The patch titled ptrace: give more respect to SIGKILL has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ptrace-give-more-respect-to-sigkill.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ptrace: give more respect to SIGKILL From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> ptrace_stop() has some complicated checks to prevent the scheduling in the TASK_TRACED state with the pending SIGKILL, but these checks are racy, and they depend on arch_ptrace_stop_needed(). This patch assumes that the traced task should die asap if it was killed by SIGKILL, in that case schedule()->signal_pending_state() has no reason to ignore the TASK_WAKEKILL part of TASK_TRACED, and we can kill this nasty special case. Note: do_exit()->ptrace_notify() is special, the killed task can already dequeue SIGKILL at this point. Another indication that fatal_signal_pending() is not exactly right. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/sched.h | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/sched.h~ptrace-give-more-respect-to-sigkill include/linux/sched.h --- a/include/linux/sched.h~ptrace-give-more-respect-to-sigkill +++ a/include/linux/sched.h @@ -2039,9 +2039,6 @@ static inline int signal_pending_state(l if (!signal_pending(p)) return 0; - if (state & (__TASK_STOPPED | __TASK_TRACED)) - return 0; - return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are get_user_pages-fix-possible-page-leak-on-oom.patch introduce-pf_kthread-flag.patch kill-pf_borrowed_mm-in-favour-of-pf_kthread.patch coredump-zap_threads-must-skip-kernel-threads.patch posix-timers-timer_delete-remove-the-bogus-it_process-=-null-check.patch posix-timers-release_posix_timer-kill-the-bogus-put_task_struct-it_process.patch signals-collect_signal-remove-the-unneeded-sigismember-check.patch signals-collect_signal-simplify-the-still_pending-logic.patch signals-change-collect_signal-to-return-void.patch __exit_signal-dont-take-rcu-lock.patch signals-dequeue_signal-dont-check-signal_group_exit-when-setting-signal_stop_dequeued.patch signals-do_signal_stop-kill-the-signal_unkillable-check.patch coredump-zap_threads-comments-use-while_each_thread.patch signals-make-siginfo_t-si_utime-si_sstime-report-times-in-user_hz-not-hz.patch kernel-signalc-change-vars-pid-and-tgid-types-to-pid_t.patch include-asm-ptraceh-userspace-headers-cleanup.patch ptrace-give-more-respect-to-sigkill.patch ptrace-never-sleep-in-task_traced-if-sigkilled.patch ptrace-kill-may_ptrace_stop.patch pidns-remove-now-unused-kill_proc-function.patch pidns-remove-now-unused-find_pid-function.patch pidns-remove-find_task_by_pid-unused-for-a-long-time.patch distinct-tgid-tid-i-o-statistics.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