From f9fab10bbd768b0e5254e53a4a8477a94bfc4b96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mandeep Singh Baines Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 14:41:13 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] hung_task: fix false positive during vfork vfork parent uninterruptibly and unkillably waits for its child to exec/exit. This wait is of unbounded length. Ignore such waits in the hung_task detector. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines Reported-by: Sasha Levin LKML-Reference: <1325344394.28904.43.camel@lappy> Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: John Kacur Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/hung_task.c | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/hung_task.c b/kernel/hung_task.c index 8b1748d0172c..2e48ec0c2e91 100644 --- a/kernel/hung_task.c +++ b/kernel/hung_task.c @@ -74,11 +74,17 @@ static void check_hung_task(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long timeout) /* * Ensure the task is not frozen. - * Also, when a freshly created task is scheduled once, changes - * its state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE without having ever been - * switched out once, it musn't be checked. + * Also, skip vfork and any other user process that freezer should skip. */ - if (unlikely(t->flags & PF_FROZEN || !switch_count)) + if (unlikely(t->flags & (PF_FROZEN | PF_FREEZER_SKIP))) + return; + + /* + * When a freshly created task is scheduled once, changes its state to + * TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE without having ever been switched out once, it + * musn't be checked. + */ + if (unlikely(!switch_count)) return; if (switch_count != t->last_switch_count) { -- 2.30.2