Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tty: Use RCU read lock to iterate tasks and threads in __do_SAK()

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 01/17, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> __do_SAK() needs to be 100% accurate.

But it can't. A process/thread can open tty right after the check.

> I do not see the rcu_read_lock
> guaranteeing that new processes created while the process list is being
> iterated that happen to have a reference to the tty will be seen.

We can't miss the new child if its parent has this tty opened at fork() time,
__do_SAK() sends SIGKILL and ->siglock serializes __do_SAK() with copy_process()
which checks signal_pending() under the same ->siglock. So either fork() should
fail or for_each_process() should see the new child.

Right?

Otherwise we do not care. The child can open tty later but this doesn't differ
from the "race" above.

Oleg.