job control: Fix ptracer wait(2) hang and explain notask_error clearing
wait(2) and friends allow access to stopped/continued states through
zombies, which is required as the states are process-wide and should
be accessible whether the leader task is alive or undead.
wait_consider_task() implements this by always clearing notask_error
and going through wait_task_stopped/continued() for unreaped zombies.
However, while ptraced, the stopped state is per-task and as such if
the ptracee became a zombie, there's no further stopped event to
listen to and wait(2) and friends should return -ECHILD on the tracee.
Fix it by clearing notask_error only if WCONTINUED | WEXITED is set
for ptraced zombies. While at it, document why clearing notask_error
is safe for each case.
Test case follows.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
static void *nooper(void *arg)
{
pause();
return NULL;
}
int main(void)
{
const struct timespec ts1s = { .tv_sec = 1 };
pid_t tracee, tracer;
siginfo_t si;
tracee = fork();
if (tracee == 0) {
pthread_t thr;
pthread_create(&thr, NULL, nooper, NULL);
nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL);
printf("tracee exiting\n");
pthread_exit(NULL); /* let subthread run */
}
tracer = fork();
if (tracer == 0) {
ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, tracee, NULL, NULL);
while (1) {
if (waitid(P_PID, tracee, &si, WSTOPPED) < 0) {
perror("waitid");
break;
}
ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL,
(void *)(long)si.si_status);
}
return 0;
}
waitid(P_PID, tracer, &si, WEXITED);
kill(tracee, SIGKILL);
return 0;
}
Before the patch, after the tracee becomes a zombie, the tracer's
waitid(WSTOPPED) never returns and the program doesn't terminate.
tracee exiting
^C
After the patch, tracee exiting triggers waitid() to fail.
tracee exiting
waitid: No child processes
-v2: Oleg pointed out that exited in addition to continued can happen
for ptraced dead group leader. Clear notask_error for ptraced
child on WEXITED too.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index b4a935c..84d13d6 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -1550,17 +1550,41 @@
return 0;
}
- /*
- * We don't reap group leaders with subthreads.
- */
- if (p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE && !delay_group_leader(p))
- return wait_task_zombie(wo, p);
+ /* slay zombie? */
+ if (p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) {
+ /* we don't reap group leaders with subthreads */
+ if (!delay_group_leader(p))
+ return wait_task_zombie(wo, p);
- /*
- * It's stopped or running now, so it might
- * later continue, exit, or stop again.
- */
- wo->notask_error = 0;
+ /*
+ * Allow access to stopped/continued state via zombie by
+ * falling through. Clearing of notask_error is complex.
+ *
+ * When !@ptrace:
+ *
+ * If WEXITED is set, notask_error should naturally be
+ * cleared. If not, subset of WSTOPPED|WCONTINUED is set,
+ * so, if there are live subthreads, there are events to
+ * wait for. If all subthreads are dead, it's still safe
+ * to clear - this function will be called again in finite
+ * amount time once all the subthreads are released and
+ * will then return without clearing.
+ *
+ * When @ptrace:
+ *
+ * Stopped state is per-task and thus can't change once the
+ * target task dies. Only continued and exited can happen.
+ * Clear notask_error if WCONTINUED | WEXITED.
+ */
+ if (likely(!ptrace) || (wo->wo_flags & (WCONTINUED | WEXITED)))
+ wo->notask_error = 0;
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * @p is alive and it's gonna stop, continue or exit, so
+ * there always is something to wait for.
+ */
+ wo->notask_error = 0;
+ }
if (task_stopped_code(p, ptrace))
return wait_task_stopped(wo, ptrace, p);