The patch titled Subject: ptrace: make wait_on_bit(JOBCTL_TRAPPING_BIT) in ptrace_attach() killable has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was ptrace-make-wait_on_bitjobctl_trapping_bit-in-ptrace_attach-killable.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ptrace: make wait_on_bit(JOBCTL_TRAPPING_BIT) in ptrace_attach() killable ptrace_attach() can hang waiting for STOPPED -> TRACED transition if the tracee gets frozen in between, change wait_on_bit() to use TASK_KILLABLE. This doesn't really solve the problem(s) and we probably need to fix the freezer. In particular, note that this means that pm freezer will fail if it races attach-to-stopped-task. And otoh perhaps we can just remove JOBCTL_TRAPPING_BIT altogether, it is not clear if we really need to hide this transition from debugger, WNOHANG after PTRACE_ATTACH can fail anyway if it races with SIGCONT. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/ptrace.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/ptrace.c~ptrace-make-wait_on_bitjobctl_trapping_bit-in-ptrace_attach-killable kernel/ptrace.c --- a/kernel/ptrace.c~ptrace-make-wait_on_bitjobctl_trapping_bit-in-ptrace_attach-killable +++ a/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -364,8 +364,14 @@ unlock_creds: mutex_unlock(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex); out: if (!retval) { - wait_on_bit(&task->jobctl, JOBCTL_TRAPPING_BIT, - TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); + /* + * We do not bother to change retval or clear JOBCTL_TRAPPING + * if wait_on_bit() was interrupted by SIGKILL. The tracer will + * not return to user-mode, it will exit and clear this bit in + * __ptrace_unlink() if it wasn't already cleared by the tracee; + * and until then nobody can ptrace this task. + */ + wait_on_bit(&task->jobctl, JOBCTL_TRAPPING_BIT, TASK_KILLABLE); proc_ptrace_connector(task, PTRACE_ATTACH); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are -- 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