Re: [PATCH 1/2] ptrace: make wait_on_bit(JOBCTL_TRAPPING_BIT) in ptrace_attach() killable

[Tejun Heo]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 07:47:32PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> ptrace_attach() can hang waiting for STOPPED -> TRACED transition if the
> tracee gets frozen in between, change wait_on_bit() to use TASK_KILLABLE.
> 
> This doesn't really solve the problem(s) and we probably need to fix the
> freezer. In particular, note that this means that pm freezer will fail if
> it races attach-to-stopped-task.
> 
> And otoh perhaps we can just remove JOBCTL_TRAPPING_BIT altogether, it is
> not clear if we really need to hide this transition from debugger, WNOHANG
> after PTRACE_ATTACH can fail anyway if it races with SIGCONT.
> 
> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun
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