From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
Robert Rex <robert.rex@exasol.com>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>,
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] pid_ns: zap_pid_ns_processes: fix the ->child_reaper changing
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:49:11 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080824154911.GA3777@tv-sign.ru> (raw)
zap_pid_ns_processes() sets pid_ns->child_reaper = NULL, this is wrong.
Yes, we have already killed all tasks in this namespace, and sys_wait4()
doesn't see any child. But this doesn't mean ->children list is empty,
we may have EXIT_DEAD tasks which are not visible to do_wait(). In that
case the subsequent forget_original_parent() will crash the kernel because
it will try to re-parent these tasks to the NULL reaper.
Even if there are no childs, it is not good that forget_original_parent()
uses reaper == NULL.
Change the code to set ->child_reaper = init_pid_ns.child_reaper instead.
We could use pid_ns->parent->child_reaper as well, I think this does not
really matter. These EXIT_DEAD tasks are not visible to the new ->parent
after re-parenting, they will silently do release_task() eventually.
Note that we must change ->child_reaper, otherwise forget_original_parent()
will use reaper == father, and in that case we will hit the (correct)
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&father->children)).
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
--- 2.6.27-rc4/kernel/pid_namespace.c~1_ZAP_DONT_CLEAR_REAPER 2008-07-30 13:12:49.000000000 +0400
+++ 2.6.27-rc4/kernel/pid_namespace.c 2008-08-24 17:22:59.000000000 +0400
@@ -179,9 +179,12 @@ void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_nam
rc = sys_wait4(-1, NULL, __WALL, NULL);
} while (rc != -ECHILD);
-
- /* Child reaper for the pid namespace is going away */
- pid_ns->child_reaper = NULL;
+ /*
+ * We can not clear ->child_reaper or leave it alone.
+ * There may by stealth EXIT_DEAD tasks on ->children,
+ * forget_original_parent() must move them somewhere.
+ */
+ pid_ns->child_reaper = init_pid_ns.child_reaper;
acct_exit_ns(pid_ns);
return;
}
next reply other threads:[~2008-08-24 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-24 15:49 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2008-08-26 21:25 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-08-27 16:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-08-27 1:43 ` sukadev
2008-08-27 11:35 ` Pavel Emelyanov
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