linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/5] exec: kill unsafe BUG

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Date:	Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:39:36 +0400
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] exec: kill unsafe BUG_ON(sig->count) checks

de_thread:

	if (atomic_read(&oldsighand->count) <= 1)
		BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sig->count) != 1);

This is not safe without the rmb() in between. The results of two correctly
ordered __exit_signal()->atomic_dec_and_test()'s could be seen out of order
on our CPU.

The same is true for the "thread_group_empty()" case, __unhash_process()'s
changes could be seen before atomic_dec_and_test(&sig->count).

On some platforms (including i386) atomic_read() doesn't provide even the
compiler barrier, in that case these checks are simply racy.

Remove these BUG_ON()'s. Alternatively, we can do something like

	BUG_ON( ({ smp_rmb(); atomic_read(&sig->count) != 1; }) );

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>

--- t/fs/exec.c~1_BUG_ON	2007-08-18 17:36:58.000000000 +0400
+++ t/fs/exec.c	2007-08-18 18:19:41.000000000 +0400
@@ -784,7 +784,6 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct 
 	 * and we can just re-use it all.
 	 */
 	if (atomic_read(&oldsighand->count) <= 1) {
-		BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sig->count) != 1);
 		signalfd_detach(tsk);
 		exit_itimers(sig);
 		return 0;
@@ -929,8 +928,6 @@ no_thread_group:
 	if (leader)
 		release_task(leader);
 
-	BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sig->count) != 1);
-
 	if (atomic_read(&oldsighand->count) == 1) {
 		/*
 		 * Now that we nuked the rest of the thread group,

-
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