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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2012-01-04 17:29:02 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-01-04 15:01:59 -0800 |
commit | 50b8d257486a45cba7b65ca978986ed216bbcc10 (patch) | |
tree | 0bcbb7eefaaf3da47a23c259e91baf414319ff96 /kernel/exit.c | |
parent | 8d9cbf8240023f5b6d19f2106aff3d7077fc4a3b (diff) | |
download | linux-50b8d257486a45cba7b65ca978986ed216bbcc10.tar.bz2 |
ptrace: partially fix the do_wait(WEXITED) vs EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE race
Test-case:
int main(void)
{
int pid, status;
pid = fork();
if (!pid) {
for (;;) {
if (!fork())
return 0;
if (waitpid(-1, &status, 0) < 0) {
printf("ERR!! wait: %m\n");
return 0;
}
}
}
assert(ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, 0,0) == 0);
assert(waitpid(-1, NULL, 0) == pid);
assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, 0,
PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK) == 0);
do {
ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, 0, 0);
pid = waitpid(-1, NULL, 0);
} while (pid > 0);
return 1;
}
It fails because ->real_parent sees its child in EXIT_DEAD state
while the tracer is going to change the state back to EXIT_ZOMBIE
in wait_task_zombie().
The offending commit is 823b018e which moved the EXIT_DEAD check,
but in fact we should not blame it. The original code was not
correct as well because it didn't take ptrace_reparented() into
account and because we can't really trust ->ptrace.
This patch adds the additional check to close this particular
race but it doesn't solve the whole problem. We simply can't
rely on ->ptrace in this case, it can be cleared if the tracer
is multithreaded by the exiting ->parent.
I think we should kill EXIT_DEAD altogether, we should always
remove the soon-to-be-reaped child from ->children or at least
we should never do the DEAD->ZOMBIE transition. But this is too
complex for 3.2.
Reported-and-tested-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Lukasz Michalik <lmi@ift.uni.wroc.pl>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [3.0+]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index d0b7d988f873..e6e01b959a0e 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -1540,8 +1540,15 @@ static int wait_consider_task(struct wait_opts *wo, int ptrace, } /* dead body doesn't have much to contribute */ - if (p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD) + if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)) { + /* + * But do not ignore this task until the tracer does + * wait_task_zombie()->do_notify_parent(). + */ + if (likely(!ptrace) && unlikely(ptrace_reparented(p))) + wo->notask_error = 0; return 0; + } /* slay zombie? */ if (p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) { |