From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
Gary Lin <GLin@suse.com>, Bruno Meneguele <bmeneg@redhat.com>,
LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 13/16] exit: Factor thread_group_exited out of pidfd_poll
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 02:05:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a84ec1df-dc9b-dd5b-cc34-385fd3ca1da4@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu4bjlqm.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
On 7/7/20 7:09 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> writes:
>> On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 04:37:47PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 11:41:37AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>>> Create an independent helper thread_group_exited report return true
>>>>> when all threads have passed exit_notify in do_exit. AKA all of the
>>>>> threads are at least zombies and might be dead or completely gone.
>>>>>
>>>>> Create this helper by taking the logic out of pidfd_poll where
>>>>> it is already tested, and adding a missing READ_ONCE on
>>>>> the read of task->exit_state.
>>>>>
>>>>> I will be changing the user mode driver code to use this same logic
>>>>> to know when a user mode driver needs to be restarted.
>>>>>
>>>>> Place the new helper thread_group_exited in kernel/exit.c and
>>>>> EXPORT it so it can be used by modules.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> include/linux/sched/signal.h | 2 ++
>>>>> kernel/exit.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>> kernel/fork.c | 6 +-----
>>>>> 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/sched/signal.h b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
>>>>> index 0ee5e696c5d8..1bad18a1d8ba 100644
>>>>> --- a/include/linux/sched/signal.h
>>>>> +++ b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
>>>>> @@ -674,6 +674,8 @@ static inline int thread_group_empty(struct task_struct *p)
>>>>> #define delay_group_leader(p) \
>>>>> (thread_group_leader(p) && !thread_group_empty(p))
>>>>>
>>>>> +extern bool thread_group_exited(struct pid *pid);
>>>>> +
>>>>> extern struct sighand_struct *__lock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *task,
>>>>> unsigned long *flags);
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
>>>>> index d3294b611df1..a7f112feb0f6 100644
>>>>> --- a/kernel/exit.c
>>>>> +++ b/kernel/exit.c
>>>>> @@ -1713,6 +1713,30 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(waitid,
>>>>> }
>>>>> #endif
>>>>>
>>>>> +/**
>>>>> + * thread_group_exited - check that a thread group has exited
>>>>> + * @pid: tgid of thread group to be checked.
>>>>> + *
>>>>> + * Test if thread group is has exited (all threads are zombies, dead
>>>>> + * or completely gone).
>>>>> + *
>>>>> + * Return: true if the thread group has exited. false otherwise.
>>>>> + */
>>>>> +bool thread_group_exited(struct pid *pid)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> + struct task_struct *task;
>>>>> + bool exited;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + rcu_read_lock();
>>>>> + task = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
>>>>> + exited = !task ||
>>>>> + (READ_ONCE(task->exit_state) && thread_group_empty(task));
>>>>> + rcu_read_unlock();
>>>>> +
>>>>> + return exited;
>>>>> +}
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure why you think READ_ONCE was missing.
>>>> It's different in wait_consider_task() where READ_ONCE is needed because
>>>> of multiple checks. Here it's done once.
>>>
>>> In practice it probably has no effect on the generated code. But
>>> READ_ONCE is about telling the compiler not to be clever. Don't use
>>> tearing loads or stores etc. When all of the other readers are using
>>> READ_ONCE I just get nervous if we have a case that doesn't.
>>
>> That's not true. The only place where READ_ONCE(->exit_state) is used is
>> in wait_consider_task() and nowhere else. We had that discussion a while
>> ago where I or someone proposed to simply place a READ_ONCE() around all
>> accesses to exit_state for the sake of kcsan and we agreed that it's
>> unnecessary and not to do this.
>> But it obviously doesn't hurt to have it.
>
> There is a larger discussion to be had around the proper handling of
> exit_state.
>
> In this particular case because we are accessing exit_state with
> only rcu_read_lock protection, because the outcome of the read
> is about correctness, and because the compiler has nothing else
> telling it not to re-read exit_state, I believe we actually need
> the READ_ONCE.
>
> At the same time it would take a pretty special compiler to want to
> reaccess that field in thread_group_exited.
>
> I have looked through and I don't find any of the other access of
> exit_state where the result is about correctness (so that we care)
> and we don't hold tasklist_lock.
>
> But I have removed the necessary wording from the commit comment.
Hey Eric, are you planning to push the final version into a topic branch
so it can be pulled into bpf-next as discussed earlier?
Thanks,
Daniel
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2020-06-06 19:20 ` [RFC][PATCH] net/bpfilter: Remove this broken and apparently unmantained Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-06 20:19 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-06 22:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-07 1:49 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-07 2:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-07 16:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-08 16:20 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-08 16:40 ` Greg KH
2020-06-08 18:35 ` Kees Cook
2020-06-09 1:26 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-09 15:37 ` Kees Cook
2020-06-09 19:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-07 2:31 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-08 16:23 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-08 23:22 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-09 1:28 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-09 5:29 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-09 22:32 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-09 23:30 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-10 0:05 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-10 3:08 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-10 3:32 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-10 7:30 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-10 16:24 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-06-09 20:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-09 23:56 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-10 21:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-11 23:31 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-12 0:57 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-13 3:38 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-13 4:22 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-13 14:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-13 15:33 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-13 16:14 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-14 14:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-16 1:55 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-16 16:21 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-23 18:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-23 18:35 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-23 18:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-23 19:40 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-24 1:51 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-24 4:00 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-24 4:58 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-24 6:39 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-24 7:05 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-24 15:41 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-06-24 17:54 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-24 19:48 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-06-24 6:05 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-24 14:18 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-24 12:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-24 14:26 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-24 23:14 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-25 1:35 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-25 6:38 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-25 9:57 ` Greg KH
2020-06-25 11:03 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-25 12:07 ` Greg KH
2020-06-25 14:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-25 19:34 ` David Miller
2020-06-26 1:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-26 1:51 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-26 4:58 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-26 5:41 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-26 6:20 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-26 6:39 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-26 12:51 ` [PATCH 00/14] Make the user mode driver code a better citizen Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:53 ` [PATCH 01/14] umh: Capture the pid in umh_pipe_setup Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:53 ` [PATCH 02/14] umh: Move setting PF_UMH into umh_pipe_setup Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:54 ` [PATCH 03/14] umh: Rename the user mode driver helpers for clarity Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:54 ` [PATCH 04/14] umh: Remove call_usermodehelper_setup_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:55 ` [PATCH 05/14] umh: Separate the user mode driver and the user mode helper support Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 16:22 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-26 16:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-27 1:26 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-27 4:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-27 4:36 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-26 12:55 ` [PATCH 06/14] umd: For clarity rename umh_info umd_info Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 15:37 ` Kees Cook
2020-06-26 16:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 07/14] umd: Rename umd_info.cmdline umd_info.driver_name Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 08/14] umd: Transform fork_usermode_blob into fork_usermode_driver Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:57 ` [PATCH 09/14] umh: Stop calling do_execve_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:57 ` [PATCH 10/14] exec: Remove do_execve_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:58 ` [PATCH 11/14] bpfilter: Move bpfilter_umh back into init data Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:58 ` [PATCH 12/14] umd: Track user space drivers with struct pid Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:59 ` [PATCH 13/14] bpfilter: Take advantage of the facilities of " Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:59 ` [PATCH 14/14] umd: Remove exit_umh Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 13:48 ` [PATCH 00/14] Make the user mode driver code a better citizen Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 19:55 ` [PATCH v2 00/15] " Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 19:56 ` [PATCH v2 01/15] umh: Capture the pid in umh_pipe_setup Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 02/15] umh: Move setting PF_UMH into umh_pipe_setup Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 03/15] umh: Rename the user mode driver helpers for clarity Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 19:59 ` [PATCH v2 04/15] umh: Remove call_usermodehelper_setup_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 05/15] umh: Separate the user mode driver and the user mode helper support Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 16:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-01 17:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-01 17:42 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-29 20:01 ` [PATCH v2 06/15] umd: For clarity rename umh_info umd_info Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:02 ` [PATCH v2 07/15] umd: Rename umd_info.cmdline umd_info.driver_name Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 08/15] umd: Transform fork_usermode_blob into fork_usermode_driver Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 09/15] umh: Stop calling do_execve_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:04 ` [PATCH v2 10/15] exec: Remove do_execve_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 5:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-30 12:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 13:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-30 14:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 16:55 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-29 20:05 ` [PATCH v2 11/15] bpfilter: Move bpfilter_umh back into init data Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 12/15] umd: Track user space drivers with struct pid Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 13/15] bpfilter: Take advantage of the facilities of " Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:07 ` [PATCH v2 14/15] umd: Remove exit_umh Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 15/15] umd: Stop using split_argv Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 22:12 ` [PATCH v2 00/15] Make the user mode driver code a better citizen Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-30 1:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 6:16 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-30 12:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 13:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-07-02 13:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 13:40 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-07-02 16:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-03 13:19 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-07-03 22:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-04 6:57 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-07-08 4:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 16:52 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-07-01 17:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:40 ` [PATCH v3 00/16] " Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 01/16] umh: Capture the pid in umh_pipe_setup Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 02/16] umh: Move setting PF_UMH into umh_pipe_setup Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 03/16] umh: Rename the user mode driver helpers for clarity Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 04/16] umh: Remove call_usermodehelper_setup_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 05/16] umh: Separate the user mode driver and the user mode helper support Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 06/16] umd: For clarity rename umh_info umd_info Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 07/16] umd: Rename umd_info.cmdline umd_info.driver_name Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 08/16] umd: Transform fork_usermode_blob into fork_usermode_driver Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 09/16] umh: Stop calling do_execve_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 10/16] exec: Remove do_execve_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-08 6:35 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-07-08 12:41 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-07-08 13:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-08 13:32 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-07-12 21:02 ` Pavel Machek
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 11/16] bpfilter: Move bpfilter_umh back into init data Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 12/16] umd: Track user space drivers with struct pid Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 13/16] exit: Factor thread_group_exited out of pidfd_poll Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-03 20:30 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-07-03 21:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-04 0:03 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-07-04 15:50 ` Christian Brauner
2020-07-07 17:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-08 0:05 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2020-07-08 3:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-04 16:00 ` Christian Brauner
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 14/16] bpfilter: Take advantage of the facilities of struct pid Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 15/16] umd: Remove exit_umh Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 16/16] umd: Stop using split_argv Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 23:51 ` [PATCH v3 00/16] Make the user mode driver code a better citizen Tetsuo Handa
2020-07-09 22:05 ` [merged][PATCH " Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-14 19:42 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-07-08 5:20 ` [PATCH v2 00/15] " Luis Chamberlain
2020-06-26 14:10 ` [PATCH 00/14] " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-26 16:40 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-26 17:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 18:22 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-27 11:38 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-27 12:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-27 13:57 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-28 19:44 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-29 2:20 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-29 20:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 6:28 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-30 12:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 16:48 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-30 21:54 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-30 21:57 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-30 22:58 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-25 12:56 ` [RFC][PATCH] net/bpfilter: Remove this broken and apparently unmantained Stephen Smalley
2020-06-25 13:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-25 14:26 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-06-25 14:36 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-06-25 15:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-25 16:03 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-06-25 16:06 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-06-26 11:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-07 5:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-07 11:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-08 16:35 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-08 16:33 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-06 20:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-07 15:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
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