[PATCH] de_thread: Don't confuse users do_each_thread.

Oleg Nesterov spotted two interesting bugs with the current de_thread
code.  The simplest is a long standing double decrement of
__get_cpu_var(process_counts) in __unhash_process.  Caused by
two processes exiting when only one was created.

The other is that since we no longer detach from the thread_group list
it is possible for do_each_thread when run under the tasklist_lock to
see the same task_struct twice.  Once on the task list as a
thread_group_leader, and once on the thread list of another
thread.

The double appearance in do_each_thread can cause a double increment
of mm_core_waiters in zap_threads resulting in problems later on in
coredump_wait.

To remedy those two problems this patch takes the simple approach
of changing the old thread group leader into a child thread.
The only routine in release_task that cares is __unhash_process,
and it can be trivially seen that we handle cleaning up a
thread group leader properly.

Since de_thread doesn't change the pid of the exiting leader process
and instead shares it with the new leader process.  I change
thread_group_leader to recognize group leadership based on the
group_leader field and not based on pids.  This should also be
slightly cheaper then the existing thread_group_leader macro.

I performed a quick audit and I couldn't see any user of
thread_group_leader that cared about the difference.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 541f482..a3e4f6b 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1203,7 +1203,8 @@ extern void wait_task_inactive(task_t * p);
 #define while_each_thread(g, t) \
 	while ((t = next_thread(t)) != g)
 
-#define thread_group_leader(p)	(p->pid == p->tgid)
+/* de_thread depends on thread_group_leader not being a pid based check */
+#define thread_group_leader(p)	(p == p->group_leader)
 
 static inline task_t *next_thread(task_t *p)
 {