Re: [PATCHSET] ptrace,signal: group stop / ptrace updates

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Fri Jan 28 2011 - 13:03:43 EST


On 01/28, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> The bug is that occasionally Ctrl-C does not get processed, and that the Ctrl-C is
> 'lost'. It can be reproduced here by running ./test-signal several times, and
> Ctrl-C-ing it:
>
> $ ./test-signal
> ^C
> $ ./test-signal
> ^C^C
> $ ./test-signal
> ^C
>
> See that '^C^C' line? That is where i had to do Ctrl-C twice.

Reproduced.

At first glance, /bin/sh should be blamed... Hmm, probably yes,
I even reproduced this under strace, and this is what I see

wait4(-1, 0x7fff388431c4, 0, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGINT (Interrupt) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigreturn(0) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 9706

So, ^C is not lost, but ./test-signal doesn't want to exit.




This is what ./test-signal does when ^C does work:

wait4(-1, 0x7fff1c283b74, 0, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGINT (Interrupt) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigreturn(0) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)

OK, it doesn't exit immediately, but then it kills itself:

wait4(-1, [{WIFSIGNALED(s) && WTERMSIG(s) == SIGINT}], 0, NULL) = 19585
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f3c3035b150}, {0x433d30, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f3c3035b150}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f3c3035b150}, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f3c3035b150}, 8) = 0
kill(19584, SIGINT)




Looking into the previous log (when it doesn't exit) again,

wait4(-1, 0x7fff388431c4, 0, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGINT (Interrupt) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigreturn(0) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 9706
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
wait4(-1, 0x7fff38842d24, WNOHANG, NULL) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
rt_sigreturn(0x8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f3cbdbd0150}, {0x433d30, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f3cbdbd0150}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT CHLD], [], 8) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7f3cbe9ab780) = 9707

Perhaps the handler for SIGCHLD clears some internal i_am_going_to_exit flag,
I dunno.

Oleg.

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