WARNING in task_participate_group_stop

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Mon Nov 02 2015 - 08:25:59 EST


Hello,

I've hit the following WARNING on 6a13feb9c82803e2b815eca72fa7a9f5561d7861 (4.3)

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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at kernel/signal.c:334
task_participate_group_stop+0x157/0x1d0()
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.3.0 #48
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
ffffffff82e40280 ffff88003eb0fae0 ffffffff819efe55 0000000000000000
ffff88003eb0fb20 ffffffff810ec871 ffffffff8110f4d7 ffff88003eb00000
ffff88003eb20000 0000000000000000 ffff88003eb0fbf8 ffff88003eb20000
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810eca35>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20 kernel/panic.c:480
[<ffffffff8110f4d7>] task_participate_group_stop+0x157/0x1d0
kernel/signal.c:334
[<ffffffff81113587>] do_signal_stop+0x1e7/0x6e0 kernel/signal.c:2060
[<ffffffff81116ab7>] get_signal+0x387/0x11b0 kernel/signal.c:2316
[<ffffffff8100cf0d>] do_signal+0x8d/0x19e0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:707
[<ffffffff81005d8d>] prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x11d/0x170
arch/x86/entry/common.c:251
[<ffffffff81005e83>] syscall_return_slowpath+0xa3/0x2b0
arch/x86/entry/common.c:317
[<ffffffff82d4f6a7>] int_ret_from_sys_call+0x25/0x8f
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:281
---[ end trace f6697fd630b7c361 ]---


The reproducer is (needs to be run as root):

// autogenerated by syzkaller (http://github.com/google/syzkaller)
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main()
{
int pid = 1;
ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, 0, 0);
ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, 0, PTRACE_O_EXITKILL);
sleep(1);
return 0;
}

Yes, it is weird and it kills init right afterwards. But I wasn't able
to figure out what's the root cause (why task does not have
JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING) and maybe the same WARNING can be triggered
without root and/or with other than init process. So still posting it
here.

Can somebody more knowledgeable in ptrace please take a look at the root cause?

Thanks
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