From: Oleg Nesterov refrigerator() can miss a wakeup, "wait event" loop needs a proper memory ordering. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Pavel Machek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/power/process.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/power/process.c~fix-refrigerator-vs-thaw_process-race kernel/power/process.c --- a/kernel/power/process.c~fix-refrigerator-vs-thaw_process-race +++ a/kernel/power/process.c @@ -47,8 +47,10 @@ void refrigerator(void) recalc_sigpending(); /* We sent fake signal, clean it up */ spin_unlock_irq(¤t->sighand->siglock); - while (frozen(current)) { - current->state = TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE; + for (;;) { + set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); + if (!frozen(current)) + break; schedule(); } pr_debug("%s left refrigerator\n", current->comm); _