The patch titled Subject: exit: fix race between wait_consider_task() and wait_task_zombie() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was exit-fix-race-between-wait_consider_task-and-wait_task_zombie.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: exit: fix race between wait_consider_task() and wait_task_zombie() wait_consider_task() checks EXIT_ZOMBIE after EXIT_DEAD/EXIT_TRACE and both checks can fail if we race with EXIT_ZOMBIE -> EXIT_DEAD/EXIT_TRACE change in between, gcc needs to reload p->exit_state after security_task_wait(). In this case ->notask_error will be wrongly cleared and do_wait() can hang forever if it was the last eligible child. Many thanks to Arne who carefully investigated the problem. Note: this bug is very old but it was pure theoretical until b3ab03160dfa "wait: completely ignore the EXIT_DEAD tasks". Before this commit "-O2" was probably enough to guarantee that compiler won't read ->exit_state twice. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Arne Goedeke <el@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Arne Goedeke <el@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [3.15+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/exit.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/exit.c~exit-fix-race-between-wait_consider_task-and-wait_task_zombie kernel/exit.c --- a/kernel/exit.c~exit-fix-race-between-wait_consider_task-and-wait_task_zombie +++ a/kernel/exit.c @@ -1287,9 +1287,15 @@ static int wait_task_continued(struct wa static int wait_consider_task(struct wait_opts *wo, int ptrace, struct task_struct *p) { + /* + * We can race with wait_task_zombie() from another thread. + * Ensure that EXIT_ZOMBIE -> EXIT_DEAD/EXIT_TRACE transition + * can't confuse the checks below. + */ + int exit_state = ACCESS_ONCE(p->exit_state); int ret; - if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)) + if (unlikely(exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)) return 0; ret = eligible_child(wo, p); @@ -1310,7 +1316,7 @@ static int wait_consider_task(struct wai return 0; } - if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_TRACE)) { + if (unlikely(exit_state == EXIT_TRACE)) { /* * ptrace == 0 means we are the natural parent. In this case * we should clear notask_error, debugger will notify us. @@ -1337,7 +1343,7 @@ static int wait_consider_task(struct wai } /* slay zombie? */ - if (p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) { + if (exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) { /* we don't reap group leaders with subthreads */ if (!delay_group_leader(p)) { /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are oom-dont-count-on-mm-less-current-process.patch oom-make-sure-that-tif_memdie-is-set-under-task_lock.patch all-arches-signal-move-restart_block-to-struct-task_struct.patch ptrace-remove-linux-compath-inclusion-under-config_compat.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html