On 03/14, Josh Triplett wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 03:35:58PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 03/12, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > >
> > > @@ -598,7 +600,9 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
> > > if (group_dead)
> > > kill_orphaned_pgrp(tsk->group_leader, NULL);
> > >
> > > - if (unlikely(tsk->ptrace)) {
> > > + if (tsk->autoreap) {
> > > + autoreap = true;
> > > + } else if (unlikely(tsk->ptrace)) {
> > > int sig = thread_group_leader(tsk) &&
> > > thread_group_empty(tsk) &&
> > > !ptrace_reparented(tsk) ?
> > > @@ -612,8 +616,10 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
> > > }
> > >
> > > tsk->exit_state = autoreap ? EXIT_DEAD : EXIT_ZOMBIE;
> > > - if (tsk->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)
> > > + if (tsk->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD) {
> > > list_add(&tsk->ptrace_entry, &dead);
> > > + clonefd_do_notify(tsk);
> > > + }
> >
> > And even ignoring semantics issues, this change looks simply buggy anyway ;)
> >
> > How can we do list_add(&tsk->ptrace_entry) if it is traced by _another_ task?
> > ->ptrace_entry is used by debugger.
>
> That list_add was there before; I didn't change that.
But this doesn't matter,
> I just added a
> second line inside the EXIT_DEAD case, to call clonefd_do_notify (which
> wakes up potential callers of poll/read).
No. Please read this code before and after your patch. You also added
if (tsk->autoreap)
autoreap = true;
at the start. At this can trigger the _wrong_ list_add(&tsk->ptrace_entry),
when the task is traced by another thread.
The current code can only use ->ptrace_entry if it was untraced (by us).
Oleg.
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