[PATCH pm-freezer 3/4] freezer: check freezing() before leavingFROZEN state

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Aug 29 2011 - 10:06:03 EST


If another freeze happens before all tasks leave FROZEN state after
being thawed, the freezer can see the existing FROZEN and consider the
tasks to be frozen but they can clear FROZEN without checking the new
freezing(). Check freezing() while holding freezer_lock before
clearing FROZEN.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx>
---
kernel/freezer.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: work/kernel/freezer.c
===================================================================
--- work.orig/kernel/freezer.c
+++ work/kernel/freezer.c
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ bool __refrigerator(bool check_kthr_stop
*/
spin_lock_irq(&freezer_lock);
current->flags |= PF_FROZEN;
+refreeze:
spin_unlock_irq(&freezer_lock);

save = current->state;
@@ -78,8 +79,10 @@ bool __refrigerator(bool check_kthr_stop
schedule();
}

- /* leave FROZEN */
+ /* leave FROZEN after checking freezing() holding freezer_lock */
spin_lock_irq(&freezer_lock);
+ if (freezing(current))
+ goto refreeze;
current->flags &= ~PF_FROZEN;
spin_unlock_irq(&freezer_lock);

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