fork/exit: move tty_kref_put() outside of __cleanup_signal()

tty_kref_put() has two callsites in copy_process() paths, 1. if copy_process() suceeds it is called before we copy signal->tty from parent 2. otherwise it is called from __cleanup_signal() under bad_fork_cleanup_signal: label In both cases tty_kref_put() is not right and unneeded because we don't have the balancing tty_kref_get(). Fortunately, this is harmless because this can only happen without CLONE_THREAD, and in this case signal->tty must be NULL. Remove tty_kref_put() from copy_process() and __cleanup_signal(), and change another caller of __cleanup_signal(), __exit_signal(), to call tty_kref_put() by hand. I hope this change makes sense by itself, but it is also needed to make ->signal refcountable.

Oleg Nesterov committed 16 years ago

Commit 4dec2a91 parent ffdf9182 files · +1 −2Browse files

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kernel/exit.c +1 −0
kernel/fork.c +0 −2

kernel/exit.c+1−0

@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk) · 148 unmodified lines
149	* see account_group_exec_runtime().	149	* see account_group_exec_runtime().
150	*/	150	*/
151	task_rq_unlock_wait(tsk);	151	task_rq_unlock_wait(tsk);
		152	tty_kref_put(sig->tty);
152	__cleanup_signal(sig);	153	__cleanup_signal(sig);
153	}	154	}
154	}	155	}

kernel/fork.c+0−2

 void __cleanup_signal(struct signal_struct *sig)
 {
 	thread_group_cputime_free(sig);
-	tty_kref_put(sig->tty);
 	kmem_cache_free(signal_cachep, sig);
 }
 				p->nsproxy->pid_ns->child_reaper = p;
 			p->signal->leader_pid = pid;
-			tty_kref_put(p->signal->tty);
 			p->signal->tty = tty_kref_get(current->signal->tty);
 			attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PGID, task_pgrp(current));
 			attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_SID, task_session(current));