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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2014-10-23 11:41:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2014-10-29 10:07:04 -0700 |
| commit | eca1a08986f622c11b75b3b44d561a1f901c9cec (patch) | |
| tree | 15a635d885e693d2ee86aed4bcf988e8269d3606 /kernel/signal.c | |
| parent | d7e29933969e5ca7c112ce1368a07911f4485dc2 (diff) | |
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signal: Exit RCU read-side critical section on each pass through loop
The kill_pid_info() can potentially loop indefinitely if tasks are created
and deleted sufficiently quickly, and if this happens, this function
will remain in a single RCU read-side critical section indefinitely.
This commit therefore exits the RCU read-side critical section on each
pass through the loop. Because a race must happen to retry the loop,
this should have no performance impact in the common case.
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/signal.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/signal.c | 30 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 8f0876f9f6dd..54820984a872 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -1331,23 +1331,21 @@ int kill_pid_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct pid *pid) int error = -ESRCH; struct task_struct *p; - rcu_read_lock(); -retry: - p = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID); - if (p) { - error = group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p); - if (unlikely(error == -ESRCH)) - /* - * The task was unhashed in between, try again. - * If it is dead, pid_task() will return NULL, - * if we race with de_thread() it will find the - * new leader. - */ - goto retry; - } - rcu_read_unlock(); + for (;;) { + rcu_read_lock(); + p = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID); + if (p) + error = group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p); + rcu_read_unlock(); + if (likely(!p || error != -ESRCH)) + return error; - return error; + /* + * The task was unhashed in between, try again. If it + * is dead, pid_task() will return NULL, if we race with + * de_thread() it will find the new leader. + */ + } } int kill_proc_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, pid_t pid) |