3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com
commit cf43a757fd49442bc38f76088b70c2299eed2c2f upstream.
In the middle of do_exit() there is there is a call "ptrace_event(PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT, code);" That call places the process in TACKED_TRACED aka "(TASK_WAKEKILL | __TASK_TRACED)" and waits for for the debugger to release the task or SIGKILL to be delivered.
Skipping past dequeue_signal when we know a fatal signal has already been delivered resulted in SIGKILL remaining pending and TIF_SIGPENDING remaining set. This in turn caused the scheduler to not sleep in PTACE_EVENT_EXIT as it figured a fatal signal was pending. This also caused ptrace_freeze_traced in ptrace_check_attach to fail because it left a per thread SIGKILL pending which is what fatal_signal_pending tests for.
This difference in signal state caused strace to report strace: Exit of unknown pid NNNNN ignored
Therefore update the signal handling state like dequeue_signal would when removing a per thread SIGKILL, by removing SIGKILL from the per thread signal mask and clearing TIF_SIGPENDING.
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com Reported-by: Ivan Delalande colona@arista.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 35634ffa1751 ("signal: Always notice exiting tasks") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- kernel/signal.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -2284,9 +2284,12 @@ relock: }
/* Has this task already been marked for death? */ - ksig->info.si_signo = signr = SIGKILL; - if (signal_group_exit(signal)) + if (signal_group_exit(signal)) { + ksig->info.si_signo = signr = SIGKILL; + sigdelset(¤t->pending.signal, SIGKILL); + recalc_sigpending(); goto fatal; + }
for (;;) { struct k_sigaction *ka;