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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Mathias Krause <Mathias.Krause@secunet.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] pids: fix fork_idle() to setup ->pids correctly
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 21:50:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100510195038.GD5249@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100510194917.GA5249@redhat.com>

copy_process(pid => &init_struct_pid) doesn't do attach_pid/etc.

It shouldn't, but this means that the idle threads run with the wrong
pids copied from the caller's task_struct. In x86 case the caller is
either kernel_init() thread or keventd.

In particular, this means that after the series of cpu_up/cpu_down an
idle thread (which never exits) can run with .pid pointing to nowhere.

Change fork_idle() to initialize idle->pids[] correctly. We only set
.pid = &init_struct_pid but do not add .node to list, INIT_TASK() does
the same for the boot-cpu idle thread (swapper).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---

 kernel/fork.c |   14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 34-rc1/kernel/fork.c~3_FORK_IDLE_SET_PIDS	2010-03-24 18:07:03.000000000 +0100
+++ 34-rc1/kernel/fork.c	2010-05-10 20:45:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -1339,6 +1339,16 @@ noinline struct pt_regs * __cpuinit __at
 	return regs;
 }
 
+static inline void init_idle_pids(struct pid_link *links)
+{
+	enum pid_type type;
+
+	for (type = PIDTYPE_PID; type < PIDTYPE_MAX; ++type) {
+		INIT_HLIST_NODE(&links[type].node); /* not really needed */
+		links[type].pid = &init_struct_pid;
+	}
+}
+
 struct task_struct * __cpuinit fork_idle(int cpu)
 {
 	struct task_struct *task;
@@ -1346,8 +1356,10 @@ struct task_struct * __cpuinit fork_idle
 
 	task = copy_process(CLONE_VM, 0, idle_regs(&regs), 0, NULL,
 			    &init_struct_pid, 0);
-	if (!IS_ERR(task))
+	if (!IS_ERR(task)) {
+		init_idle_pids(task->pids);
 		init_idle(task, cpu);
+	}
 
 	return task;
 }


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-10 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4BE01C86.3050908@secunet.com>
2010-05-09 18:45 ` kernel panic on kill(0, SIGTERM) with PGID == 0 Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-09 19:06   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-10  7:20   ` Mathias Krause
2010-05-10 19:49     ` [PATCH 0/4] swapper fixes (Was: kernel panic on kill(0, SIGTERM) with PGID == 0) Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-10 19:49       ` [PATCH 1/4] INIT_TASK() should initialize ->thread_group list Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-11  7:52         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-05-12  2:15         ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-05-12 15:54           ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-10 19:50       ` [PATCH 2/4] pids: init_struct_pid.tasks should never see the swapper process Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-11  9:54         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-05-12 16:03           ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-10 19:50       ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2010-05-11  8:54         ` [PATCH 3/4] pids: fix fork_idle() to setup ->pids correctly Serge E. Hallyn
2010-05-10 19:51       ` [PATCH 4/4] INIT_SIGHAND: use SIG_DFL instead of NULL Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-11  8:54         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-05-10 21:08       ` [PATCH 0/4] swapper fixes (Was: kernel panic on kill(0, SIGTERM) with PGID == 0) Andrew Morton
2010-05-10 21:41         ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-10 23:55       ` Roland McGrath

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