Re: [PATCH] sched.h: Annotate sighand_struct with __rcu

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 01/24, madhuparnabhowmik10@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -918,7 +918,7 @@ struct task_struct {
>  
>  	/* Signal handlers: */
>  	struct signal_struct		*signal;
> -	struct sighand_struct		*sighand;
> +	struct sighand_struct __rcu		*sighand;
>  	sigset_t			blocked;
>  	sigset_t			real_blocked;
>  	/* Restored if set_restore_sigmask() was used: */
> diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
> index bcd46f547db3..9ad8dea93dbb 100644
> --- a/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -1383,7 +1383,7 @@ struct sighand_struct *__lock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk,
>  		 * must see ->sighand == NULL.
>  		 */
>  		spin_lock_irqsave(&sighand->siglock, *flags);
> -		if (likely(sighand == tsk->sighand))
> +		if (likely(sighand == rcu_access_pointer(tsk->sighand)))
>  			break;
>  		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sighand->siglock, *flags);
>  	}

ACK,

perhaps you can also cleanup copy_sighand(). rcu_assign_pointer() makes no
sense, we should either move it down or simply use RCU_INIT_POINTER().

Oleg.