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Message-ID: <20150521181616.GA18981@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 20:16:16 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@...sung.com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mhocko@...e.cz, peterz@...radead.org,
mingo@...nel.org, riel@...hat.com, ionut.m.alexa@...il.com,
peter@...leysoftware.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"v.narang@...sung.com" <v.narang@...sung.com>,
AKHILESH KUMAR <akhilesh.k@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [EDT][PATCH] kernel/exit.c : Fix missing read_unlock
On 05/21, Maninder Singh wrote:
>
> EP-F6AA0618C49C4AEDA73BFF1B39950BAB
> Hi,
>
> From: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@...sung.com>
>
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] kernel/exit.c : Fix missing task_unlock
>
> This patch adds missing read_unlock if do_wait_thread or ptrace_do_wait
> returns non zero.
Confused...
wait_consider_task() should drop tasklist_lock if it returns non-zero?
> --- a/kernel/exit.c
> +++ b/kernel/exit.c
> @@ -1486,12 +1486,16 @@ repeat:
> tsk = current;
> do {
> retval = do_wait_thread(wo, tsk);
> - if (retval)
> + if (retval) {
> + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> goto end;
> + }
>
> retval = ptrace_do_wait(wo, tsk);
> - if (retval)
> + if (retval) {
> + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> goto end;
> + }
Well, the patch is obviously wrong. Because, again, tasklist_lock was
already unlocked if (say) wait_task_zombie() reaps a child.
If you think there is a case which forgets to unlock, please tell us
more.
Oleg.
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