From 3245d6acab981a2388ffb877c7ecc97e763c59d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 14:32:12 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] exit: fix race between wait_consider_task() and wait_task_zombie() wait_consider_task() checks EXIT_ZOMBIE after EXIT_DEAD/EXIT_TRACE and both checks can fail if we race with EXIT_ZOMBIE -> EXIT_DEAD/EXIT_TRACE change in between, gcc needs to reload p->exit_state after security_task_wait(). In this case ->notask_error will be wrongly cleared and do_wait() can hang forever if it was the last eligible child. Many thanks to Arne who carefully investigated the problem. Note: this bug is very old but it was pure theoretical until commit b3ab03160dfa ("wait: completely ignore the EXIT_DEAD tasks"). Before this commit "-O2" was probably enough to guarantee that compiler won't read ->exit_state twice. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Reported-by: Arne Goedeke Tested-by: Arne Goedeke Cc: [3.15+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed