From: Gautham R Shenoy <[email protected]>
This patch fixes the race pointed out by Oleg Nesterov.
* Freezer marks a thread as freezeable.
* The thread now marks itself PF_NOFREEZE, but it will be frozen on
on calling try_to_freeze(). Thus the task is frozen, even though it doesn't
want to.
* Subsequent thaw_processes() will also fail to thaw the task since it is
marked PF_NOFREEZE.
Avoid this problem by checking the task's PF_NOFREEZE status in
frozen_processes() before marking the task as frozen.
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/freezer.h | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/freezer.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/freezer.h 2007-05-10 21:44:36.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/freezer.h 2007-05-10 21:44:47.000000000 +0200
@@ -63,8 +63,10 @@ static inline int thaw_process(struct ta
*/
static inline void frozen_process(struct task_struct *p)
{
- p->flags |= PF_FROZEN;
- wmb();
+ if (!unlikely(p->flags & PF_NOFREEZE)) {
+ p->flags |= PF_FROZEN;
+ wmb();
+ }
clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_FREEZE);
}
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