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hung_task: fix the broken rcu_lock_break() logic

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check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks()->rcu_lock_break() introduced by
"softlockup: check all tasks in hung_task" commit ce9dbe24 looks
absolutely wrong.

	- rcu_lock_break() does put_task_struct(). If the task has exited
	  it is not safe to even read its ->state, nothing protects this
	  task_struct.

	- The TASK_DEAD checks are wrong too. Contrary to the comment, we
	  can't use it to check if the task was unhashed. It can be unhashed
	  without TASK_DEAD, or it can be valid with TASK_DEAD.

	  For example, an autoreaping task can do release_task(current)
	  long before it sets TASK_DEAD in do_exit().

	  Or, a zombie task can have ->state == TASK_DEAD but release_task()
	  was not called, and in this case we must not break the loop.

Change this code to check pid_alive() instead, and do this before we drop
the reference to the task_struct.

Note: while_each_thread() under rcu_read_lock() is not really safe, it can
livelock.  This will be fixed later, but fortunately in this case the
"max_count" logic saves us anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov 2012-03-05 14:59:14 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6e27f63edb
commit 6027ce497d
1 changed files with 7 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -119,15 +119,20 @@ static void check_hung_task(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long timeout)
* For preemptible RCU it is sufficient to call rcu_read_unlock in order
* to exit the grace period. For classic RCU, a reschedule is required.
*/
static void rcu_lock_break(struct task_struct *g, struct task_struct *t)
static bool rcu_lock_break(struct task_struct *g, struct task_struct *t)
{
bool can_cont;
get_task_struct(g);
get_task_struct(t);
rcu_read_unlock();
cond_resched();
rcu_read_lock();
can_cont = pid_alive(g) && pid_alive(t);
put_task_struct(t);
put_task_struct(g);
return can_cont;
}
/*
@ -154,9 +159,7 @@ static void check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks(unsigned long timeout)
goto unlock;
if (!--batch_count) {
batch_count = HUNG_TASK_BATCHING;
rcu_lock_break(g, t);
/* Exit if t or g was unhashed during refresh. */
if (t->state == TASK_DEAD || g->state == TASK_DEAD)
if (!rcu_lock_break(g, t))
goto unlock;
}
/* use "==" to skip the TASK_KILLABLE tasks waiting on NFS */