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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2012-02-24 20:07:11 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-02-24 11:42:50 -0800 |
commit | d80e731ecab420ddcb79ee9d0ac427acbc187b4b (patch) | |
tree | e96a660b75b5bee8ae2c315878ec917b9c0da446 /kernel/fork.c | |
parent | 855a85f704026d5fe7de94fb1b765fe03404507f (diff) | |
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epoll: introduce POLLFREE to flush ->signalfd_wqh before kfree()
This patch is intentionally incomplete to simplify the review.
It ignores ep_unregister_pollwait() which plays with the same wqh.
See the next change.
epoll assumes that the EPOLL_CTL_ADD'ed file controls everything
f_op->poll() needs. In particular it assumes that the wait queue
can't go away until eventpoll_release(). This is not true in case
of signalfd, the task which does EPOLL_CTL_ADD uses its ->sighand
which is not connected to the file.
This patch adds the special event, POLLFREE, currently only for
epoll. It expects that init_poll_funcptr()'ed hook should do the
necessary cleanup. Perhaps it should be defined as EPOLLFREE in
eventpoll.
__cleanup_sighand() is changed to do wake_up_poll(POLLFREE) if
->signalfd_wqh is not empty, we add the new signalfd_cleanup()
helper.
ep_poll_callback(POLLFREE) simply does list_del_init(task_list).
This make this poll entry inconsistent, but we don't care. If you
share epoll fd which contains our sigfd with another process you
should blame yourself. signalfd is "really special". I simply do
not know how we can define the "right" semantics if it used with
epoll.
The main problem is, epoll calls signalfd_poll() once to establish
the connection with the wait queue, after that signalfd_poll(NULL)
returns the different/inconsistent results depending on who does
EPOLL_CTL_MOD/signalfd_read/etc. IOW: apart from sigmask, signalfd
has nothing to do with the file, it works with the current thread.
In short: this patch is the hack which tries to fix the symptoms.
It also assumes that nobody can take tasklist_lock under epoll
locks, this seems to be true.
Note:
- we do not have wake_up_all_poll() but wake_up_poll()
is fine, poll/epoll doesn't use WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE.
- signalfd_cleanup() uses POLLHUP along with POLLFREE,
we need a couple of simple changes in eventpoll.c to
make sure it can't be "lost".
Reported-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index b77fd559c78e..e2cd3e2a5ae8 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ #include <linux/user-return-notifier.h> #include <linux/oom.h> #include <linux/khugepaged.h> +#include <linux/signalfd.h> #include <asm/pgtable.h> #include <asm/pgalloc.h> @@ -935,8 +936,10 @@ static int copy_sighand(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) void __cleanup_sighand(struct sighand_struct *sighand) { - if (atomic_dec_and_test(&sighand->count)) + if (atomic_dec_and_test(&sighand->count)) { + signalfd_cleanup(sighand); kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, sighand); + } } |