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freezer: change ptrace_stop/do_signal_stop to use freezable_schedule()

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try_to_freeze_tasks() and cgroup_freezer rely on scheduler locks
to ensure that a task doing STOPPED/TRACED -> RUNNING transition
can't escape freezing. This mostly works, but ptrace_stop() does
not necessarily call schedule(), it can change task->state back to
RUNNING and check freezing() without any lock/barrier in between.

We could add the necessary barrier, but this patch changes
ptrace_stop() and do_signal_stop() to use freezable_schedule().
This fixes the race, freezer_count() and freezer_should_skip()
carefully avoid the race.

And this simplifies the code, try_to_freeze_tasks/update_if_frozen
no longer need to use task_is_stopped_or_traced() checks with the
non trivial assumptions. We can rely on the mechanism which was
specially designed to mark the sleeping task as "frozen enough".

v2: As Tejun pointed out, we can also change get_signal_to_deliver()
and move try_to_freeze() up before 'relock' label.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Oleg Nesterov 2012-10-26 19:46:06 +02:00 • committed by Tejun Heo
parent ead5c47371
commit 5d8f72b55c
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@ -134,10 +134,9 @@ static inline bool freezer_should_skip(struct task_struct *p)
}
/*
* These macros are intended to be used whenever you want allow a task that's
* sleeping in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE or TASK_KILLABLE state to be frozen. Note
* that neither return any clear indication of whether a freeze event happened
* while in this function.
* These macros are intended to be used whenever you want allow a sleeping
* task to be frozen. Note that neither return any clear indication of
* whether a freeze event happened while in this function.
*/
/* Like schedule(), but should not block the freezer. */