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init, sched: Fix race between init and kthreadd
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:51:01 +0000 (16:51 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 9 May 2011 22:55:36 +0000 (15:55 -0700)
commit572a42d1f4c4dcf686eb7b25741e99e789f8d213
treea44699c235dd238d378a45aa62be66ca1f225a53
parent6034a281f077b621859fb7b2f362fc9d693ea218
init, sched: Fix race between init and kthreadd

commit b433c3d4549ae74935b585115f076c6fb7bc48fe upstream.

Ilya reported that on a very slow machine he could reliably
reproduce a race between forking init and kthreadd. We first
fork init so that it  obtains pid-1, however since the scheduler
is already fully running at this point it can preempt and run
the init thread before we spawn and set kthreadd_task.

The init thread can then attempt spawning kthreads without
kthreadd being present which results in an OOPS.

Reported-by: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1277736661.3561.110.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
init/main.c