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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2020-02-28 11:15:03 -0600
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2020-03-04 09:54:55 +0100
commitb95e31c07c5eb4f5c0769f12b38b0343d7961040 (patch)
treeb46651b5891959200b4effb93354d0f0db521e0c /kernel
parent55e8c8eb2c7b6bf30e99423ccfe7ca032f498f59 (diff)
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@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87o8tityzs.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c11
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 2833ffb0c211..df546315f699 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) {