linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 44/74] exit: panic before exit

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Date:   Tue,  7 Jan 2020 21:55:09 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, chenqiwu <chenqiwu@...omi.com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 44/74] exit: panic before exit_mm() on global init exit

From: chenqiwu <chenqiwu@...omi.com>

commit 43cf75d96409a20ef06b756877a2e72b10a026fc upstream.

Currently, when global init and all threads in its thread-group have exited
we panic via:
do_exit()
-> exit_notify()
   -> forget_original_parent()
      -> find_child_reaper()
This makes it hard to extract a useable coredump for global init from a
kernel crashdump because by the time we panic exit_mm() will have already
released global init's mm.
This patch moves the panic futher up before exit_mm() is called. As was the
case previously, we only panic when global init and all its threads in the
thread-group have exited.

Signed-off-by: chenqiwu <chenqiwu@...omi.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
[christian.brauner@...ntu.com: fix typo, rewrite commit message]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1576736993-10121-1-git-send-email-qiwuchen55@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/exit.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -577,10 +577,6 @@ static struct task_struct *find_child_re
 	}
 
 	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
-	if (unlikely(pid_ns == &init_pid_ns)) {
-		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);
@@ -823,6 +819,14 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code)
 	acct_update_integrals(tsk);
 	group_dead = atomic_dec_and_test(&tsk->signal->live);
 	if (group_dead) {
+		/*
+		 * If the last thread of global init has exited, panic
+		 * immediately to get a useable coredump.
+		 */
+		if (unlikely(is_global_init(tsk)))
+			panic("Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x%08x\n",
+				tsk->signal->group_exit_code ?: (int)code);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS
 		hrtimer_cancel(&tsk->signal->real_timer);
 		exit_itimers(tsk->signal);