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coredump: ensure that SIGKILL always kills the dumping thread
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:08:30 +0000 (15:08 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:34:28 +0000 (16:34 +1100)
commit8d7f8186eac3fafc83c3bda9c3f4fe25b18021f0
treeccd0ac7d3dcf1794571e38bec5316c62f680d1e6
parent9d6395d85475c85c1e631f5a4985bf344cb6c77f
coredump: ensure that SIGKILL always kills the dumping thread

prepare_signal() blesses SIGKILL sent to the dumping process but this
signal can be "lost" anyway.  The problems is, complete_signal() sees
SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT and skips the "kill them all" logic.  And even if the
dumping process is single-threaded (so the target is always "correct"),
the group-wide SIGKILL is not recorded in task->pending and thus
__fatal_signal_pending() won't be true.  A multi-threaded case has even
more problems.

And even ignoring all technical details, SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT doesn't look
right to me.  This coredumping process is not exiting yet, it can do a lot
of work dumping the core.

With this patch the dumping process doesn't have SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT, we set
signal->group_exit_task instead.  This makes signal_group_exit() true and
thus this should equally close the races with exit/exec/stop but allows to
kill the dumping thread reliably.

Notes:
- It is not clear what should we do with ->group_exit_code
  if the dumper was killed, see the next change.

- we need more (hopefully straightforward) changes to ensure
  that SIGKILL actually interrupts the coredump. Basically we
  need to check __fatal_signal_pending() in dump_write() and
  dump_seek().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/coredump.c