From 5d8f72b55c275677865de670fa147ed318191d81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:46:06 +0200 Subject: freezer: change ptrace_stop/do_signal_stop to use freezable_schedule() try_to_freeze_tasks() and cgroup_freezer rely on scheduler locks to ensure that a task doing STOPPED/TRACED -> RUNNING transition can't escape freezing. This mostly works, but ptrace_stop() does not necessarily call schedule(), it can change task->state back to RUNNING and check freezing() without any lock/barrier in between. We could add the necessary barrier, but this patch changes ptrace_stop() and do_signal_stop() to use freezable_schedule(). This fixes the race, freezer_count() and freezer_should_skip() carefully avoid the race. And this simplifies the code, try_to_freeze_tasks/update_if_frozen no longer need to use task_is_stopped_or_traced() checks with the non trivial assumptions. We can rely on the mechanism which was specially designed to mark the sleeping task as "frozen enough". v2: As Tejun pointed out, we can also change get_signal_to_deliver() and move try_to_freeze() up before 'relock' label. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- include/linux/freezer.h | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/freezer.h') diff --git a/include/linux/freezer.h b/include/linux/freezer.h index ee899329e65a..8039893bc3ec 100644 --- a/include/linux/freezer.h +++ b/include/linux/freezer.h @@ -134,10 +134,9 @@ static inline bool freezer_should_skip(struct task_struct *p) } /* - * These macros are intended to be used whenever you want allow a task that's - * sleeping in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE or TASK_KILLABLE state to be frozen. Note - * that neither return any clear indication of whether a freeze event happened - * while in this function. + * These macros are intended to be used whenever you want allow a sleeping + * task to be frozen. Note that neither return any clear indication of + * whether a freeze event happened while in this function. */ /* Like schedule(), but should not block the freezer. */ -- cgit v1.2.3