From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:44:47 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] ITIMER_REAL: fix possible deadlock and race X-Git-Tag: v2.6.13-rc1~33 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f01b1b0baa454825ed95c28d2a6a71bbf4510836;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] ITIMER_REAL: fix possible deadlock and race As Steven Rostedt pointed out, there are 2 problems with ITIMER_REAL timers. 1. do_setitimer() does not call del_timer_sync() in case when the timer is not pending (it_real_value() returns 0). This is wrong, the timer may still be running, and it can rearm itself. 2. It calls del_timer_sync() with tsk->sighand->siglock held. This is deadlockable, because timer's handler needs this lock too. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/kernel/itimer.c b/kernel/itimer.c index 1dc988e0d2..a72cb0e5aa 100644 --- a/kernel/itimer.c +++ b/kernel/itimer.c @@ -153,11 +153,15 @@ int do_setitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value, struct itimerval *ovalue) switch (which) { case ITIMER_REAL: +again: spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); interval = tsk->signal->it_real_incr; val = it_real_value(tsk->signal); - if (val) - del_timer_sync(&tsk->signal->real_timer); + /* We are sharing ->siglock with it_real_fn() */ + if (try_to_del_timer_sync(&tsk->signal->real_timer) < 0) { + spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); + goto again; + } tsk->signal->it_real_incr = timeval_to_jiffies(&value->it_interval); it_real_arm(tsk, timeval_to_jiffies(&value->it_value));