From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932454AbdBOX2O (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:28:14 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:54001 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932421AbdBOX2M (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:28:12 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Andrey Ryabinin" , "Alexander Viro" , "Oleg Nesterov" , "Pavel Machek" , "Tejun Heo" , "Michal Hocko" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:41:34 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 083/126] coredump: fix unfreezable coredumping task In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:6f00:88c8:c921:d332 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.85-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Andrey Ryabinin commit 70d78fe7c8b640b5acfad56ad341985b3810998a upstream. It could be not possible to freeze coredumping task when it waits for 'core_state->startup' completion, because threads are frozen in get_signal() before they got a chance to complete 'core_state->startup'. Inability to freeze a task during suspend will cause suspend to fail. Also CRIU uses cgroup freezer during dump operation. So with an unfreezable task the CRIU dump will fail because it waits for a transition from 'FREEZING' to 'FROZEN' state which will never happen. Use freezer_do_not_count() to tell freezer to ignore coredumping task while it waits for core_state->startup completion. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475225434-3753-1-git-send-email-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin Acked-by: Pavel Machek Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename, context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -1974,8 +1975,11 @@ static int coredump_wait(int exit_code, complete(vfork_done); } - if (core_waiters) + if (core_waiters > 0) { + freezer_do_not_count(); wait_for_completion(&core_state->startup); + freezer_count(); + } fail: return core_waiters; }