freezer: do not send signals to kernel threads

The freezer should not send signals to kernel threads, since that may lead to
subtle problems.  In particular, commit
b74d0deb968e1f85942f17080eace015ce3c332c has changed recalc_sigpending_tsk()
so that it doesn't clear TIF_SIGPENDING.  For this reason, if the freezer
continues to send fake signals to kernel threads and the freezing of kernel
threads fails, some of them may be running with TIF_SIGPENDING set forever.

Accordingly, recalc_sigpending_tsk() shouldn't set the task's TIF_SIGPENDING
flag if TIF_FREEZE is set.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 74 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/power/process.c b/kernel/power/process.c
index dba2f3a..4da125e 100644
--- a/kernel/power/process.c
+++ b/kernel/power/process.c
@@ -75,21 +75,79 @@ void refrigerator(void)
 	__set_current_state(save);
 }
 
-static void freeze_task(struct task_struct *p)
+static void fake_signal_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, int resume)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	if (!freezing(p)) {
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
+	signal_wake_up(p, resume);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
+}
+
+static void send_fake_signal(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+	if (p->state == TASK_STOPPED)
+		force_sig_specific(SIGSTOP, p);
+	fake_signal_wake_up(p, p->state == TASK_STOPPED);
+}
+
+static int has_mm(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+	return (p->mm && !(p->flags & PF_BORROWED_MM));
+}
+
+/**
+ *	freeze_task - send a freeze request to given task
+ *	@p: task to send the request to
+ *	@with_mm_only: if set, the request will only be sent if the task has its
+ *		own mm
+ *	Return value: 0, if @with_mm_only is set and the task has no mm of its
+ *		own or the task is frozen, 1, otherwise
+ *
+ *	The freeze request is sent by seting the tasks's TIF_FREEZE flag and
+ *	either sending a fake signal to it or waking it up, depending on whether
+ *	or not it has its own mm (ie. it is a user land task).  If @with_mm_only
+ *	is set and the task has no mm of its own (ie. it is a kernel thread),
+ *	its TIF_FREEZE flag should not be set.
+ *
+ *	The task_lock() is necessary to prevent races with exit_mm() or
+ *	use_mm()/unuse_mm() from occuring.
+ */
+static int freeze_task(struct task_struct *p, int with_mm_only)
+{
+	int ret = 1;
+
+	task_lock(p);
+	if (freezing(p)) {
+		if (has_mm(p)) {
+			if (!signal_pending(p))
+				fake_signal_wake_up(p, 0);
+		} else {
+			if (with_mm_only)
+				ret = 0;
+			else
+				wake_up_state(p, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+		}
+	} else {
 		rmb();
-		if (!frozen(p)) {
-			set_freeze_flag(p);
-			if (p->state == TASK_STOPPED)
-				force_sig_specific(SIGSTOP, p);
-			spin_lock_irqsave(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
-			signal_wake_up(p, p->state == TASK_STOPPED);
-			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
+		if (frozen(p)) {
+			ret = 0;
+		} else {
+			if (has_mm(p)) {
+				set_freeze_flag(p);
+				send_fake_signal(p);
+			} else {
+				if (with_mm_only) {
+					ret = 0;
+				} else {
+					set_freeze_flag(p);
+					wake_up_state(p, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+				}
+			}
 		}
 	}
+	task_unlock(p);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static void cancel_freezing(struct task_struct *p)
@@ -119,31 +177,14 @@ static int try_to_freeze_tasks(int freeze_user_space)
 			if (frozen(p) || !freezeable(p))
 				continue;
 
-			if (freeze_user_space) {
-				if (p->state == TASK_TRACED &&
-				    frozen(p->parent)) {
-					cancel_freezing(p);
-					continue;
-				}
-				/*
-				 * Kernel threads should not have TIF_FREEZE set
-				 * at this point, so we must ensure that either
-				 * p->mm is not NULL *and* PF_BORROWED_MM is
-				 * unset, or TIF_FRREZE is left unset.
-				 * The task_lock() is necessary to prevent races
-				 * with exit_mm() or use_mm()/unuse_mm() from
-				 * occuring.
-				 */
-				task_lock(p);
-				if (!p->mm || (p->flags & PF_BORROWED_MM)) {
-					task_unlock(p);
-					continue;
-				}
-				freeze_task(p);
-				task_unlock(p);
-			} else {
-				freeze_task(p);
+			if (p->state == TASK_TRACED && frozen(p->parent)) {
+				cancel_freezing(p);
+				continue;
 			}
+
+			if (!freeze_task(p, freeze_user_space))
+				continue;
+
 			if (!freezer_should_skip(p))
 				todo++;
 		} while_each_thread(g, p);