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Suren Baghdasaryan
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There is a race between reading task->exit_state in pidfd_poll and
writing it after do_notify_parent calls do_notify_pidfd. Expected
sequence of events is:
CPU 0 CPU 1
------------------------------------------------
exit_notify
do_notify_parent
do_notify_pidfd
tsk->exit_state = EXIT_DEAD
pidfd_poll
if (tsk->exit_state)
However nothing prevents the following sequence:
CPU 0 CPU 1
------------------------------------------------
exit_notify
do_notify_parent
do_notify_pidfd
pidfd_poll
if (tsk->exit_state)
tsk->exit_state = EXIT_DEAD
This causes a polling task to wait forever, since poll blocks because
exit_state is 0 and the waiting task is not notified again. A stress
test continuously doing pidfd poll and process exits uncovered this bug.
To fix it, we make sure that the task's exit_state is always set before
calling do_notify_pidfd.
Fixes: b53b0b9d9a ("pidfd: add polling support")
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190717172100.261204-1-joel@joelfernandes.org
[christian@brauner.io: adapt commit message and drop unneeded changes from wait_task_zombie]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.