wait: introduce EXIT_TRACE to avoid the racy EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE transition

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.  This was fixed by
the previous commit, but it was the temporary hack.

1. Add the new exit_state, EXIT_TRACE. It means that the task is the
   traced zombie, debugger is going to detach and notify its natural
   parent.

   This new state is actually EXIT_ZOMBIE | EXIT_DEAD. This way we
   can avoid the changes in proc/kgdb code, get_task_state() still
   reports "X (dead)" in this case.

   Note: with or without this change userspace can see Z -> X -> Z
   transition. Not really bad, but probably makes sense to fix.

2. Change wait_task_zombie() to use EXIT_TRACE instead of EXIT_DEAD
   if we need to notify the ->real_parent.

3. Revert the previous hack in reparent_leader(), now that EXIT_DEAD
   is always the final state we can safely ignore such a task.

4. Change wait_consider_task() to check EXIT_TRACE separately and kill
   the racy and no longer needed ptrace_reparented() case.

   If ptrace == T an EXIT_TRACE thread should be simply ignored, the
   owner of this state is going to ptrace_unlink() this task. We can
   pretend that it was already removed from ->ptraced list.

   Otherwise we should skip this thread too but clear ->notask_error,
   we must be the natural parent and debugger is going to untrace and
   notify us. IOW, this doesn't differ from "EXIT_ZOMBIE && p->ptrace"
   even if the task was already untraced.

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>

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index f8497059f88cd635f59c552c50f9ecedc8ba5cf6..7781de5e5e7bd39ff961d6aeea587d9ff69b53a8 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ print_cfs_rq(struct seq_file *m, int cpu, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq);
 /* in tsk->exit_state */
 #define EXIT_ZOMBIE            16
 #define EXIT_DEAD              32
+#define EXIT_TRACE             (EXIT_ZOMBIE | EXIT_DEAD)
 /* in tsk->state again */
 #define TASK_DEAD              64
 #define TASK_WAKEKILL          128

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index e354cbb13a9b77ae715f0f1e2c3658430e2e555a..022a0ff1731897b7befb00dee28f7ee2971dc1a4 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -560,6 +560,9 @@ static void reparent_leader(struct task_struct *father, struct task_struct *p,
                                struct list_head *dead)
 {
        list_move_tail(&p->sibling, &p->real_parent->children);
+
+       if (p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)
+               return;
        /*
         * If this is a threaded reparent there is no need to
         * notify anyone anything has happened.
@@ -567,19 +570,9 @@ static void reparent_leader(struct task_struct *father, struct task_struct *p,
        if (same_thread_group(p->real_parent, father))
                return;
 
-       /*
-        * We don't want people slaying init.
-        *
-        * Note: we do this even if it is EXIT_DEAD, wait_task_zombie()
-        * can change ->exit_state to EXIT_ZOMBIE. If this is the final
-        * state, do_notify_parent() was already called and ->exit_signal
-        * doesn't matter.
-        */
+       /* We don't want people slaying init. */
        p->exit_signal = SIGCHLD;
 
-       if (p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)
-               return;
-
        /* If it has exited notify the new parent about this child's death. */
        if (!p->ptrace &&
            p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE && thread_group_empty(p)) {
@@ -1043,17 +1036,13 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
                return wait_noreap_copyout(wo, p, pid, uid, why, status);
        }
 
+       traced = ptrace_reparented(p);
        /*
-        * Try to move the task's state to DEAD
-        * only one thread is allowed to do this:
+        * Move the task's state to DEAD/TRACE, only one thread can do this.
         */
-       state = xchg(&p->exit_state, EXIT_DEAD);
-       if (state != EXIT_ZOMBIE) {
-               BUG_ON(state != EXIT_DEAD);
+       state = traced ? EXIT_TRACE : EXIT_DEAD;
+       if (cmpxchg(&p->exit_state, EXIT_ZOMBIE, state) != EXIT_ZOMBIE)
                return 0;
-       }
-
-       traced = ptrace_reparented(p);
        /*
         * It can be ptraced but not reparented, check
         * thread_group_leader() to filter out sub-threads.
@@ -1114,7 +1103,7 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
 
        /*
         * Now we are sure this task is interesting, and no other
-        * thread can reap it because we set its state to EXIT_DEAD.
+        * thread can reap it because we its state == DEAD/TRACE.
         */
        read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 
@@ -1159,14 +1148,14 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
                 * If this is not a sub-thread, notify the parent.
                 * If parent wants a zombie, don't release it now.
                 */
+               state = EXIT_DEAD;
                if (thread_group_leader(p) &&
-                   !do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal)) {
-                       p->exit_state = EXIT_ZOMBIE;
-                       p = NULL;
-               }
+                   !do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal))
+                       state = EXIT_ZOMBIE;
+               p->exit_state = state;
                write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
        }
-       if (p != NULL)
+       if (state == EXIT_DEAD)
                release_task(p);
 
        return retval;
@@ -1362,12 +1351,15 @@ static int wait_consider_task(struct wait_opts *wo, int ptrace,
        }
 
        /* dead body doesn't have much to contribute */
-       if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)) {
+       if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD))
+               return 0;
+
+       if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_TRACE)) {
                /*
-                * But do not ignore this task until the tracer does
-                * wait_task_zombie()->do_notify_parent().
+                * ptrace == 0 means we are the natural parent. In this case
+                * we should clear notask_error, debugger will notify us.
                 */
-               if (likely(!ptrace) && unlikely(ptrace_reparented(p)))
+               if (likely(!ptrace))
                        wo->notask_error = 0;
                return 0;
        }