linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] exec: don't force_sigsegv processes with a pending fatal signal

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Message-ID: <20190209001638.GA14025@visor>
Date:   Fri, 8 Feb 2019 16:16:38 -0800
From:   Ivan Delalande <colona@...sta.com>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] exec: don't force_sigsegv processes with a pending
 fatal signal

Hi Eric,

On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 11:13:59PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I just noticed this.  From  my patch queue that I intend to send to
> Linus tomorrow. I think this change fixes your issue of getting
> the SIGSEGV instead of the already pending fatal signal.
> 
> So I think this fixes your issue without any other code changes.
> Ivan can you verify that the patch below is enough?

I was having issues with just this patch applied on top of v5.0-rc5 or
the latest master: defunct processes accumulating, exiting processes
that would hang forever, and some kernel functions eating all the CPU
(setup_sigcontext, common_interrupt, __clear_user, do_signal…).

But using your user-namespace.git/for-linus worked great and I've been
running my reproducer for a few hours now without issue. I'll probably
keep it running over the week-end as it has been unreliable at times,
but it looks promising so far.

A difference I've noticed with your tree (unrelated to my issue here but
that you may want to look at) is when I run my reproducer under
strace -f, I'm now getting quite a lot of "Exit of unknown pid 12345
ignored" warnings from strace, which I've never seen with mainline.
My reproducer simply fork-exec tail processes in a loop, and tries to
sigkill them in the parent with a variable delay.

Thank you,

> diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
> index 9ca8e5278c8e..5424cb0006bc 100644
> --- a/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -2393,6 +2393,11 @@ bool get_signal(struct ksignal *ksig)
>                 goto relock;
>         }
>  
> +       /* Has this task already been marked for death? */
> +       ksig->info.si_signo = signr = SIGKILL;
> +       if (signal_group_exit(signal))
> +               goto fatal;
> +
>         for (;;) {
>                 struct k_sigaction *ka;
>  
> @@ -2488,6 +2493,7 @@ bool get_signal(struct ksignal *ksig)
>                         continue;
>                 }
>  
> +       fatal:
>                 spin_unlock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
>  
>    

-- 
Ivan Delalande
Arista Networks