Re: [PATCH v3] kernel/exit: do panic earlier to get coredump if global init task exit

[Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>]

On December 20, 2019 8:38:00 PM GMT+01:00, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
>On 12/19, qiwuchen55@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> @@ -517,10 +517,6 @@ static struct task_struct
>*find_child_reaper(struct task_struct *father,
>>  	}
>>  
>>  	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
>> -	if (unlikely(pid_ns == &init_pid_ns)) {
>> -		panic("Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x%08x\n",
>> -			father->signal->group_exit_code ?: father->exit_code);
>> -	}
>>  
>>  	list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, dead, ptrace_entry) {
>>  		list_del_init(&p->ptrace_entry);
>> @@ -766,6 +762,15 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code)
>>  	acct_update_integrals(tsk);
>>  	group_dead = atomic_dec_and_test(&tsk->signal->live);
>>  	if (group_dead) {
>> +		/*
>> +		 * If the last thread of global init exit, do panic
>> +		 * immeddiately to get the coredump to find any clue
>> +		 * for init task in userspace.
>> +		 */
>> +		if (unlikely(is_global_init(tsk)))
>> +			panic("Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x%08x\n",
>> +				tsk->signal->group_exit_code ?: (int)code);
>> +
>
>Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

Thanks. I'll pick this up unless someone objects.

Christian