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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: [72/73] ptrace: partially fix the do_wait(WEXITED) vs EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE race
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:44:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120105224403.138492777@clark.kroah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120105224632.GA14659@kroah.com>

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

commit 50b8d257486a45cba7b65ca978986ed216bbcc10 upstream.

Test-case:

	int main(void)
	{
		int pid, status;

		pid = fork();
		if (!pid) {
			for (;;) {
				if (!fork())
					return 0;
				if (waitpid(-1, &status, 0) < 0) {
					printf("ERR!! wait: %m\n");
					return 0;
				}
			}
		}

		assert(ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, 0,0) == 0);
		assert(waitpid(-1, NULL, 0) == pid);

		assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, 0,
					PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK) == 0);

		do {
			ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, 0, 0);
			pid = waitpid(-1, NULL, 0);
		} while (pid > 0);

		return 1;
	}

It fails because ->real_parent sees its child in EXIT_DEAD state
while the tracer is going to change the state back to EXIT_ZOMBIE
in wait_task_zombie().

The offending commit is 823b018e which moved the EXIT_DEAD check,
but in fact we should not blame it. The original code was not
correct as well because it didn't take ptrace_reparented() into
account and because we can't really trust ->ptrace.

This patch adds the additional check to close this particular
race but it doesn't solve the whole problem. We simply can't
rely on ->ptrace in this case, it can be cleared if the tracer
is multithreaded by the exiting ->parent.

I think we should kill EXIT_DEAD altogether, we should always
remove the soon-to-be-reaped child from ->children or at least
we should never do the DEAD->ZOMBIE transition. But this is too
complex for 3.2.

Reported-and-tested-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Lukasz Michalik <lmi@ift.uni.wroc.pl>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 kernel/exit.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -1553,8 +1553,15 @@ static int wait_consider_task(struct wai
 	}
 
 	/* dead body doesn't have much to contribute */
-	if (p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)
+	if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)) {
+		/*
+		 * But do not ignore this task until the tracer does
+		 * wait_task_zombie()->do_notify_parent().
+		 */
+		if (likely(!ptrace) && unlikely(ptrace_reparented(p)))
+			wo->notask_error = 0;
 		return 0;
+	}
 
 	/* slay zombie? */
 	if (p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) {



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-05 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-03 22:30 [00/67] 3.0.16-stable review Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [01/67] ARM: OMAP: rx51: fix USB Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [02/67] ipip, sit: copy parms.name after register_netdevice Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [03/67] rtc: Expire alarms after the time is set Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:46   ` John Stultz
2012-01-03 22:47     ` Greg KH
2012-01-03 23:11       ` John Stultz
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [04/67] rtc: m41t80: Workaround broken alarm functionality Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [05/67] drm/i915: prevent division by zero when asking for chipset power Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [06/67] cfq-iosched: free cic_index if blkio_alloc_blkg_stats fails Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [07/67] cfq-iosched: fix cfq_cic_link() race confition Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [08/67] SCSI: zfcp: return early from slave_destroy if slave_alloc returned early Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [09/67] SCSI: mpt2sas: _scsih_smart_predicted_fault uses GFP_KERNEL in interrupt context Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [10/67] SCSI: fcoe: Fix preempt count leak in fcoe_filter_frames() Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [11/67] mac80211: fix another race in aggregation start Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [12/67] block: initialize request_queues numa node during Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [13/67] ssb: fix init regression with SoCs Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [14/67] MXC PWM: should active during DOZE/WAIT/DBG mode Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [15/67] Input: synaptics - fix touchpad not working after S2R on Vostro V13 Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [16/67] percpu: fix per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() handling of non-page-aligned addresses Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [17/67] binary_sysctl(): fix memory leak Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [18/67] oom: fix integer overflow of points in oom_badness Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [19/67] oprofile: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to writing to oprofilefs Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [20/67] NFSv4.1: Ensure that we handle _all_ SEQUENCE status bits Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [21/67] SELinux: Fix RCU deref check warning in sel_netport_insert() Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [22/67] nilfs2: unbreak compat ioctl Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [23/67] mmc: vub300: fix type of firmware_rom_wait_states module parameter Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [24/67] cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [25/67] mfd: Fix twl-core oops while calling twl_i2c_* for unbound driver Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [26/67] vfs: __read_cache_page should use gfp argument rather than GFP_KERNEL Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [27/67] media: s5p-fimc: Use correct fourcc for RGB565 colour format Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [28/67] ath9k: fix max phy rate at rate control init Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [29/67] iwlwifi: do not set the sequence control bit is not needed Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [30/67] iwlwifi: allow to switch to HT40 if not associated Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [31/67] memcg: keep root group unchanged if creation fails Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [32/67] VFS: Fix race between CPU hotplug and lglocks Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [33/67] ARM:imx:fix pwm period value Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [34/67] ARM: 7214/1: mmc: mmci: Fixup handling of MCI_STARTBITERR Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [35/67] ARM: 7220/1: mmc: mmci: Fixup error handling for dma Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [36/67] oprofile, arm/sh: Fix oprofile_arch_exit() linkage issue Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [37/67] futex: Fix uninterruptible loop due to gate_area Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [38/67] watchdog: hpwdt: Changes to handle NX secure bit in 32bit path Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [39/67] drm/radeon/kms: bail on BTC parts if MC ucode is missing Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [40/67] mm: hugetlb: fix non-atomic enqueue of huge page Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:29 ` [41/67] mpt2sas crashes on shutdown Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [42/67] sparc64: Fix MSIQ HV call ordering in pci_sun4v_msiq_build_irq() Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [43/67] sparc32: Be less strict in matching %lo part of relocation Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [44/67] sparc64: Patch sun4v code sequences properly on module load Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [45/67] sparc: Kill custom io_remap_pfn_range() Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [46/67] sparc32: Remove non-kernel code from memcpy implementation Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [47/67] sparc32: Remove uses of %g7 in " Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [48/67] sparc32: Correct the return value of memcpy Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [49/67] sparc64: Fix masking and shifting in VIS fpcmp emulation Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [50/67] sparc: Fix handling of orig_i0 wrt. debugging when restarting syscalls Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [51/67] net: bpf_jit: fix an off-one bug in x86_64 cond jump target Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [52/67] ppp: fix pptp double release_sock in pptp_bind() Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [53/67] llc: llc_cmsg_rcv was getting called after sk_eat_skb Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [54/67] mqprio: Avoid panic if no options are provided Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [55/67] net: have ipconfig not wait if no dev is available Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [56/67] sch_gred: should not use GFP_KERNEL while holding a spinlock Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [57/67] sctp: fix incorrect overflow check on autoclose Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [58/67] sctp: Do not account for sizeof(struct sk_buff) in estimated rwnd Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [59/67] ipv4: flush route cache after change accept_local Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [60/67] ipv4: reintroduce route cache garbage collector Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [61/67] ipv4: using prefetch requires including prefetch.h Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [62/67] iwlwifi: update SCD BC table for all SCD queues Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [63/67] mfd: Fix mismatch in twl4030 mutex lock-unlock Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [64/67] mfd: Copy the device pointer to the twl4030-madc structure Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [65/67] mfd: Check for twl4030-madc NULL pointer Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [66/67] mfd: Turn on the twl4030-madc MADC clock Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:30 ` [67/67] xen/swiotlb: Use page alignment for early buffer allocation Greg KH
2012-01-05 19:18 ` [00/67] 3.0.16-stable review Greg KH
2012-01-05 19:26   ` Greg KH
2012-01-05 22:46   ` Greg KH
2012-01-05 22:44     ` [40/73] mpt2sas: fix non-x86 crash on shutdown Greg KH
2012-01-05 22:44     ` [67/73] xfs: log the inode in ->write_inode calls for kupdate Greg KH
2012-01-05 22:44     ` [68/73] xfs: log all dirty inodes in xfs_fs_sync_fs Greg KH
2012-01-05 22:44     ` [69/73] drm/radeon/kms/atom: fix possible segfault in pm setup Greg KH
2012-01-05 22:44     ` [70/73] hung_task: fix false positive during vfork Greg KH
2012-01-05 22:44     ` [71/73] Revert "rtc: Disable the alarm in the hardware" Greg KH
2012-01-05 22:44     ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-01-05 22:44     ` [73/73] ath9k: Fix kernel panic in AR2427 in AP mode Greg KH

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