Hello, Christian.
I was looking at cgroup.kill implementation and wondering whether there
could be a race window. So, __cgroup_kill() does the following:
k1. Set CGRP_KILL.
k2. Iterate tasks and deliver SIGKILL.
k3. Clear CGRP_KILL.
The copy_process() does the following:
c1. Copy a bunch of stuff.
c2. Grab siglock.
c3. Check fatal_signal_pending().
c4. Commit to forking.
c5. Release siglock.
c6. Call cgroup_post_fork() which puts the task on the css_set and tests
CGRP_KILL.
The intention seems to be that either a forking task gets SIGKILL and
terminates on c3 or it sees CGRP_KILL on c6 and kills the child. However, I
don't see what guarantees that k3 can't happen before c6. ie. After a
forking task passes c5, k2 can take place and then before the forking task
reaches c6, k3 can happen. Then, nobody would send SIGKILL to the child.
What am I missing?
Thanks.
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tejun
