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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2009-09-23 15:56:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-24 07:20:59 -0700
commita7f0765edfd53aed09cb7b0e15863688b39447de (patch)
treec89adfe418f9988ad4044e0f22827458bdf6b155 /kernel
parent1dd3a27326d307952f8ad2499478c84dc7311517 (diff)
downloadlinux-a7f0765edfd53aed09cb7b0e15863688b39447de.tar.gz
ptrace: __ptrace_detach: do __wake_up_parent() if we reap the tracee
The bug is old, it wasn't cause by recent changes.

Test case:

	static void *tfunc(void *arg)
	{
		int pid = (long)arg;

		assert(ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, NULL, NULL) == 0);
		kill(pid, SIGKILL);

		sleep(1);
		return NULL;
	}

	int main(void)
	{
		pthread_t th;
		long pid = fork();

		if (!pid)
			pause();

		signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN);
		assert(pthread_create(&th, NULL, tfunc, (void*)pid) == 0);

		int r = waitpid(-1, NULL, __WNOTHREAD);
		printf("waitpid: %d %m\n", r);

		return 0;
	}

Before the patch this program hangs, after this patch waitpid() correctly
fails with errno == -ECHILD.

The problem is, __ptrace_detach() reaps the EXIT_ZOMBIE tracee if its
->real_parent is our sub-thread and we ignore SIGCHLD.  But in this case
we should wake up other threads which can sleep in do_wait().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c5
-rw-r--r--kernel/ptrace.c11
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c9
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 60d6fdcc9265..782b2e1f7ca2 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -1575,6 +1575,11 @@ static int ptrace_do_wait(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+void __wake_up_parent(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *parent)
+{
+	wake_up_interruptible_sync(&parent->signal->wait_chldexit);
+}
+
 static long do_wait(struct wait_opts *wo)
 {
 	DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 307c285af59e..23bd09cd042e 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -266,9 +266,10 @@ static int ignoring_children(struct sighand_struct *sigh)
  * or self-reaping.  Do notification now if it would have happened earlier.
  * If it should reap itself, return true.
  *
- * If it's our own child, there is no notification to do.
- * But if our normal children self-reap, then this child
- * was prevented by ptrace and we must reap it now.
+ * If it's our own child, there is no notification to do. But if our normal
+ * children self-reap, then this child was prevented by ptrace and we must
+ * reap it now, in that case we must also wake up sub-threads sleeping in
+ * do_wait().
  */
 static bool __ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *tracer, struct task_struct *p)
 {
@@ -278,8 +279,10 @@ static bool __ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *tracer, struct task_struct *p)
 		if (!task_detached(p) && thread_group_empty(p)) {
 			if (!same_thread_group(p->real_parent, tracer))
 				do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal);
-			else if (ignoring_children(tracer->sighand))
+			else if (ignoring_children(tracer->sighand)) {
+				__wake_up_parent(p, tracer);
 				p->exit_signal = -1;
+			}
 		}
 		if (task_detached(p)) {
 			/* Mark it as in the process of being reaped. */
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 64c5deeaca5d..534ea81cde47 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1383,15 +1383,6 @@ ret:
 }
 
 /*
- * Wake up any threads in the parent blocked in wait* syscalls.
- */
-static inline void __wake_up_parent(struct task_struct *p,
-				    struct task_struct *parent)
-{
-	wake_up_interruptible_sync(&parent->signal->wait_chldexit);
-}
-
-/*
  * Let a parent know about the death of a child.
  * For a stopped/continued status change, use do_notify_parent_cldstop instead.
  *