de_thread() pre-allocates newsighand to make sure that exec() can't fail after
killing all sub-threads. Imho, this buys nothing, but complicates the code:
- this is (mostly) needed to handle CLONE_SIGHAND without CLONE_THREAD
tasks, this is very unlikely (if ever used) case
- unless we already have some serious problems, GFP_KERNEL allocation
should not fail
- ENOMEM still can happen after de_thread(), ->sighand is not the last
object we have to allocate
Change the code to allocate the new ->sighand on demand.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
--- t/fs/exec.c~3_ALLOC 2007-08-18 18:26:48.000000000 +0400
+++ t/fs/exec.c 2007-08-18 19:10:58.000000000 +0400
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ static int exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *m
static int de_thread(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
struct signal_struct *sig = tsk->signal;
- struct sighand_struct *newsighand, *oldsighand = tsk->sighand;
+ struct sighand_struct *oldsighand = tsk->sighand;
spinlock_t *lock = &oldsighand->siglock;
struct task_struct *leader = NULL;
int count;
@@ -789,10 +789,6 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct
return 0;
}
- newsighand = kmem_cache_alloc(sighand_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!newsighand)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
if (thread_group_empty(tsk))
goto no_thread_group;
@@ -809,7 +805,6 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct
*/
spin_unlock_irq(lock);
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
- kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, newsighand);
return -EAGAIN;
}
@@ -928,17 +923,16 @@ no_thread_group:
if (leader)
release_task(leader);
- if (atomic_read(&oldsighand->count) == 1) {
- /*
- * Now that we nuked the rest of the thread group,
- * it turns out we are not sharing sighand any more either.
- * So we can just keep it.
- */
- kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, newsighand);
- } else {
+ if (atomic_read(&oldsighand->count) != 1) {
+ struct sighand_struct *newsighand;
/*
- * Move our state over to newsighand and switch it in.
+ * This ->sighand is shared with the CLONE_SIGHAND
+ * but not CLONE_THREAD task, switch to the new one.
*/
+ newsighand = kmem_cache_alloc(sighand_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!newsighand)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
atomic_set(&newsighand->count, 1);
memcpy(newsighand->action, oldsighand->action,
sizeof(newsighand->action));
-
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