From: Suren Baghdasaryan <sur...@google.com> 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, and the below patch fixes it. To fix this, we set tsk->exit_state before calling do_notify_pidfd. Cc: kernel-t...@android.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <sur...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <j...@joelfernandes.org> --- kernel/exit.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index a75b6a7f458a..740ceacb4b76 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -720,6 +720,7 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead) if (group_dead) kill_orphaned_pgrp(tsk->group_leader, NULL); + tsk->exit_state = EXIT_ZOMBIE; if (unlikely(tsk->ptrace)) { int sig = thread_group_leader(tsk) && thread_group_empty(tsk) && @@ -1156,10 +1157,11 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p) ptrace_unlink(p); /* If parent wants a zombie, don't release it now */ - state = EXIT_ZOMBIE; + p->exit_state = EXIT_ZOMBIE; if (do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal)) - state = EXIT_DEAD; - p->exit_state = state; + p->exit_state = EXIT_DEAD; + + state = p->exit_state; write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); } if (state == EXIT_DEAD) -- 2.22.0.657.g960e92d24f-goog