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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2006-06-15 20:11:43 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-17 10:52:13 -0700
commit30f1e3dd8c72abda343bcf415f7d8894a02b4290 (patch)
tree68ef326814e3b8e6ba0159cc451cef4b71695ea3 /Documentation/sparc
parent8f17fc20bfb75bcec4cfeda789738979c8338fdc (diff)
[PATCH] run_posix_cpu_timers: remove a bogus BUG_ON()
do_exit() clears ->it_##clock##_expires, but nothing prevents another cpu to attach the timer to exiting process after that. arm_timer() tries to protect against this race, but the check is racy. After exit_notify() does 'write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock)' and before do_exit() calls 'schedule() local timer interrupt can find tsk->exit_state != 0. If that state was EXIT_DEAD (or another cpu does sys_wait4) interrupted task has ->signal == NULL. At this moment exiting task has no pending cpu timers, they were cleanuped in __exit_signal()->posix_cpu_timers_exit{,_group}(), so we can just return from irq. John Stultz recently confirmed this bug, see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115015841413687 Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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