>
Cc: Ram Pai <[email protected]>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-22 07:54:03 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 2d61b86775 [PATCH] disable unshare(CLONE_VM) for now
sys_unshare() does mmput(new_mm).  This is not enough if we have
mm->core_waiters.

This patch is a temporary fix for soon to be released 2.6.16.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
[ Checked with Uli: "I'm not planning to use unshare(CLONE_VM).  It's
  not needed for any functionality planned so far.  What we (as in Red
  Hat) need unshare() for now is the filesystem side." ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-03-18 10:49:36 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 5ecfbae093 [PATCH] fix zap_thread's ptrace related problems
1. The tracee can go from ptrace_stop() to do_signal_stop()
   after __ptrace_unlink(p).

2. It is unsafe to __ptrace_unlink(p) while p->parent may wait
   for tasklist_lock in ptrace_detach().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-02-15 11:05:43 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov dadac81b1b [PATCH] fix kill_proc_info() vs fork() theoretical race
copy_process:

	attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PID, p->pid);
	attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_TGID, p->tgid);

What if kill_proc_info(p->pid) happens in between?

copy_process() holds current->sighand.siglock, so we are safe
in CLONE_THREAD case, because current->sighand == p->sighand.

Otherwise, p->sighand is unlocked, the new process is already
visible to the find_task_by_pid(), but have a copy of parent's
'struct pid' in ->pids[PIDTYPE_TGID].

This means that __group_complete_signal() may hang while doing

	do ... while (next_thread() != p)

We can solve this problem if we reverse these 2 attach_pid()s:

	attach_pid() does wmb()

	group_send_sig_info() calls spin_lock(), which
	provides a read barrier. // Yes ?

I don't think we can hit this race in practice, but still.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-02-15 10:21:24 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 3f17da6994 [PATCH] fix kill_proc_info() vs CLONE_THREAD race
There is a window after copy_process() unlocks ->sighand.siglock
and before it adds the new thread to the thread list.

In that window __group_complete_signal(SIGKILL) will not see the
new thread yet, so this thread will start running while the whole
thread group was supposed to exit.

I beleive we have another good reason to place attach_pid(PID/TGID)
under ->sighand.siglock. We can do the same for

	release_task()->__unhash_process()

	de_thread()->switch_exec_pids()

After that we don't need tasklist_lock to iterate over the thread
list, and we can simplify things, see for example do_sigaction()
or sys_times().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-02-15 10:21:23 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 9ac95f2f90 [PATCH] do_sigaction: cleanup ->sa_mask manipulation
Clear unblockable signals beforehand.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-02-09 16:17:36 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov c70d3d703a [PATCH] sys_signal: initialize ->sa_mask
Pointed out by Linus Torvalds.

sys_signal() forgets to initialize ->sa_mask.

( I suspect arch/ia64/ia32/ia32_signal.c:sys32_signal()
  also needs this fix )

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-02-09 16:17:36 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov a9c828155a [PATCH] rcu: fix hotplug-cpu ->donelist leak
Pointed out by Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[email protected]>.

rcu_do_batch() stops after processing maxbatch callbacks
on ->donelist leaving rcu_tasklet in TASKLET_STATE_SCHED
state.

If CPU_DEAD event happens remaining ->donelist entries are
lost, rcu_offline_cpu() kills this tasklet.

With this patch ->donelist migrates along with ->curlist
and ->nxtlist to the current cpu.

Compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[email protected]>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-01-10 08:49:47 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 69a0b31579 [PATCH] rcu: join rcu_ctrlblk and rcu_state
This patch moves rcu_state into the rcu_ctrlblk. I think there
are no reasons why we should have 2 different variables to control
rcu state. Every user of rcu_state has also "rcu_ctrlblk *rcp" in
the parameter list.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-01-10 08:42:50 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov dbc1651f0c [PATCH] rcu: don't set ->next_pending in rcu_start_batch()
I think it is better to set ->next_pending in the caller, when
it is needed. This saves one parameter, and this coincides with
cpu_quiet() beahaviour, which sets ->completed = ->cur itself.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-01-09 17:01:39 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 677517771b [PATCH] rcu: uninline __rcu_pending()
__rcu_pending() is rather fat and called twice from rcu_pending().

rcu_pending() has multiple callers, and not that small too.

This patch uninlines both of them.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-01-09 09:35:44 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 0f59cc4a35 [PATCH] simplify k_getrusage()
Factor out common code for different RUSAGE_xxx cases.

Don't take ->sighand->siglock in RUSAGE_SELF case, suggested by Ravikiran G
Thirumalai <[email protected]>.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-01-08 20:14:09 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov fe7d37d1fb [PATCH] copy_process: error path cleanup
This patch moves 'fork_out:' under 'bad_fork_free:', and removes now
unneeded 'if (retval)' check.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-01-08 20:14:01 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov f7dd795e91 [PATCH] setpgid: should not accept ptraced childs
sys_setpgid() allows to change ->pgrp of ptraced childs.

'man setpgid' does not tell anything about that, so I consider
this behaviour is a bug.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Oren Laadan <[email protected]>
Cc: Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-01-08 20:14:01 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov ee0acf90d3 [PATCH] setpgid: should work for sub-threads
setpgid(0, pgid) or setpgid(forked_child_pid, pgid) does not work unless
the calling process is a thread_group_leader().

'man setpgid' does not tell anything about that, so I consider this
behaviour is a bug.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Oren Laadan <[email protected]>
Cc: Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-01-08 20:14:01 -08:00