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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2012-03-05 14:59:13 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-03-05 15:49:42 -0800 |
commit | d68b46fe16ad59b3a5f51ec73daaa5dc06753798 (patch) | |
tree | 4bae9ddc5f5bed853d1f0936d05c30e4f7ca924d /kernel | |
parent | c415c3b47ea2754659d915cca387a20999044163 (diff) | |
download | lwn-d68b46fe16ad59b3a5f51ec73daaa5dc06753798.tar.gz lwn-d68b46fe16ad59b3a5f51ec73daaa5dc06753798.zip |
vfork: make it killable
Make vfork() killable.
Change do_fork(CLONE_VFORK) to do wait_for_completion_killable(). If it
fails we do not return to the user-mode and never touch the memory shared
with our child.
However, in this case we should clear child->vfork_done before return, we
use task_lock() in do_fork()->wait_for_vfork_done() and
complete_vfork_done() to serialize with each other.
Note: now that we use task_lock() we don't really need completion, we
could turn task->vfork_done into "task_struct *wake_up_me" but this needs
some complications.
NOTE: this and the next patches do not affect in-kernel users of
CLONE_VFORK, kernel threads run with all signals ignored including
SIGKILL/SIGSTOP.
However this is obviously the user-visible change. Not only a fatal
signal can kill the vforking parent, a sub-thread can do execve or
exit_group() and kill the thread sleeping in vfork().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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/fork.c | 40 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index cf3d96379608..892c534ce6e3 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -670,10 +670,34 @@ struct mm_struct *mm_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode) void complete_vfork_done(struct task_struct *tsk) { - struct completion *vfork_done = tsk->vfork_done; + struct completion *vfork; - tsk->vfork_done = NULL; - complete(vfork_done); + task_lock(tsk); + vfork = tsk->vfork_done; + if (likely(vfork)) { + tsk->vfork_done = NULL; + complete(vfork); + } + task_unlock(tsk); +} + +static int wait_for_vfork_done(struct task_struct *child, + struct completion *vfork) +{ + int killed; + + freezer_do_not_count(); + killed = wait_for_completion_killable(vfork); + freezer_count(); + + if (killed) { + task_lock(child); + child->vfork_done = NULL; + task_unlock(child); + } + + put_task_struct(child); + return killed; } /* Please note the differences between mmput and mm_release. @@ -717,7 +741,8 @@ void mm_release(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm) * If we're exiting normally, clear a user-space tid field if * requested. We leave this alone when dying by signal, to leave * the value intact in a core dump, and to save the unnecessary - * trouble otherwise. Userland only wants this done for a sys_exit. + * trouble, say, a killed vfork parent shouldn't touch this mm. + * Userland only wants this done for a sys_exit. */ if (tsk->clear_child_tid) { if (!(tsk->flags & PF_SIGNALED) && @@ -1551,6 +1576,7 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, if (clone_flags & CLONE_VFORK) { p->vfork_done = &vfork; init_completion(&vfork); + get_task_struct(p); } /* @@ -1568,10 +1594,8 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, ptrace_event(trace, nr); if (clone_flags & CLONE_VFORK) { - freezer_do_not_count(); - wait_for_completion(&vfork); - freezer_count(); - ptrace_event(PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK_DONE, nr); + if (!wait_for_vfork_done(p, &vfork)) + ptrace_event(PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK_DONE, nr); } } else { nr = PTR_ERR(p); |