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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2007-05-23 13:57:24 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-23 20:14:10 -0700
commit33e1c288da62a6a5aa9077a6b7bfa690b1b02cf4 (patch)
tree68837483316db1fa08bcb2b444cabae75d31a5b2 /include/linux
parent585a2858b970cb6e2e5ca4877eefd18b4dba8ed4 (diff)
freezer: close potential race between refrigerator and thaw_tasks
If the freezing of tasks fails and a task is preempted in refrigerator() before calling frozen_process(), then thaw_tasks() may run before this task is frozen. In that case the task will freeze and no one will thaw it. To fix this race we can call freezing(current) in refrigerator() along with frozen_process(current) under the task_lock() which also should be taken in the error path of try_to_freeze_tasks() as well as in thaw_process(). Moreover, if thaw_process() additionally clears TIF_FREEZE for tasks that are not frozen, we can be sure that all tasks are thawed and there are no pending "freeze" requests after thaw_tasks() has run. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/freezer.h10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/freezer.h b/include/linux/freezer.h
index 5e75e26d478..db5423eae24 100644
--- a/include/linux/freezer.h
+++ b/include/linux/freezer.h
@@ -37,14 +37,24 @@ static inline void do_not_freeze(struct task_struct *p)
/*
* Wake up a frozen process
+ *
+ * task_lock() is taken to prevent the race with refrigerator() which may
+ * occur if the freezing of tasks fails. Namely, without the lock, if the
+ * freezing of tasks failed, thaw_tasks() might have run before a task in
+ * refrigerator() could call frozen_process(), in which case the task would be
+ * frozen and no one would thaw it.
*/
static inline int thaw_process(struct task_struct *p)
{
+ task_lock(p);
if (frozen(p)) {
p->flags &= ~PF_FROZEN;
+ task_unlock(p);
wake_up_process(p);
return 1;
}
+ clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_FREEZE);
+ task_unlock(p);
return 0;
}