netdev - Re: bpfilter causes a leftover kernel process

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Date:   Tue, 28 Aug 2018 22:35:38 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Olivier Brunel <jjk@...cky.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, daniel@...earbox.net
Subject: Re: bpfilter causes a leftover kernel process

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 01:23:38PM +0200, Olivier Brunel wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 20:35:02 -0700
> Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm also running Arch Linux in my VM, but I'm not able to reproduce
> > umount issue. I'm guessing it's somehow related to non-static build
> > and libc.so being busy with old systemd.
> 
> Oh, I mentioned it in a previous draft of my original mail but it
> seems it got lost in rewrites, I don't actually use systemd. Not that
> it should matter here though.
> 
> 
> > Typical shutdown should have done:
> > [   73.498022] shutdown[1]: Sending SIGTERM to remaining processes...
> > [   73.505501] shutdown[1]: Sending SIGKILL to remaining processes...
> > [   73.512783] shutdown[1]: Unmounting file systems.
> > And at the time of umount / no processes are alive other than systemd.
> 
> Yeah, I have a similar thing happening on shutdown, except that we're
> talking about a kernel thread here, so that process is ignored by the
> mentionned killing spree as a result, thus leaving that process running.

it's not a kernel thread and sounds like there is a bug in your pid 1
that is worth fixing.