Hi!
> If the freezing of tasks fails and a task is preempted in refrigerator() before
> calling frozen_process(), then thaw_tasks() may run before this task is frozen.
> In that case the task will freeze and no one will thaw it.
>
> To fix this race we can call freezing(current) in refrigerator() along with
> frozen_process(current) under the task_lock() which also should be taken in
> the error path of try_to_freeze_tasks() as well as in thaw_process(). Moreover,
> if thaw_process() additionally clears TIF_FREEZE for tasks that are not frozen,
> we can be sure that all tasks are thawed and there are no pending "freeze"
> requests after thaw_tasks() has run.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Looks ok to me.
Pavel
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