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fix group stop with exit race
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do_signal_stop() counts all sub-thread and sets ->group_stop_count
accordingly.  Every thread should decrement ->group_stop_count and stop,
the last one should notify the parent.

However a sub-thread can exit before it notices the signal_pending(), or it
may be somewhere in do_exit() already.  In that case the group stop never
finishes properly.

Note: this is a minimal fix, we can add some optimizations later.  Say we
can return quickly if thread_group_empty().  Also, we can move some signal
related code from exit_notify() to exit_signals().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored and Linus Torvalds committed Feb 8, 2008
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/linux/signal.h
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Expand Up @@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ extern int show_unhandled_signals;

struct pt_regs;
extern int get_signal_to_deliver(siginfo_t *info, struct k_sigaction *return_ka, struct pt_regs *regs, void *cookie);
extern void exit_signals(struct task_struct *tsk);

extern struct kmem_cache *sighand_cachep;

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion kernel/exit.c
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Expand Up @@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
schedule();
}

tsk->flags |= PF_EXITING;
exit_signals(tsk); /* sets PF_EXITING */
/*
* tsk->flags are checked in the futex code to protect against
* an exiting task cleaning up the robust pi futexes.
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27 changes: 26 additions & 1 deletion kernel/signal.c
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Expand Up @@ -1739,7 +1739,7 @@ static int do_signal_stop(int signr)
* stop is always done with the siglock held,
* so this check has no races.
*/
if (!t->exit_state &&
if (!(t->flags & PF_EXITING) &&
!task_is_stopped_or_traced(t)) {
stop_count++;
signal_wake_up(t, 0);
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return signr;
}

void exit_signals(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
int group_stop = 0;

spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
if (unlikely(tsk->signal->group_stop_count) &&
!--tsk->signal->group_stop_count) {
tsk->signal->flags = SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED;
group_stop = 1;
}

/*
* From now this task is not visible for group-wide signals,
* see wants_signal(), do_signal_stop().
*/
tsk->flags |= PF_EXITING;
spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);

if (unlikely(group_stop)) {
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
do_notify_parent_cldstop(tsk, CLD_STOPPED);
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
}
}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(recalc_sigpending);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dequeue_signal);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_signals);
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