This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wait: fix reparent_leader() vs EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE race
to the 3.14-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:
wait-fix-reparent_leader-vs-exit_dead-exit_zombie-race.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From dfccbb5e49a621c1b21a62527d61fc4305617aca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:38:41 -0700
Subject: wait: fix reparent_leader() vs EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE race
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit dfccbb5e49a621c1b21a62527d61fc4305617aca upstream.
wait_task_zombie() first does EXIT_ZOMBIE->EXIT_DEAD transition and
drops tasklist_lock. If this task is not the natural child and it is
traced, we change its state back to EXIT_ZOMBIE for ->real_parent.
The last transition is racy, this is even documented in 50b8d257486a
"ptrace: partially fix the do_wait(WEXITED) vs EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE
race". wait_consider_task() tries to detect this transition and clear
->notask_error but we can't rely on ptrace_reparented(), debugger can
exit and do ptrace_unlink() before its sub-thread sets EXIT_ZOMBIE.
And there is another problem which were missed before: this transition
can also race with reparent_leader() which doesn't reset >exit_signal if
EXIT_DEAD, assuming that this task must be reaped by someone else. So
the tracee can be re-parented with ->exit_signal != SIGCHLD, and if
/sbin/init doesn't use __WALL it becomes unreapable.
Change reparent_leader() to update ->exit_signal even if EXIT_DEAD.
Note: this is the simple temporary hack for -stable, it doesn't try to
solve all problems, it will be reverted by the next changes.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/exit.c | 15 +++++++++++----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -560,9 +560,6 @@ static void reparent_leader(struct task_
struct list_head *dead)
{
list_move_tail(&p->sibling, &p->real_parent->children);
-
- if (p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)
- return;
/*
* If this is a threaded reparent there is no need to
* notify anyone anything has happened.
@@ -570,9 +567,19 @@ static void reparent_leader(struct task_
if (same_thread_group(p->real_parent, father))
return;
- /* We don't want people slaying init. */
+ /*
+ * We don't want people slaying init.
+ *
+ * Note: we do this even if it is EXIT_DEAD, wait_task_zombie()
+ * can change ->exit_state to EXIT_ZOMBIE. If this is the final
+ * state, do_notify_parent() was already called and ->exit_signal
+ * doesn't matter.
+ */
p->exit_signal = SIGCHLD;
+ if (p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)
+ return;
+
/* If it has exited notify the new parent about this child's death. */
if (!p->ptrace &&
p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE && thread_group_empty(p)) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/wait-fix-reparent_leader-vs-exit_dead-exit_zombie-race.patch
queue-3.14/pid_namespace-pidns_get-should-check-task_active_pid_ns-null.patch
queue-3.14/exit-call-disassociate_ctty-before-exit_task_namespaces.patch
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