linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] coredump: fix unfreezable coredumping task

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Date:   Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:47:41 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coredump: fix unfreezable coredumping task

On 09/30, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>
> @@ -423,7 +424,9 @@ static int coredump_wait(int exit_code, struct core_state *core_state)
>  	if (core_waiters > 0) {
>  		struct core_thread *ptr;
>  
> +		freezer_do_not_count();
>  		wait_for_completion(&core_state->startup);
> +		freezer_count();

Agreed... we could probably even do

	--- x/fs/coredump.c
	+++ x/fs/coredump.c
	@@ -423,7 +423,13 @@ static int coredump_wait(int exit_code, 
		if (core_waiters > 0) {
			struct core_thread *ptr;
	 
	-		wait_for_completion(&core_state->startup);
	+		if (wait_for_completion_interruptible(&core_state->startup)) {
	+			/* see the comment in dump_interrupted() */
	+			down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
	+			coredump_finish(mm, false);
	+			up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
	+			return -EINTR;
	+		}
			/*
			 * Wait for all the threads to become inactive, so that
			 * all the thread context (extended register state, like

but this change looks fine to me too.

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>