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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2011-07-21 20:00:43 +0200
committerOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2011-07-22 15:10:49 +0200
commiteac1b5e57d7abc836e78fd3fbcf77dbeed01edc9 (patch)
tree50d267e7a4edd645543abfeb33d12eb18d84d00e /mm/nommu.c
parent8a35241803eeb0e9fd3fe27835d6b2775c73b641 (diff)
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ptrace: do_wait(traced_leader_killed_by_mt_exec) can block forever
Test-case:

	void *tfunc(void *arg)
	{
		execvp("true", NULL);
		return NULL;
	}

	int main(void)
	{
		int pid;

		if (fork()) {
			pthread_t t;

			kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP);

			pthread_create(&t, NULL, tfunc, NULL);

			for (;;)
				pause();
		}

		pid = getppid();
		assert(ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, 0,0) == 0);

		while (wait(NULL) > 0)
			ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, 0,0);

		return 0;
	}

It is racy, exit_notify() does __wake_up_parent() too. But in the
likely case it triggers the problem: de_thread() does release_task()
and the old leader goes away without the notification, the tracer
sleeps in do_wait() without children/tracees.

Change de_thread() to do __wake_up_parent(traced_leader->parent).
Since it is already EXIT_DEAD we can do this without ptrace_unlink(),
EXIT_DEAD threads do not exist from do_wait's pov.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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