linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] TASK_DEAD task is able to be woken up in special condition

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Message-ID: <1327654781.2446.149.camel@twins>
Date:	Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:59:41 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Motohiro Kosaki <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] TASK_DEAD task is able to be woken up in special condition

On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 17:26 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 01/26, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > However I think your proposal:
> >
> > >                 for (;;) {
> > >                         tsk->state = TASK_DEAD;
> > >                         schedule();
> > >                 }
> >
> > should equally work, if we hit the race and call schedule() with ->state
> > = TASK_RUNNING,
> 
> Yes, in this case everything is fine, but we can shedule() with TASK_DEAD
> state. preempt_disable() can't (and shouldn't) prevent deactivate_task().
> 
> To simplify, try_to_wake_up() does
> 
> 		spin_lock(pi_lock);
> 
> 		if (!(p->state & state))
> 			goto out;
> 
> 		/* WINDOW */
> 
> 		if (p->on_rq) {
> 			... everything is fine ...
> 		}
> 
> 		p->state = TASK_WAKING;
> 		ttwu_queue(p, cpu);
> 
> And the exiting task does
> 
> 	// but do not sleep ...
> 	current->state = TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE;
> 							// ttwu() checks ->state
> 	...
> 	tsk->state = TASK_DEAD;
> 	schedule();
> 		-> deactivate_task();
> 		-> tsk->on_rq = 0;
> 		-> finish_task_switch();
> 
> 							// ttwu() checks ->on_rq
> 
> In theory it can do this all in the WINDOW above. In this case we
> can wake it up again, after finish_task_switch()-put_task_struct().
> 
> No?

Yes, bugger. Ok I'll queue Yasunori-san's patch as is.

Thanks everyone!
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