wake_up_process() should be never used to wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED task
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:48:17 +0000 (20:48 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:15:30 +0000 (03:15 +0000)
commit 9067ac85d533651b98c2ff903182a20cbb361fcb upstream.

wake_up_process() should never wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED task.
Change it to use TASK_NORMAL and add the WARN_ON().

TASK_ALL has no other users, probably can be killed.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
kernel/sched.c

index fcc893f..eeeec4e 100644 (file)
@@ -2924,7 +2924,8 @@ out:
  */
 int wake_up_process(struct task_struct *p)
 {
-       return try_to_wake_up(p, TASK_ALL, 0);
+       WARN_ON(task_is_stopped_or_traced(p));
+       return try_to_wake_up(p, TASK_NORMAL, 0);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(wake_up_process);