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exec: kill unsafe BUG_ON(sig->count) checks

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de_thread:

	if (atomic_read(&oldsighand->count) <= 1)
		BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sig->count) != 1);

This is not safe without the rmb() in between.  The results of two
correctly ordered __exit_signal()->atomic_dec_and_test()'s could be seen
out of order on our CPU.

The same is true for the "thread_group_empty()" case, __unhash_process()'s
changes could be seen before atomic_dec_and_test(&sig->count).

On some platforms (including i386) atomic_read() doesn't provide even the
compiler barrier, in that case these checks are simply racy.

Remove these BUG_ON()'s. Alternatively, we can do something like

	BUG_ON( ({ smp_rmb(); atomic_read(&sig->count) != 1; }) );

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov 2007-08-22 14:01:58 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 5c076fce2e
commit abd96ecb29
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@ -784,7 +784,6 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct *tsk)
* and we can just re-use it all.
*/
if (atomic_read(&oldsighand->count) <= 1) {
BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sig->count) != 1);
signalfd_detach(tsk);
exit_itimers(sig);
return 0;
@ -929,8 +928,6 @@ no_thread_group:
if (leader)
release_task(leader);
BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sig->count) != 1);
if (atomic_read(&oldsighand->count) == 1) {
/*
* Now that we nuked the rest of the thread group,