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| author | Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> | 2019-07-17 19:21:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io> | 2019-07-22 16:02:03 +0200 |
| commit | b191d6491be67cef2b3fa83015561caca1394ab9 (patch) | |
| tree | 6be65f501b18e03aeb3c456f87a36b04dc45043b /kernel | |
| parent | Linus 5.3-rc1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b191d6491be67cef2b3fa83015561caca1394ab9.tar.xz linux-b191d6491be67cef2b3fa83015561caca1394ab9.zip | |
pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state
There is a race between reading task->exit_state in pidfd_poll and
writing it after do_notify_parent calls do_notify_pidfd. Expected
sequence of events is:
CPU 0 CPU 1
------------------------------------------------
exit_notify
do_notify_parent
do_notify_pidfd
tsk->exit_state = EXIT_DEAD
pidfd_poll
if (tsk->exit_state)
However nothing prevents the following sequence:
CPU 0 CPU 1
------------------------------------------------
exit_notify
do_notify_parent
do_notify_pidfd
pidfd_poll
if (tsk->exit_state)
tsk->exit_state = EXIT_DEAD
This causes a polling task to wait forever, since poll blocks because
exit_state is 0 and the waiting task is not notified again. A stress
test continuously doing pidfd poll and process exits uncovered this bug.
To fix it, we make sure that the task's exit_state is always set before
calling do_notify_pidfd.
Fixes: b53b0b9d9a6 ("pidfd: add polling support")
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190717172100.261204-1-joel@joelfernandes.org
[christian@brauner.io: adapt commit message and drop unneeded changes from wait_task_zombie]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index a75b6a7f458a..4436158a6d30 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -720,6 +720,7 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead) if (group_dead) kill_orphaned_pgrp(tsk->group_leader, NULL); + tsk->exit_state = EXIT_ZOMBIE; if (unlikely(tsk->ptrace)) { int sig = thread_group_leader(tsk) && thread_group_empty(tsk) && |