Re: [PATCH] PM/Hibernate: Thaw kernel threads in SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE ioctl path

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Monday, January 30, 2012, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> In the SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE ioctl, if the call to hibernation_snapshot()
> fails, the frozen tasks are not thawed.
> 
> And in the case of success, if we happen to exit due to a successful freezer
> test, all tasks (including those of userspace) are thawed, whereas actually
> we should have thawed only the kernel threads at that point. Fix both these
> issues.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied.

Thanks,
Rafael


> ---
> This applies on top of the patch posted at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/27/501
> 
>  kernel/power/user.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/power/user.c b/kernel/power/user.c
> index e5a21a8..3e10007 100644
> --- a/kernel/power/user.c
> +++ b/kernel/power/user.c
> @@ -249,13 +249,15 @@ static long snapshot_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
>  		}
>  		pm_restore_gfp_mask();
>  		error = hibernation_snapshot(data->platform_support);
> -		if (!error) {
> +		if (error) {
> +			thaw_kernel_threads();
> +		} else {
>  			error = put_user(in_suspend, (int __user *)arg);
>  			if (!error && !freezer_test_done)
>  				data->ready = 1;
>  			if (freezer_test_done) {
>  				freezer_test_done = false;
> -				thaw_processes();
> +				thaw_kernel_threads();
>  			}
>  		}
>  		break;
> 
> 
> 
>