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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2009-04-02 16:58:17 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-04-02 19:04:59 -0700 |
commit | 7f5d3652d469cdf9eb2365dfea7ce3fb9e1409cc (patch) | |
tree | 590f845665e166694ba0f9ba0e6d2267e15d8aae /kernel | |
parent | b1442b055c154699a6a2c436f3352f71b6beede3 (diff) | |
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reparent_thread: fix a zombie leak if /sbin/init ignores SIGCHLD
If /sbin/init ignores SIGCHLD and we re-parent a zombie, it is leaked.
reparent_thread() does do_notify_parent() which sets ->exit_signal = -1 in
this case. This means that nobody except us can reap it, the detached
task is not visible to do_wait().
Change reparent_thread() to return a boolean (like __pthread_detach) to
indicate that the thread is dead and must be released. Also change
forget_original_parent() to add the child to ptrace_dead list in this
case.
The naming becomes insane, the next patch does the cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 5be0a406faeb..3e09b7cb3b20 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -810,8 +810,11 @@ static void ptrace_exit_finish(struct task_struct *parent, } } -static void reparent_thread(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *father) +/* Returns nonzero if the child should be released. */ +static int reparent_thread(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *father) { + int dead; + if (p->pdeath_signal) /* We already hold the tasklist_lock here. */ group_send_sig_info(p->pdeath_signal, SEND_SIG_NOINFO, p); @@ -819,12 +822,12 @@ static void reparent_thread(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *father) list_move_tail(&p->sibling, &p->real_parent->children); if (task_detached(p)) - return; + return 0; /* If this is a threaded reparent there is no need to * notify anyone anything has happened. */ if (same_thread_group(p->real_parent, father)) - return; + return 0; /* We don't want people slaying init. */ p->exit_signal = SIGCHLD; @@ -832,11 +835,19 @@ static void reparent_thread(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *father) /* If we'd notified the old parent about this child's death, * also notify the new parent. */ + dead = 0; if (!p->ptrace && - p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE && thread_group_empty(p)) + p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE && thread_group_empty(p)) { do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal); + if (task_detached(p)) { + p->exit_state = EXIT_DEAD; + dead = 1; + } + } kill_orphaned_pgrp(p, father); + + return dead; } /* @@ -896,7 +907,8 @@ static void forget_original_parent(struct task_struct *father) BUG_ON(p->ptrace); p->parent = p->real_parent; } - reparent_thread(p, father); + if (reparent_thread(p, father)) + list_add(&p->ptrace_entry, &ptrace_dead);; } write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); |