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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2014-04-07 15:38:41 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-04-26 17:13:20 -0700
commitd66d2078181ddf2d26585c6737ea43ea8a6f52e6 (patch)
tree6ef8e1786836c5e8872d6ecd9b9625a13bfe807a /Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl
parent371d9bb7dab6293e79aafb5481b842629a60aa5e (diff)
wait: fix reparent_leader() vs EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE race
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@redhat.com> Reported-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Reported-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Tested-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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