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Commit e03d13e9 authored by Roland McGrath's avatar Roland McGrath Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] Fix cpu timers exit deadlock and races



Oleg Nesterov reported an SMP deadlock.  If there is a running timer
tracking a different process's CPU time clock when the process owning
the timer exits, we deadlock on tasklist_lock in posix_cpu_timer_del via
exit_itimers.

That code was using tasklist_lock to check for a race with __exit_signal
being called on the timer-target task and clearing its ->signal.
However, there is actually no such race.  __exit_signal will have called
posix_cpu_timers_exit and posix_cpu_timers_exit_group before it does
that.  Those will clear those k_itimer's association with the dying
task, so posix_cpu_timer_del will return early and never reach the code
in question.

In addition, posix_cpu_timer_del called from exit_itimers during execve
or directly from timer_delete in the process owning the timer can race
with an exiting timer-target task to cause a double put on timer-target
task struct.  Make sure we always access cpu_timers lists with sighand
lock held.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 3359b54c
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