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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cpuset.c | 35 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c index ba42b0a76961..12815d3f1a05 100644 --- a/kernel/cpuset.c +++ b/kernel/cpuset.c @@ -1977,6 +1977,39 @@ void cpuset_fork(struct task_struct *child) * We don't need to task_lock() this reference to tsk->cpuset, * because tsk is already marked PF_EXITING, so attach_task() won't * mess with it, or task is a failed fork, never visible to attach_task. + * + * Hack: + * + * Set the exiting tasks cpuset to the root cpuset (top_cpuset). + * + * Don't leave a task unable to allocate memory, as that is an + * accident waiting to happen should someone add a callout in + * do_exit() after the cpuset_exit() call that might allocate. + * If a task tries to allocate memory with an invalid cpuset, + * it will oops in cpuset_update_task_memory_state(). + * + * We call cpuset_exit() while the task is still competent to + * handle notify_on_release(), then leave the task attached to + * the root cpuset (top_cpuset) for the remainder of its exit. + * + * To do this properly, we would increment the reference count on + * top_cpuset, and near the very end of the kernel/exit.c do_exit() + * code we would add a second cpuset function call, to drop that + * reference. This would just create an unnecessary hot spot on + * the top_cpuset reference count, to no avail. + * + * Normally, holding a reference to a cpuset without bumping its + * count is unsafe. The cpuset could go away, or someone could + * attach us to a different cpuset, decrementing the count on + * the first cpuset that we never incremented. But in this case, + * top_cpuset isn't going away, and either task has PF_EXITING set, + * which wards off any attach_task() attempts, or task is a failed + * fork, never visible to attach_task. + * + * Another way to do this would be to set the cpuset pointer + * to NULL here, and check in cpuset_update_task_memory_state() + * for a NULL pointer. This hack avoids that NULL check, for no + * cost (other than this way too long comment ;). **/ void cpuset_exit(struct task_struct *tsk) @@ -1984,7 +2017,7 @@ void cpuset_exit(struct task_struct *tsk) struct cpuset *cs; cs = tsk->cpuset; - tsk->cpuset = NULL; + tsk->cpuset = &top_cpuset; /* Hack - see comment above */ if (notify_on_release(cs)) { char *pathbuf = NULL; |