This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled coredump: fix unfreezable coredumping task to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: coredump-fix-unfreezable-coredumping-task.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 70d78fe7c8b640b5acfad56ad341985b3810998a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:46:38 -0800 Subject: coredump: fix unfreezable coredumping task From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 70d78fe7c8b640b5acfad56ad341985b3810998a upstream. It could be not possible to freeze coredumping task when it waits for 'core_state->startup' completion, because threads are frozen in get_signal() before they got a chance to complete 'core_state->startup'. Inability to freeze a task during suspend will cause suspend to fail. Also CRIU uses cgroup freezer during dump operation. So with an unfreezable task the CRIU dump will fail because it waits for a transition from 'FREEZING' to 'FROZEN' state which will never happen. Use freezer_do_not_count() to tell freezer to ignore coredumping task while it waits for core_state->startup completion. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475225434-3753-1-git-send-email-aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/coredump.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/fs/coredump.c +++ b/fs/coredump.c @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/file.h> #include <linux/fdtable.h> +#include <linux/freezer.h> #include <linux/mm.h> #include <linux/stat.h> #include <linux/fcntl.h> @@ -423,7 +424,9 @@ static int coredump_wait(int exit_code, if (core_waiters > 0) { struct core_thread *ptr; + freezer_do_not_count(); wait_for_completion(&core_state->startup); + freezer_count(); /* * Wait for all the threads to become inactive, so that * all the thread context (extended register state, like Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.8/coredump-fix-unfreezable-coredumping-task.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html