ARM: Convert VFP/Crunch/XscaleCP thread_release() to exit_thread()

This avoids races in the VFP code where the dead thread may have
state on another CPU.  By moving this code to exit_thread(), we
will be running as the thread, and therefore be running on the
current CPU.

This means that we can ensure that the only local state is accessed
in the thread notifiers.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/crunch.c b/arch/arm/kernel/crunch.c
index 769abe1..25ef223 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/crunch.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/crunch.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static int crunch_do(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long cmd, void *t)
 		 * initialised state information on the first fault.
 		 */
 
-	case THREAD_NOTIFY_RELEASE:
+	case THREAD_NOTIFY_EXIT:
 		crunch_task_release(thread);
 		break;
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
index 0d96d01..6730413 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
@@ -274,17 +274,18 @@ void show_regs(struct pt_regs * regs)
 	__backtrace();
 }
 
+ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(thread_notify_head);
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(thread_notify_head);
+
 /*
  * Free current thread data structures etc..
  */
 void exit_thread(void)
 {
+	thread_notify(THREAD_NOTIFY_EXIT, current_thread_info());
 }
 
-ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(thread_notify_head);
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(thread_notify_head);
-
 void flush_thread(void)
 {
 	struct thread_info *thread = current_thread_info();
@@ -299,9 +300,6 @@ void flush_thread(void)
 
 void release_thread(struct task_struct *dead_task)
 {
-	struct thread_info *thread = task_thread_info(dead_task);
-
-	thread_notify(THREAD_NOTIFY_RELEASE, thread);
 }
 
 asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void) __asm__("ret_from_fork");
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/xscale-cp0.c b/arch/arm/kernel/xscale-cp0.c
index 17127db..1796157 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/xscale-cp0.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/xscale-cp0.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static int iwmmxt_do(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long cmd, void *t)
 		 * initialised state information on the first fault.
 		 */
 
-	case THREAD_NOTIFY_RELEASE:
+	case THREAD_NOTIFY_EXIT:
 		iwmmxt_task_release(thread);
 		break;