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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2015-01-08 14:32:12 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-01-16 06:59:57 -0800
commitd73437ade6b00e559b73f805e272446e2afdd3b3 (patch)
tree50d0a377710554abcd6ff66bb6c94ddfc66208bc /kernel
parent0324896e2ec7602224b9dcd981b19b1827498cd9 (diff)
exit: fix race between wait_consider_task() and wait_task_zombie()
commit 3245d6acab981a2388ffb877c7ecc97e763c59d4 upstream. wait_consider_task() checks EXIT_ZOMBIE after EXIT_DEAD/EXIT_TRACE and both checks can fail if we race with EXIT_ZOMBIE -> EXIT_DEAD/EXIT_TRACE change in between, gcc needs to reload p->exit_state after security_task_wait(). In this case ->notask_error will be wrongly cleared and do_wait() can hang forever if it was the last eligible child. Many thanks to Arne who carefully investigated the problem. Note: this bug is very old but it was pure theoretical until commit b3ab03160dfa ("wait: completely ignore the EXIT_DEAD tasks"). Before this commit "-O2" was probably enough to guarantee that compiler won't read ->exit_state twice. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reported-by: Arne Goedeke <el@laramies.com> Tested-by: Arne Goedeke <el@laramies.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 5d30019ff953..2116aace6c85 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -1302,9 +1302,15 @@ static int wait_task_continued(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
static int wait_consider_task(struct wait_opts *wo, int ptrace,
struct task_struct *p)
{
+ /*
+ * We can race with wait_task_zombie() from another thread.
+ * Ensure that EXIT_ZOMBIE -> EXIT_DEAD/EXIT_TRACE transition
+ * can't confuse the checks below.
+ */
+ int exit_state = ACCESS_ONCE(p->exit_state);
int ret;
- if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD))
+ if (unlikely(exit_state == EXIT_DEAD))
return 0;
ret = eligible_child(wo, p);
@@ -1325,7 +1331,7 @@ static int wait_consider_task(struct wait_opts *wo, int ptrace,
return 0;
}
- if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_TRACE)) {
+ if (unlikely(exit_state == EXIT_TRACE)) {
/*
* ptrace == 0 means we are the natural parent. In this case
* we should clear notask_error, debugger will notify us.
@@ -1352,7 +1358,7 @@ static int wait_consider_task(struct wait_opts *wo, int ptrace,
}
/* slay zombie? */
- if (p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) {
+ if (exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) {
/* we don't reap group leaders with subthreads */
if (!delay_group_leader(p)) {
/*