Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 cifs_mount oops

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed May 23 2007 - 12:10:32 EST


On Wed, 23 May 2007 08:28:47 -0500 Steven French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes - this patch looks better.
>
> I also am not sure whether the send_sig is still necessary to wake up a
> thread blocked in tcp recv_msg (only do a wake_up_process vs. doing a
> send_sig(SIGKILL) )
>
> Unless someone knows for sure whether the send_sig is redundant, I would
> like to merge Shaggy's version of the patch
>
>
> "young dave" <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on 05/23/2007 03:37:04 AM:
>
> > Hi,
> > Sorry for the wrong patch in my last post.
> >
> > How about save the tsk then call kthread_stop like this:
> >
> > diff -udr linux/fs/cifs/connect.c linux.new/fs/cifs/connect.c
> > --- linux/fs/cifs/connect.c 2007-05-23 10:59:13.000000000 +0000
> > +++ linux.new/fs/cifs/connect.c 2007-05-23 16:33:54.000000000 +0000
> > @@ -2069,8 +2069,9 @@
> > srvTcp->tcpStatus = CifsExiting;
> > spin_unlock(&GlobalMid_Lock);
> > if (srvTcp->tsk) {
> > + struct task_struct * tsk = srvTcp->tsk;
> > send_sig(SIGKILL,srvTcp->tsk,1);
> > - kthread_stop(srvTcp->tsk);
> > + kthread_stop(tsk);
> > }
> > }
> > /* If find_unc succeeded then rc == 0 so we can not end
> */
> >
> > Regards
> > dave
>
> Shaggy's suggested patch seems slightly better:
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> index 216fb62..b6e2158 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> @@ -2069,8 +2069,12 @@ cifs_mount(struct super_block *sb, struct
> cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb,
> srvTcp->tcpStatus =
> CifsExiting;
> spin_unlock(&GlobalMid_Lock);
> if (srvTcp->tsk) {
> + struct
> task_struct *tsk;
> send_sig(SIGKILL,srvTcp->tsk,1);
> - kthread_stop(srvTcp->tsk);
> + /*
> srvTcp->tsk can be zeroed at any time */
> + tsk =
> srvTcp->tsk;
> + if (tsk)
> + kthread_stop(tsk);
> }
> }
> /* If find_unc succeeded then rc == 0 so
> we can not end */

The wordwrapping made that extraordinarily hard to read. Repairing...

--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -2069,8 +2069,12 @@ cifs_mount(struct super_block *sb, struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb,
srvTcp->tcpStatus = CifsExiting;
spin_unlock(&GlobalMid_Lock);
if (srvTcp->tsk) {
struct task_struct *tsk;
send_sig(SIGKILL,srvTcp->tsk,1);
- kthread_stop(srvTcp->tsk);
+ /* srvTcp->tsk can be zeroed at any time */
+ tsk = srvTcp->tsk;
+ if (tsk)
+ kthread_stop(tsk);
}
}
/* If find_unc succeeded then rc == 0 so we can not end */


This can end up running kthread_stop() against an already-exited task.

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