From: Rafael J. Wysocki If the freezing of tasks fails and a task is preempted in refrigerator() before calling frozen_process(), then thaw_tasks() may run before this task is frozen. In that case the task will freeze and no one will thaw it. To fix this race we can call freezing(current) in refrigerator() along with frozen_process(current) under the task_lock() which also should be taken in the error path of try_to_freeze_tasks() as well as in thaw_process(). Moreover, if thaw_process() additionally clears TIF_FREEZE for tasks that are not frozen, we can be sure that all tasks are thawed and there are no pending "freeze" requests after thaw_tasks() has run. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by: Pavel Machek Cc: Gautham R Shenoy Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/freezer.h | 10 ++++++++++ kernel/power/process.c | 12 +++++++++++- 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/freezer.h~freezer-close-potential-race-between-refrigerator-and-thaw_tasks include/linux/freezer.h --- a/include/linux/freezer.h~freezer-close-potential-race-between-refrigerator-and-thaw_tasks +++ a/include/linux/freezer.h @@ -37,14 +37,24 @@ static inline void do_not_freeze(struct /* * Wake up a frozen process + * + * task_lock() is taken to prevent the race with refrigerator() which may + * occur if the freezing of tasks fails. Namely, without the lock, if the + * freezing of tasks failed, thaw_tasks() might have run before a task in + * refrigerator() could call frozen_process(), in which case the task would be + * frozen and no one would thaw it. */ static inline int thaw_process(struct task_struct *p) { + task_lock(p); if (frozen(p)) { p->flags &= ~PF_FROZEN; + task_unlock(p); wake_up_process(p); return 1; } + clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_FREEZE); + task_unlock(p); return 0; } diff -puN kernel/power/process.c~freezer-close-potential-race-between-refrigerator-and-thaw_tasks kernel/power/process.c --- a/kernel/power/process.c~freezer-close-potential-race-between-refrigerator-and-thaw_tasks +++ a/kernel/power/process.c @@ -37,10 +37,18 @@ void refrigerator(void) /* Hmm, should we be allowed to suspend when there are realtime processes around? */ long save; + + task_lock(current); + if (freezing(current)) { + frozen_process(current); + task_unlock(current); + } else { + task_unlock(current); + return; + } save = current->state; pr_debug("%s entered refrigerator\n", current->comm); - frozen_process(current); spin_lock_irq(¤t->sighand->siglock); recalc_sigpending(); /* We sent fake signal, clean it up */ spin_unlock_irq(¤t->sighand->siglock); @@ -152,10 +160,12 @@ static unsigned int try_to_freeze_tasks( if (is_user_space(p) == !freeze_user_space) continue; + task_lock(p); if (freezeable(p) && !frozen(p)) printk(KERN_ERR " %s\n", p->comm); cancel_freezing(p); + task_unlock(p); } while_each_thread(g, p); read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); } _