linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] kernel: release ptraced tasks before zap_pid_ns

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Date:   Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:52:00 -0800
From:   Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] kernel: release ptraced tasks before zap_pid_ns_processes

Currently, exit_ptrace() adds all ptraced tasks in a dead list, than
zap_pid_ns_processes() waits all tasks in a current pidns, and only
then tasks from the dead list are released.

zap_pid_ns_processes() can stuck on waiting tasks from the dead list. In
this case, we will have one unkillable process with one or more dead
children.

Thanks to Oleg for the advice to release tasks in find_child_reaper().

Fixes: 7c8bd2322c7f ("exit: ptrace: shift "reap dead" code from exit_ptrace() to forget_original_parent()")

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>
---

v2: Oleg showed that ptraced tasks can be released in
find_child_reaper(). This allows to avoid additional
write_lock/unlock(tasklist), and another list_for_each_entry_safe(dead)
loop is called only if it is actually needed.

 kernel/exit.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 2d14979577ee..5df787a497f5 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -558,12 +558,14 @@ static struct task_struct *find_alive_thread(struct task_struct *p)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-static struct task_struct *find_child_reaper(struct task_struct *father)
+static struct task_struct *find_child_reaper(struct task_struct *father,
+						struct list_head *dead)
 	__releases(&tasklist_lock)
 	__acquires(&tasklist_lock)
 {
 	struct pid_namespace *pid_ns = task_active_pid_ns(father);
 	struct task_struct *reaper = pid_ns->child_reaper;
+	struct task_struct *p, *n;
 
 	if (likely(reaper != father))
 		return reaper;
@@ -579,6 +581,12 @@ static struct task_struct *find_child_reaper(struct task_struct *father)
 		panic("Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x%08x\n",
 			father->signal->group_exit_code ?: father->exit_code);
 	}
+
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, dead, ptrace_entry) {
+		list_del_init(&p->ptrace_entry);
+		release_task(p);
+	}
+
 	zap_pid_ns_processes(pid_ns);
 	write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 
@@ -668,7 +676,7 @@ static void forget_original_parent(struct task_struct *father,
 		exit_ptrace(father, dead);
 
 	/* Can drop and reacquire tasklist_lock */
-	reaper = find_child_reaper(father);
+	reaper = find_child_reaper(father, dead);
 	if (list_empty(&father->children))
 		return;
 
-- 
2.17.2