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Tejun Heo 77e4ef99d1 threadgroup: extend threadgroup_lock() to cover exit and exec
threadgroup_lock() protected only protected against new addition to
the threadgroup, which was inherently somewhat incomplete and
problematic for its only user cgroup.  On-going migration could race
against exec and exit leading to interesting problems - the symmetry
between various attach methods, task exiting during method execution,
->exit() racing against attach methods, migrating task switching basic
properties during exec and so on.

This patch extends threadgroup_lock() such that it protects against
all three threadgroup altering operations - fork, exit and exec.  For
exit, threadgroup_change_begin/end() calls are added to exit_signals
around assertion of PF_EXITING.  For exec, threadgroup_[un]lock() are
updated to also grab and release cred_guard_mutex.

With this change, threadgroup_lock() guarantees that the target
threadgroup will remain stable - no new task will be added, no new
PF_EXITING will be set and exec won't happen.

The next patch will update cgroup so that it can take full advantage
of this change.

-v2: beefed up comment as suggested by Frederic.

-v3: narrowed scope of protection in exit path as suggested by
     Frederic.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-12 18:12:21 -08:00
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debug Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
events Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
gcov
irq Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2011-11-17 11:46:26 -02:00
power Merge branch 'pm-freezer' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into pm-freezer 2011-11-23 21:09:02 +01:00
time
trace
.gitignore
acct.c
async.c
audit.c
audit.h
audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup.c threadgroup: rename signal->threadgroup_fork_lock to ->group_rwsem 2011-12-12 18:12:21 -08:00
cgroup_freezer.c freezer: remove unused @sig_only from freeze_task() 2011-11-21 12:32:26 -08:00
compat.c
configs.c
cpu.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
cpu_pm.c
cpuset.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
crash_dump.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
cred.c
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c freezer: remove racy clear_freeze_flag() and set PF_NOFREEZE on dead tasks 2011-11-21 12:32:23 -08:00
extable.c
fork.c threadgroup: rename signal->threadgroup_fork_lock to ->group_rwsem 2011-12-12 18:12:21 -08:00
freezer.c freezer: kill unused set_freezable_with_signal() 2011-11-23 09:28:17 -08:00
futex.c
futex_compat.c
groups.c
hrtimer.c
hung_task.c
irq_work.c
itimer.c
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c
kfifo.c
kmod.c
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c freezer: kill unused set_freezable_with_signal() 2011-11-23 09:28:17 -08:00
latencytop.c
lockdep.c
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep_states.h
Makefile
module.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
mutex.h
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c
panic.c module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree 2011-11-07 07:54:42 +10:30
params.c
pid.c
pid_namespace.c
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c
printk.c
profile.c
ptrace.c
range.c
rcu.h
rcupdate.c
rcutiny.c
rcutiny_plugin.h
rcutorture.c
rcutree.c
rcutree.h
rcutree_plugin.h
rcutree_trace.c
relay.c
res_counter.c
resource.c
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c
rtmutex.h
rtmutex_common.h
rwsem.c
sched.c Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2011-11-06 17:12:03 -08:00
sched_autogroup.c
sched_autogroup.h
sched_clock.c
sched_cpupri.c
sched_cpupri.h
sched_debug.c
sched_fair.c
sched_features.h
sched_idletask.c
sched_rt.c
sched_stats.h
sched_stoptask.c
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c threadgroup: extend threadgroup_lock() to cover exit and exec 2011-12-12 18:12:21 -08:00
smp.c
softirq.c
spinlock.c
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
sys.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
sys_ni.c
sysctl.c
sysctl_binary.c
sysctl_check.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
time.c
timeconst.pl
timer.c
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
user_namespace.c
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
wait.c
watchdog.c
workqueue.c
workqueue_sched.h