From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 22:59:14 +0000 (-0800) Subject: hung_task: fix the broken rcu_lock_break() logic X-Git-Tag: v3.3-rc7~37^2~11 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6027ce497d44dd8eae1a9215789df178f6b422cc;p=pandora-kernel.git hung_task: fix the broken rcu_lock_break() logic check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks()->rcu_lock_break() introduced by "softlockup: check all tasks in hung_task" commit ce9dbe24 looks absolutely wrong. - rcu_lock_break() does put_task_struct(). If the task has exited it is not safe to even read its ->state, nothing protects this task_struct. - The TASK_DEAD checks are wrong too. Contrary to the comment, we can't use it to check if the task was unhashed. It can be unhashed without TASK_DEAD, or it can be valid with TASK_DEAD. For example, an autoreaping task can do release_task(current) long before it sets TASK_DEAD in do_exit(). Or, a zombie task can have ->state == TASK_DEAD but release_task() was not called, and in this case we must not break the loop. Change this code to check pid_alive() instead, and do this before we drop the reference to the task_struct. Note: while_each_thread() under rcu_read_lock() is not really safe, it can livelock. This will be fixed later, but fortunately in this case the "max_count" logic saves us anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Mandeep Singh Baines Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Tetsuo Handa Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed