From f20011457f41c11edb5ea5038ad0c8ea9f392023 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:44:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] pids: init_struct_pid.tasks should never see the swapper process "statically initialize struct pid for swapper" commit 820e45db says: Statically initialize a struct pid for the swapper process (pid_t == 0) and attach it to init_task. This is needed so task_pid(), task_pgrp() and task_session() interfaces work on the swapper process also. OK, but: - it doesn't make sense to add init_task.pids[].node into init_struct_pid.tasks[], and in fact this just wrong. idle threads are special, they shouldn't be visible on any global list. In particular do_each_pid_task(init_struct_pid) shouldn't see swapper. This is the actual reason why kill(0, SIGKILL) from /sbin/init (which starts with 0,0 special pids) crashes the kernel. The signal sent to pgid/sid == 0 must never see idle threads, even if the previous patch fixed the crash itself. - we have other idle threads running on the non-boot CPUs, see the next patch. Change INIT_STRUCT_PID/INIT_PID_LINK to create the empty/unhashed hlist_head/hlist_node. Like any other idle thread swapper can never exit, so detach_pid()->__hlist_del() is not possible, but we could change INIT_PID_LINK() to set pprev = &next if needed. All we need is the valid swapper->pids[].pid == &init_struct_pid. Reported-by: Mathias Krause Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Cedric Le Goater Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: Herbert Poetzl Cc: Mathias Krause Acked-by: Roland McGrath Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/init_task.h | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h index 6deb1ba52fd..94fecb748a2 100644 --- a/include/linux/init_task.h +++ b/include/linux/init_task.h @@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups; #define INIT_STRUCT_PID { \ .count = ATOMIC_INIT(1), \ .tasks = { \ - { .first = &init_task.pids[PIDTYPE_PID].node }, \ - { .first = &init_task.pids[PIDTYPE_PGID].node }, \ - { .first = &init_task.pids[PIDTYPE_SID].node }, \ + { .first = NULL }, \ + { .first = NULL }, \ + { .first = NULL }, \ }, \ .level = 0, \ .numbers = { { \ @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups; { \ .node = { \ .next = NULL, \ - .pprev = &init_struct_pid.tasks[type].first, \ + .pprev = NULL, \ }, \ .pid = &init_struct_pid, \ } -- 2.39.2