[PATCH 1/2] wait/ptrace: always assume __WALL if the child is traced

[Oleg Nesterov]

The following program (simplified version of generated by syzkaller)

	#include <pthread.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <sys/ptrace.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <signal.h>

	void *thread_func(void *arg)
	{
		ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0,0,0);
		return 0;
	}

	int main(void)
	{
		pthread_t thread;

		if (fork())
			return 0;

		while (getppid() != 1)
			;

		pthread_create(&thread, NULL, thread_func, NULL);
		pthread_join(thread, NULL);
		return 0;
	}

creates the unreapable zombie if /sbin/init doesn't use __WALL.

This is not a kernel bug, at least in a sense that everything works as
expected: debugger should reap a traced sub-thread before it can reap
the leader, but without __WALL/__WCLONE do_wait() ignores sub-threads.

Unfortunately, it seems that /sbin/init in most (all?) distributions
doesn't use it and we have to change the kernel to avoid the problem.

This patch just adds the "ptrace" check into eligible_child(). To some
degree this matches the "tsk->ptrace" in exit_notify(), ->exit_signal
is mostly ignored when the tracee reports to debugger.

This obviously means the user-visible change: __WCLONE and __WALL no
longer have any meaning for debugger. And I can only hope that this
won't break something.

We could make a more conservative change. Say, we can take __WCLONE
into account, or !thread_group_leader(). But it would be nice to not
complicate these historical/confusing checks.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/exit.c |   29 ++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 22fcc05..819f51e 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -914,17 +914,28 @@ static int eligible_pid(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
 		task_pid_type(p, wo->wo_type) == wo->wo_pid;
 }
 
-static int eligible_child(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
+static int
+eligible_child(struct wait_opts *wo, bool ptrace, struct task_struct *p)
 {
 	if (!eligible_pid(wo, p))
 		return 0;
-	/* Wait for all children (clone and not) if __WALL is set;
-	 * otherwise, wait for clone children *only* if __WCLONE is
-	 * set; otherwise, wait for non-clone children *only*.  (Note:
-	 * A "clone" child here is one that reports to its parent
-	 * using a signal other than SIGCHLD.) */
-	if (((p->exit_signal != SIGCHLD) ^ !!(wo->wo_flags & __WCLONE))
-	    && !(wo->wo_flags & __WALL))
+
+	/*
+	 * Wait for all children (clone and not) if __WALL is set or
+	 * if it is traced by us.
+	 */
+	if (ptrace || (wo->wo_flags & __WALL))
+		return 1;
+
+	/*
+	 * Otherwise, wait for clone children *only* if __WCLONE is set;
+	 * otherwise, wait for non-clone children *only*.
+	 *
+	 * Note: a "clone" child here is one that reports to its parent
+	 * using a signal other than SIGCHLD, or a non-leader thread which
+	 * we can only see if it is traced by us.
+	 */
+	if ((p->exit_signal != SIGCHLD) ^ !!(wo->wo_flags & __WCLONE))
 		return 0;
 
 	return 1;
@@ -1297,7 +1308,7 @@ static int wait_consider_task(struct wait_opts *wo, int ptrace,
 	if (unlikely(exit_state == EXIT_DEAD))
 		return 0;
 
-	ret = eligible_child(wo, p);
+	ret = eligible_child(wo, ptrace, p);
 	if (!ret)
 		return ret;
 
-- 
1.5.5.1

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