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authorPavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>2017-01-30 18:06:12 +0300
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2017-02-03 16:55:15 +1300
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prctl: propagate has_child_subreaper flag to every descendant
If process forks some children when it has is_child_subreaper flag enabled they will inherit has_child_subreaper flag - first group, when is_child_subreaper is disabled forked children will not inherit it - second group. So child-subreaper does not reparent all his descendants when their parents die. Having these two differently behaving groups can lead to confusion. Also it is a problem for CRIU, as when we restore process tree we need to somehow determine which descendants belong to which group and much harder - to put them exactly to these group. To simplify these we can add a propagation of has_child_subreaper flag on PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER, walking all descendants of child- subreaper to setup has_child_subreaper flag. In common cases when process like systemd first sets itself to be a child-subreaper and only after that forks its services, we will have zero-length list of descendants to walk. Testing with binary subtree of 2^15 processes prctl took < 0.007 sec and has shown close to linear dependency(~0.2 * n * usec) on lower numbers of processes. Moreover, I doubt someone intentionaly pre-forks the children whitch should reparent to init before becoming subreaper, because some our ancestor migh have had is_child_subreaper flag while forking our sub-tree and our childs will all inherit has_child_subreaper flag, and we have no way to influence it. And only way to check if we have no has_child_subreaper flag is to create some childs, kill them and see where they will reparent to. Using walk_process_tree helper to walk subtree, thanks to Oleg! Timing seems to be the same. Optimize: a) When descendant already has has_child_subreaper flag all his subtree has it too already. * for a) to be true need to move has_child_subreaper inheritance under the same tasklist_lock with adding task to its ->real_parent->children as without it process can inherit zero has_child_subreaper, then we set 1 to it's parent flag, check that parent has no more children, and only after child with wrong flag is added to the tree. * Also make these inheritance more clear by using real_parent instead of current, as on clone(CLONE_PARENT) if current has is_child_subreaper and real_parent has no is_child_subreaper or has_child_subreaper, child will have has_child_subreaper flag set without actually having a subreaper in it's ancestors. b) When some descendant is child_reaper, it's subtree is in different pidns from us(original child-subreaper) and processes from other pidns will never reparent to us. So we can skip their(a,b) subtree from walk. v2: switch to walk_process_tree() general helper, move has_child_subreaper inheritance v3: remove csr_descendant leftover, change current to real_parent in has_child_subreaper inheritance v4: small commit message fix Fixes: ebec18a6d3aa ("prctl: add PR_{SET,GET}_CHILD_SUBREAPER to allow simple process supervision") Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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