Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 10:22:32PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> kthread_stop is *sick*.
> 
>     struct kthread self;
> 
> ...
> 
>     current->vfork_done = &self.exited;
> 
> ...
> 
>     do_exit(ret);
> 
> And then some other thread goes and waits for the completion, which is
> *on the stack*, which, in any sane world (e.g. with my series
> applied), is long gone by then.

cute

> Is there seriously no way to directly wait for a struct task_struct to
> exit?  Could we, say, kmalloc the completion (or maybe even the whole
> struct kthread)

I suppose the easiest is to merge struct kthread into struct
kthread_create_info, and maybe union some bits if we're really worried
about size.

> and (ick!) hang it off ->vfork_done?

This... cleanup is going to be somewhat icky.