[PATCH,Hurd] Fix hang on fork

[Samuel Thibault]

Roland McGrath, le Thu 28 Aug 2014 11:21:08 -0700, a écrit :
> Fix comment formatting, put space before paren,

Right, I really need to teach my editor to do the comments properly
automatically...

> write a ChangeLog entry.

This is what I had put, is some information still missing?

* sysdeps/mach/hurd/fork.c (__fork): Lock SS->lock around __proc_dostop() call.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>

---
 sysdeps/mach/hurd/fork.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/fork.c b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/fork.c
index ab11bab..1f0b8a3 100644
--- a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/fork.c
+++ b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/fork.c
@@ -122,9 +122,13 @@ __fork (void)
       ports_locked = 1;
 
 
+      /* Keep our SS locked while stopping other threads, so they don't get a
+         chance to be having it locked in the copied space.  */
+      __spin_lock (&ss->lock);
       /* Stop all other threads while copying the address space,
 	 so nothing changes.  */
       err = __proc_dostop (_hurd_ports[INIT_PORT_PROC].port, ss->thread);
+      __spin_unlock (&ss->lock);
       if (!err)
 	{
 	  stopped = 1;
-- 
tg: (9a079e2..) t/fork_ss_hang (depends on: baseline)