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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2014-04-08 00:38:42 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-04-08 01:36:05 +0200 |
commit | abd50b39e783e1b6c75c7534c37f1eb2d94a89cd (patch) | |
tree | d7ff165c7bf97d54d3ff8bd1f925194a12784c46 /kernel | |
parent | wait: fix reparent_leader() vs EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE race (diff) | |
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wait: introduce EXIT_TRACE to avoid the racy EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE transition
wait_task_zombie() first does EXIT_ZOMBIE->EXIT_DEAD transition and
drops tasklist_lock. If this task is not the natural child and it is
traced, we change its state back to EXIT_ZOMBIE for ->real_parent.
The last transition is racy, this is even documented in 50b8d257486a
"ptrace: partially fix the do_wait(WEXITED) vs EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE
race". wait_consider_task() tries to detect this transition and clear
->notask_error but we can't rely on ptrace_reparented(), debugger can
exit and do ptrace_unlink() before its sub-thread sets EXIT_ZOMBIE.
And there is another problem which were missed before: this transition
can also race with reparent_leader() which doesn't reset >exit_signal if
EXIT_DEAD, assuming that this task must be reaped by someone else. So
the tracee can be re-parented with ->exit_signal != SIGCHLD, and if
/sbin/init doesn't use __WALL it becomes unreapable. This was fixed by
the previous commit, but it was the temporary hack.
1. Add the new exit_state, EXIT_TRACE. It means that the task is the
traced zombie, debugger is going to detach and notify its natural
parent.
This new state is actually EXIT_ZOMBIE | EXIT_DEAD. This way we
can avoid the changes in proc/kgdb code, get_task_state() still
reports "X (dead)" in this case.
Note: with or without this change userspace can see Z -> X -> Z
transition. Not really bad, but probably makes sense to fix.
2. Change wait_task_zombie() to use EXIT_TRACE instead of EXIT_DEAD
if we need to notify the ->real_parent.
3. Revert the previous hack in reparent_leader(), now that EXIT_DEAD
is always the final state we can safely ignore such a task.
4. Change wait_consider_task() to check EXIT_TRACE separately and kill
the racy and no longer needed ptrace_reparented() case.
If ptrace == T an EXIT_TRACE thread should be simply ignored, the
owner of this state is going to ptrace_unlink() this task. We can
pretend that it was already removed from ->ptraced list.
Otherwise we should skip this thread too but clear ->notask_error,
we must be the natural parent and debugger is going to untrace and
notify us. IOW, this doesn't differ from "EXIT_ZOMBIE && p->ptrace"
even if the task was already untraced.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 50 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index e354cbb13a9b..022a0ff17318 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -560,6 +560,9 @@ static void reparent_leader(struct task_struct *father, struct task_struct *p, struct list_head *dead) { list_move_tail(&p->sibling, &p->real_parent->children); + + if (p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD) + return; /* * If this is a threaded reparent there is no need to * notify anyone anything has happened. @@ -567,19 +570,9 @@ static void reparent_leader(struct task_struct *father, struct task_struct *p, if (same_thread_group(p->real_parent, father)) return; - /* - * We don't want people slaying init. - * - * Note: we do this even if it is EXIT_DEAD, wait_task_zombie() - * can change ->exit_state to EXIT_ZOMBIE. If this is the final - * state, do_notify_parent() was already called and ->exit_signal - * doesn't matter. - */ + /* We don't want people slaying init. */ p->exit_signal = SIGCHLD; - if (p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD) - return; - /* If it has exited notify the new parent about this child's death. */ if (!p->ptrace && p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE && thread_group_empty(p)) { @@ -1043,17 +1036,13 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p) return wait_noreap_copyout(wo, p, pid, uid, why, status); } + traced = ptrace_reparented(p); /* - * Try to move the task's state to DEAD - * only one thread is allowed to do this: + * Move the task's state to DEAD/TRACE, only one thread can do this. */ - state = xchg(&p->exit_state, EXIT_DEAD); - if (state != EXIT_ZOMBIE) { - BUG_ON(state != EXIT_DEAD); + state = traced ? EXIT_TRACE : EXIT_DEAD; + if (cmpxchg(&p->exit_state, EXIT_ZOMBIE, state) != EXIT_ZOMBIE) return 0; - } - - traced = ptrace_reparented(p); /* * It can be ptraced but not reparented, check * thread_group_leader() to filter out sub-threads. @@ -1114,7 +1103,7 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p) /* * Now we are sure this task is interesting, and no other - * thread can reap it because we set its state to EXIT_DEAD. + * thread can reap it because we its state == DEAD/TRACE. */ read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); @@ -1159,14 +1148,14 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p) * If this is not a sub-thread, notify the parent. * If parent wants a zombie, don't release it now. */ + state = EXIT_DEAD; if (thread_group_leader(p) && - !do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal)) { - p->exit_state = EXIT_ZOMBIE; - p = NULL; - } + !do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal)) + state = EXIT_ZOMBIE; + p->exit_state = state; write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); } - if (p != NULL) + if (state == EXIT_DEAD) release_task(p); return retval; @@ -1362,12 +1351,15 @@ static int wait_consider_task(struct wait_opts *wo, int ptrace, } /* dead body doesn't have much to contribute */ - if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)) { + if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)) + return 0; + + if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_TRACE)) { /* - * But do not ignore this task until the tracer does - * wait_task_zombie()->do_notify_parent(). + * ptrace == 0 means we are the natural parent. In this case + * we should clear notask_error, debugger will notify us. */ - if (likely(!ptrace) && unlikely(ptrace_reparented(p))) + if (likely(!ptrace)) wo->notask_error = 0; return 0; } |