signals: clear signal->tty when the last thread exits
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Wed, 26 May 2010 21:43:17 +0000 (14:43 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 27 May 2010 16:12:46 +0000 (09:12 -0700)
commit4ada856fb0ee62f6fe3aac3de726deac0640d929
tree8dd3efbc19f6e1f1dac2ff7afdcd9658fb08b814
parentea6d290ca34c4fd91b7348338c0cc7bdeff94a35
signals: clear signal->tty when the last thread exits

When the last thread exits signal->tty is freed, but the pointer is not
cleared and points to nowhere.

This is OK.  Nobody should use signal->tty lockless, and it is no longer
possible to take ->siglock.  However this looks wrong even if correct, and
the nice OOPS is better than subtle and hard to find bugs.

Change __exit_signal() to clear signal->tty under ->siglock.

Note: __exit_signal() needs more cleanups.  It should not check "sig !=
NULL" to detect the all-dead case and we have the same issues with
signal->stats.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/exit.c