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

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Date:	Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:33:52 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] exec: kill unsafe BUG_ON(sig->count) checks

On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 09:39:36PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> 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; }) );

Good catches!

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

> 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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