linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] pidns: Guarantee that the pidns init will be the last pidns process reaped.

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2012 21:34:50 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@...labs.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] pidns: Guarantee that the pidns init will be the
	last pidns process reaped.

On 05/16, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Hmm. I don't think the patch is 100% correct. Afaics, this needs more
> delay_pidns_leader() checks.

Anyway, if we rely on ->children, can't we make a simpler fix?

Something like below. It can be simplified even more, just to explain
the idea. Perhaps we don't even need the new PF_ flag and we can
re-use ->wait_chldexit.

Oleg.

--- x/kernel/pid_namespace.c
+++ x/kernel/pid_namespace.c
@@ -184,6 +184,22 @@ void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_nam
 		rc = sys_wait4(-1, NULL, __WALL, NULL);
 	} while (rc != -ECHILD);
 
+	current->flags |= PF_DEAD_INIT;
+	for (;;) {
+		bool need_wait;
+
+		__set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+		read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+		need_wait = !list_empty(current->children);
+		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+
+		if (!need_wait)
+			break;
+		schedule();
+	}
+	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
+	current->flags &= ~PF_DEAD_INIT;
+
 	if (pid_ns->reboot)
 		current->signal->group_exit_code = pid_ns->reboot;
 
--- x/kernel/exit.c
+++ x/kernel/exit.c
@@ -71,6 +71,11 @@ static void __unhash_process(struct task
 
 		list_del_rcu(&p->tasks);
 		list_del_init(&p->sibling);
+
+		if (unlikely(p->real_parent->flags & PF_DEAD_INIT)
+			if (list_empty(&p->real_parent->children))
+				wake_up_process(p->real_parent);
+
 		__this_cpu_dec(process_counts);
 	}
 	list_del_rcu(&p->thread_group);

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