signals: make task_struct->signal immutable/refcountable
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Wed, 26 May 2010 21:43:16 +0000 (14:43 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 27 May 2010 16:12:46 +0000 (09:12 -0700)
commitea6d290ca34c4fd91b7348338c0cc7bdeff94a35
tree6e9bd367650d9233c5b6cf1059845f17cb1bc460
parent4dec2a91fd7e8815d730afbfdcf085cbf53433ac
signals: make task_struct->signal immutable/refcountable

We have a lot of problems with accessing task_struct->signal, it can
"disappear" at any moment.  Even current can't use its ->signal safely
after exit_notify().  ->siglock helps, but it is not convenient, not
always possible, and sometimes it makes sense to use task->signal even
after this task has already dead.

This patch adds the reference counter, sigcnt, into signal_struct.  This
reference is owned by task_struct and it is dropped in
__put_task_struct().  Perhaps it makes sense to export
get/put_signal_struct() later, but currently I don't see the immediate
reason.

Rename __cleanup_signal() to free_signal_struct() and unexport it.  With
the previous changes it does nothing except kmem_cache_free().

Change __exit_signal() to not clear/free ->signal, it will be freed when
the last reference to any thread in the thread group goes away.

Note:
- when the last thead exits signal->tty can point to nowhere, see
  the next patch.

- with or without this patch signal_struct->count should go away,
  or at least it should be "int nr_threads" for fs/proc. This will
  be addressed later.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: 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>
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/exit.c
kernel/fork.c