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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2013-04-30 15:28:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-04-30 17:04:06 -0700 |
| commit | 403bad72b67d8b3f5a0240af5023adfa48132a65 (patch) | |
| tree | d240a287cf7e64824dc6441f397b0290aa79738b /kernel/signal.c | |
| parent | 66e5b7e1948cdbdca2b0cc6ddc6d69ee84583fb4 (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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/signal.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/signal.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 27ece019bd0..cede58910f9 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -854,12 +854,14 @@ static void ptrace_trap_notify(struct task_struct *t) * Returns true if the signal should be actually delivered, otherwise * it should be dropped. */ -static int prepare_signal(int sig, struct task_struct *p, bool force) +static bool prepare_signal(int sig, struct task_struct *p, bool force) { struct signal_struct *signal = p->signal; struct task_struct *t; - if (unlikely(signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT)) { + if (signal->flags & (SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT | SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP)) { + if (signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP) + return sig == SIGKILL; /* * The process is in the middle of dying, nothing to do. */ |