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coredump: only SIGKILL should interrupt the coredumping task
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:08:29 +0000 (15:08 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:34:28 +0000 (16:34 +1100)
commit9d6395d85475c85c1e631f5a4985bf344cb6c77f
tree92bda3827e86a6c4120d65c6fddc9170c268bf87
parent210dcded16b500e4f0a0dfa851a0c86ba51e2a06
coredump: only SIGKILL should interrupt the coredumping task

There are 2 well known and ancient problems with coredump/signals, and a
lot of related bug reports:

- do_coredump() clears TIF_SIGPENDING but of course this can't help
  if, say, SIGCHLD comes after that.

  In this case the coredump can fail unexpectedly. See for example
  wait_for_dump_helper()->signal_pending() check but there are other
  reasons.

- At the same time, dumping a huge core on the slow media can take a
  lot of time/resources and there is no way to kill the coredumping
  task reliably. In particular this is not oom_kill-friendly.

This patch tries to fix the 1st problem, and makes the preparation for the
next changes.

We add the new SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP flag set by zap_threads() to indicate
that this process dumps the core.  prepare_signal() checks this flag and
nacks any signal except SIGKILL.

Note that this check tries to be conservative, in the long term we should
probably treat the SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT case equally but this needs more
discussion.  See marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120508897917439

Notes:
- recalc_sigpending() doesn't check SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP.
  The patch assumes that dump_write/etc paths should never
  call it, but we can change it as well.

- There is another source of TIF_SIGPENDING, freezer. This
  will be addressed separately.

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
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/signal.c