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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2013-03-02 15:25:35 +1100 |
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committer | Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> | 2013-03-07 14:26:46 +1100 |
commit | 0f5d010197f153719abd73236e214b2db04fe522 (patch) | |
tree | 6b23b5f3eac24bbb120cd7453121ec788b4a7622 /fs | |
parent | 133153fc11200c6673c66a11bbfbee2680ab7581 (diff) |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/coredump.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c index c6479658d487..8e2ac7995b6b 100644 --- a/fs/coredump.c +++ b/fs/coredump.c @@ -280,8 +280,8 @@ static int zap_process(struct task_struct *start, int exit_code) return nr; } -static inline int zap_threads(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, - struct core_state *core_state, int exit_code) +static int zap_threads(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, + struct core_state *core_state, int exit_code) { struct task_struct *g, *p; unsigned long flags; @@ -291,6 +291,9 @@ static inline int zap_threads(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, if (!signal_group_exit(tsk->signal)) { mm->core_state = core_state; nr = zap_process(tsk, exit_code); + /* ignore all signals except SIGKILL, see prepare_signal() */ + tsk->signal->flags |= SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP; + clear_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_SIGPENDING); } spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); if (unlikely(nr < 0)) @@ -514,12 +517,6 @@ void do_coredump(siginfo_t *siginfo) old_cred = override_creds(cred); - /* - * Clear any false indication of pending signals that might - * be seen by the filesystem code called to write the core file. - */ - clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING); - ispipe = format_corename(&cn, &cprm); if (ispipe) { |