Oleg Nesterov ad133ba3dc sched, signals: fix the racy usage of ->signal in account_group_xxx/run_posix_cpu_timers ...

Impact: fix potential NULL dereference

Contrary to ad474caca3 changelog, other
acct_group_xxx() helpers can be called after exit_notify() by timer tick.
Thanks to Roland for pointing out this. Somehow I missed this simple fact
when I read the original patch, and I am afraid I confused Frank during
the discussion. Sorry.

Fortunately, these helpers work with current, we can check ->exit_state
to ensure that ->signal can't go away under us.

Also, add the comment and compiler barrier to account_group_exec_runtime(),
to make sure we load ->signal only once.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

2008-11-17 16:49:35 +01:00

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