[PATCH] NPTL signal delivery deadlock fix
This bug is quite subtle and only happens in a very interesting
situation where a real-time threaded process is in the middle of a
coredump when someone whacks it with a SIGKILL. However, this deadlock
leaves the system pretty hosed and you have to reboot to recover.
Not good for real-time priority-preemption applications like our
telephony application, with 90+ real-time (SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR)
processes, many of them multi-threaded, interacting with each other for
high volume call processing.
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index ca1186ee..d282fea 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@
{
struct task_struct *t;
- if (p->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT)
+ if (p->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT)
/*
* The process is in the middle of dying already.
*/
