The following commit has been merged into the timers/core branch of tip:
Commit-ID: 71aebe0e9c84d06413a95857315e94305df51251
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/71aebe0e9c84d06413a95857315e94305df51251
Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 11:15:03 -06:00
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 11:21:45 +01:00
posix-cpu-timers: Stop disabling timers on mt-exec
The reasons why the extra posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() invocation has been
added are not entirely clear from the commit message. Today all that
posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() does is stop timers that are tracking the
task from firing. Every other operation on those timers is still allowed.
The practical implication of this is posix_cpu_timer_del() which could
not get the siglock after the thread group leader has exited (because
sighand == NULL) would be able to run successfully because the timer
was already dequeued.
With that locking issue fixed there is no point in disabling all of the
timers. So remove this ``tempoary'' hack.
Fixes: e0a70217107e ("posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87o8tityzs.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/exit.c | 11 +----------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 2833ffb..df54631 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -103,17 +103,8 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS
posix_cpu_timers_exit(tsk);
- if (group_dead) {
+ if (group_dead)
posix_cpu_timers_exit_group(tsk);
- } else {
- /*
- * This can only happen if the caller is de_thread().
- * FIXME: this is the temporary hack, we should teach
- * posix-cpu-timers to handle this case correctly.
- */
- if (unlikely(has_group_leader_pid(tsk)))
- posix_cpu_timers_exit_group(tsk);
- }
#endif
if (group_dead) {
|