Re: [PATCH] account_group_exec_runtime: fix the racy usage of->signal

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 11/07, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > --- K-28/kernel/sched_stats.h~A_G_E_R_FIX	2008-11-07 17:32:02.000000000 +0100
> > +++ K-28/kernel/sched_stats.h	2008-11-07 17:44:39.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -351,10 +351,12 @@ static inline void account_group_exec_ru
> >  					      unsigned long long ns)
> >  {
> >  	struct signal_struct *sig;
> > +	unsigned long flags;
> >
> > -	sig = tsk->signal;
> > -	if (unlikely(!sig))
> > +	if (unlikely(!lock_task_sighand(tsk, &flags)))
> >  		return;
>
> i think this will lock up:

Ah. I worried about this, but convinced myself this is OK...

> the signal lock must not nest inside the rq
> lock, and these accounting functions are called from within the
> scheduler.

Why? we seem to never do task_rq_lock() under ->siglock ?

Oleg.

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