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>

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index b08367abf30e52062dcb0ce4058b06289198be41..d219541db06c7ad6e6f5a0991e30551ac50ad1e0 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -967,6 +967,14 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct *tsk)
 
                BUG_ON(leader->exit_state != EXIT_ZOMBIE);
                leader->exit_state = EXIT_DEAD;
+
+               /*
+                * We are going to release_task()->ptrace_unlink() silently,
+                * the tracer can sleep in do_wait(). EXIT_DEAD guarantees
+                * the tracer wont't block again waiting for this thread.
+                */
+               if (unlikely(leader->ptrace))
+                       __wake_up_parent(leader, leader->parent);
                write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 
                release_task(leader);