From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:08 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] coredump: don't take tasklist_lock
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.18-rc1~737
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7b1c6154fa8bb937e0b1b4f2adbb315d70270f10;p=linux-2.6

[PATCH] coredump: don't take tasklist_lock

This patch removes tasklist_lock from zap_threads().
This is safe wrt:

	do_exit:
		The caller holds mm->mmap_sem. This means that task which
		shares the same ->mm can't pass exit_mm(), so it can't be
		unhashed from init_task.tasks or ->thread_group lists.

	fork:
		None of sub-threads can fork after zap_process(leader). All
		processes which were created before this point should be
		visible to zap_threads() because copy_process() adds the new
		process to the tail of init_task.tasks list, and ->siglock
		lock/unlock provides a memory barrier.

	de_thread:
		It does list_replace_rcu(&leader->tasks, &current->tasks).
		So zap_threads() will see either old or new leader, it does
		not matter. However, it can change p->sighand, so we should
		use lock_task_sighand() in zap_process().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index b58ba7d127..49fa0127a3 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1373,7 +1373,11 @@ static void zap_process(struct task_struct *start)
 	struct task_struct *t;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&start->sighand->siglock, flags);
+	/*
+	 * start->sighand can't disappear, but may be
+	 * changed by de_thread()
+	 */
+	lock_task_sighand(start, &flags);
 	start->signal->flags = SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT;
 	start->signal->group_stop_count = 0;
 
@@ -1386,7 +1390,7 @@ static void zap_process(struct task_struct *start)
 		}
 	} while ((t = next_thread(t)) != start);
 
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&start->sighand->siglock, flags);
+	unlock_task_sighand(start, &flags);
 }
 
 static void zap_threads(struct mm_struct *mm)
@@ -1404,7 +1408,7 @@ static void zap_threads(struct mm_struct *mm)
 		complete(vfork_done);
 	}
 
-	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	for_each_process(g) {
 		p = g;
 		do {
@@ -1415,7 +1419,7 @@ static void zap_threads(struct mm_struct *mm)
 			}
 		} while ((p = next_thread(p)) != g);
 	}
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
 static void coredump_wait(struct mm_struct *mm)