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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2010-05-26 14:44:10 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-05-27 09:12:52 -0700 |
commit | f20011457f41c11edb5ea5038ad0c8ea9f392023 (patch) | |
tree | 428377008bd670bc18e6a7bc140bbcb6c275e9f9 /include/linux/init_task.h | |
parent | fa2755e20ab0c7215d99c2dc7c262e98a09b01df (diff) |
pids: init_struct_pid.tasks should never see the swapper process
"statically initialize struct pid for swapper" commit 820e45db says:
Statically initialize a struct pid for the swapper process (pid_t == 0)
and attach it to init_task. This is needed so task_pid(), task_pgrp()
and task_session() interfaces work on the swapper process also.
OK, but:
- it doesn't make sense to add init_task.pids[].node into
init_struct_pid.tasks[], and in fact this just wrong.
idle threads are special, they shouldn't be visible on any
global list. In particular do_each_pid_task(init_struct_pid)
shouldn't see swapper.
This is the actual reason why kill(0, SIGKILL) from /sbin/init
(which starts with 0,0 special pids) crashes the kernel. The
signal sent to pgid/sid == 0 must never see idle threads, even
if the previous patch fixed the crash itself.
- we have other idle threads running on the non-boot CPUs, see
the next patch.
Change INIT_STRUCT_PID/INIT_PID_LINK to create the empty/unhashed
hlist_head/hlist_node. Like any other idle thread swapper can never exit,
so detach_pid()->__hlist_del() is not possible, but we could change
INIT_PID_LINK() to set pprev = &next if needed.
All we need is the valid swapper->pids[].pid == &init_struct_pid.
Reported-by: Mathias Krause <mathias.krause@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Mathias Krause <Mathias.Krause@secunet.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.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.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h index 6deb1ba52fdb..94fecb748a28 100644 --- a/include/linux/init_task.h +++ b/include/linux/init_task.h @@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups; #define INIT_STRUCT_PID { \ .count = ATOMIC_INIT(1), \ .tasks = { \ - { .first = &init_task.pids[PIDTYPE_PID].node }, \ - { .first = &init_task.pids[PIDTYPE_PGID].node }, \ - { .first = &init_task.pids[PIDTYPE_SID].node }, \ + { .first = NULL }, \ + { .first = NULL }, \ + { .first = NULL }, \ }, \ .level = 0, \ .numbers = { { \ @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups; { \ .node = { \ .next = NULL, \ - .pprev = &init_struct_pid.tasks[type].first, \ + .pprev = NULL, \ }, \ .pid = &init_struct_pid, \ } |