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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2014-04-07 15:38:41 -0700 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-04-26 17:13:20 -0700 |
commit | d66d2078181ddf2d26585c6737ea43ea8a6f52e6 (patch) | |
tree | 6ef8e1786836c5e8872d6ecd9b9625a13bfe807a /Documentation/sgi-visws.txt | |
parent | 371d9bb7dab6293e79aafb5481b842629a60aa5e (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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