From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932485AbaEEMp0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2014 08:45:26 -0400 Received: from ip4-83-240-18-248.cust.nbox.cz ([83.240.18.248]:41077 "EHLO ip4-83-240-18-248.cust.nbox.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932339AbaEEMng (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2014 08:43:36 -0400 From: Jiri Slaby To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov , Al Viro , Lennart Poettering , Roland McGrath , Tejun Heo , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Jiri Slaby Subject: [PATCH 3.12 49/50] wait: fix reparent_leader() vs EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE race Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 14:43:31 +0200 Message-Id: X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.2 In-Reply-To: <7d4f4737432af6216e86975e587331b9d8b08063.1399292849.git.jslaby@suse.cz> References: <7d4f4737432af6216e86975e587331b9d8b08063.1399292849.git.jslaby@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Oleg Nesterov 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== 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 Reported-by: Jan Kratochvil Reported-by: Michal Schmidt Tested-by: Michal Schmidt Cc: Al Viro Cc: Lennart Poettering Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby --- kernel/exit.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index a949819055d5..92d7823648f8 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -559,9 +559,6 @@ static void reparent_leader(struct task_struct *father, struct task_struct *p, 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. @@ -569,9 +566,19 @@ static void reparent_leader(struct task_struct *father, struct task_struct *p, 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)) { -- 1.9.2