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-rw-r--r--pkg/sentry/kernel/sessions.go8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/sentry/kernel/sessions.go b/pkg/sentry/kernel/sessions.go
index e5f297478..047b5214d 100644
--- a/pkg/sentry/kernel/sessions.go
+++ b/pkg/sentry/kernel/sessions.go
@@ -328,8 +328,14 @@ func (tg *ThreadGroup) createSession() error {
childTG.processGroup.incRefWithParent(pg)
childTG.processGroup.decRefWithParent(oldParentPG)
})
- tg.processGroup.decRefWithParent(oldParentPG)
+ // If tg.processGroup is an orphan, decRefWithParent will lock
+ // the signal mutex of each thread group in tg.processGroup.
+ // However, tg's signal mutex may already be locked at this
+ // point. We change tg's process group before calling
+ // decRefWithParent to avoid locking tg's signal mutex twice.
+ oldPG := tg.processGroup
tg.processGroup = pg
+ oldPG.decRefWithParent(oldParentPG)
} else {
// The current process group may be nil only in the case of an
// unparented thread group (i.e. the init process). This would