From 108150ea78003044e41150c75259447b2c0953b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:25:39 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] posix-timers: fix cleanup_timers() and run_posix_cpu_timers() races 1. cleanup_timers() sets timer->task = NULL under tasklist + ->sighand locks. That means that this code in posix_cpu_timer_del() and posix_cpu_timer_set() lock_timer(timer); if (timer->task == NULL) return; read_lock(tasklist); put_task_struct(timer->task) is racy. With this patch timer->task modified and accounted only under timer->it_lock. Sadly, this means that dead task_struct won't be freed until timer deleted or armed. 2. run_posix_cpu_timers() collects expired timers into local list under tasklist + ->sighand again. That means that posix_cpu_timer_del() should check timer->it.cpu.firing under these locks too. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c | 31 +++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c index d30b304a3384..30ab39a27736 100644 --- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -380,14 +380,9 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer) int posix_cpu_timer_del(struct k_itimer *timer) { struct task_struct *p = timer->it.cpu.task; + int ret = 0; - if (timer->it.cpu.firing) - return TIMER_RETRY; - - if (unlikely(p == NULL)) - return 0; - - if (!list_empty(&timer->it.cpu.entry)) { + if (likely(p != NULL)) { read_lock(&tasklist_lock); if (unlikely(p->signal == NULL)) { /* @@ -396,18 +391,20 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_del(struct k_itimer *timer) */ BUG_ON(!list_empty(&timer->it.cpu.entry)); } else { - /* - * Take us off the task's timer list. - */ spin_lock(&p->sighand->siglock); - list_del(&timer->it.cpu.entry); + if (timer->it.cpu.firing) + ret = TIMER_RETRY; + else + list_del(&timer->it.cpu.entry); spin_unlock(&p->sighand->siglock); } read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); - } - put_task_struct(p); - return 0; + if (!ret) + put_task_struct(p); + } + + return ret; } /* @@ -424,8 +421,6 @@ static void cleanup_timers(struct list_head *head, cputime_t ptime = cputime_add(utime, stime); list_for_each_entry_safe(timer, next, head, entry) { - put_task_struct(timer->task); - timer->task = NULL; list_del_init(&timer->entry); if (cputime_lt(timer->expires.cpu, ptime)) { timer->expires.cpu = cputime_zero; @@ -437,8 +432,6 @@ static void cleanup_timers(struct list_head *head, ++head; list_for_each_entry_safe(timer, next, head, entry) { - put_task_struct(timer->task); - timer->task = NULL; list_del_init(&timer->entry); if (cputime_lt(timer->expires.cpu, utime)) { timer->expires.cpu = cputime_zero; @@ -450,8 +443,6 @@ static void cleanup_timers(struct list_head *head, ++head; list_for_each_entry_safe(timer, next, head, entry) { - put_task_struct(timer->task); - timer->task = NULL; list_del_init(&timer->entry); if (timer->expires.sched < sched_time) { timer->expires.sched = 0;