On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 18:53:08 -0800 Ivan Delalande <colona@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We were seeing unexplained segfaults in coreutils processes and other > basic utilities on systems with print-fatal-signals enabled: > > [ 311.001986] potentially unexpected fatal signal 11. > [ 311.001993] CPU: 3 PID: 4565 Comm: tail Tainted: P O 4.9.100.Ar-8497547.eostrunkkernel49 #1 > [ 311.001995] task: ffff88021431b400 task.stack: ffffc90004cec000 > [ 311.001997] RIP: 0023:[<00000000f7722c09>] [<00000000f7722c09>] 0xf7722c09 > [ 311.002003] RSP: 002b:00000000ffcc8aa4 EFLAGS: 00000296 > [ 311.002004] RAX: fffffffffffffff2 RBX: 0000000057efc530 RCX: 0000000057efdb68 > [ 311.002006] RDX: 0000000057effb60 RSI: 0000000057efdb68 RDI: 00000000f768f000 > [ 311.002007] RBP: 0000000057efc530 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 > [ 311.002008] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 > [ 311.002009] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 > [ 311.002011] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88021e980000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > [ 311.002013] CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033 > [ 311.002014] CR2: 00000000f77bf097 CR3: 0000000150f6f000 CR4: 00000000000406f0 > > We tracked these crashes down to binfmt_elf failing to load segments > for ld.so inside the kernel. Digging further, the actual problem > seems to occur when a process gets sigkilled while it is still being > loaded by the kernel. In our case when _do_page_fault goes for a retry > it will return early as it first checks for fatal_signal_pending(), so > load_elf_interp also returns with error and as a result > search_binary_handler will force_sigsegv() which is pretty confusing as > nothing actually failed here. > > > v2: add a message when load_binary fails, add a check for fatal signals > in signal_delivered (avoiding a single check in force_sigsegv as other > architectures use it directly and may have different expectations). > > Thanks to Dmitry Safonov and Oleg Nesterov for their comments and > suggestions. > > ... > > --- a/fs/exec.c > +++ b/fs/exec.c > @@ -1660,7 +1660,12 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_binprm *bprm) > if (retval < 0 && !bprm->mm) { > /* we got to flush_old_exec() and failed after it */ > read_unlock(&binfmt_lock); > - force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV, current); > + if (!fatal_signal_pending(current)) { > + if (print_fatal_signals) > + pr_info("load_binary() failed: %d\n", > + retval); Should we be using print_fatal_signal() here? > + force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV, current); > + } > return retval; > } > if (retval != -ENOEXEC || !bprm->file) { > diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c > index e1d7ad8e6ab1..674076e63624 100644 > --- a/kernel/signal.c > +++ b/kernel/signal.c > @@ -2552,10 +2552,10 @@ static void signal_delivered(struct ksignal *ksig, int stepping) > > void signal_setup_done(int failed, struct ksignal *ksig, int stepping) > { > - if (failed) > - force_sigsegv(ksig->sig, current); > - else > + if (!failed) > signal_delivered(ksig, stepping); > + else if (!fatal_signal_pending(current)) > + force_sigsegv(ksig->sig, current); > }