Re: 3.14-rc2 XFS backtrace because irqs_disabled.

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Feb 15 2014 - 10:23:41 EST


On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 03:27:00PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> 1. info->q can be already freed if SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC.
>
> Once get_signal_to_deliver() or any other caller drops ->siglock
> another thread can do sys_timer_delete()->sigqueue_free().

How the devil would it find the sucker? It's off the list already.

> 2. We need to move do_schedule_next_timer() from dequeue_signal()
> here.
>
> Otherwise ->q can be reused/overwritten by the next send_sigqueue()
> right affter ->siglock is dropped.

Ditto. We rip them out of queue on collect_signal(); the only thing we do
not do is actual __sigqueue_free().
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