On 2014/03/27 22:58, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 04:46:57PM +0800, David Xu wrote:
On 2014/03/27 16:37, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 03:45:17PM +0800, David Xu wrote:
I think the async process pointer can be cleared when a process exits
by registering an event handler. please see attached patch.
Sure, but I'm not very fond of this solution.
This is a rather obscure bug you wont hit unless you explicitly try,
and even then you need root privs by default.
OK, but I don't like the bug exists in kernel. It is not obscure for me,
I can run "shutdown now" command, and insert a device, and then the
kernel will write garbage data into freed memory space.
Not sure what you mean. devd does not use this feature, and even if it
did async_proc is cleared on close, which happens while signal delivery
is still legal.
Thers is no race conidtion when using lock to protect it.
That said, you are not going to encounter this bug unless you code
something up to specifically trigger it.
fwiw, I think we could axe this feature if there was no way to fix it
without introducing a check for every process.
If you added a feature, you can not assume people won't use it.
As such writing a callback function which will be executed for all exiting
processes seems unjustified for me.
Ideally we would get some mechanism which would allow to register
callbacks for events related to given entity. Then it could be used to
provide a "call this function when process p exits", amongst other things.
Yes, but the callback itself is cheap enough and is not worth to be
per-entity entry.
There is other code in the kernel which would benefit from such
functionality - dev/syscons/scmouse, dev/vt/vt_core.c, aio and possibly
more.
As such I think this is worth pursuing.
I can not say more, it seems it is an extension.
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