[v2.6.34-stable 089/213] wake_up_process() should be never used to wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED task

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Wed Feb 05 2014 - 15:49:11 EST


From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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commit 9067ac85d533651b98c2ff903182a20cbb361fcb upstream.

wake_up_process() should never wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED task.
Change it to use TASK_NORMAL and add the WARN_ON().

TASK_ALL has no other users, probably can be killed.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[PG: kernel/sched/core.c --> kernel/sched.c on 2.6.34]
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index e24d139ff694..ddcb8aeb2f59 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2492,7 +2492,8 @@ out:
*/
int wake_up_process(struct task_struct *p)
{
- return try_to_wake_up(p, TASK_ALL, 0);
+ WARN_ON(task_is_stopped_or_traced(p));
+ return try_to_wake_up(p, TASK_NORMAL, 0);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(wake_up_process);

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1.8.5.2

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