Re: SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE and init again

From: Jamie Iles
Date: Thu Apr 27 2017 - 08:17:09 EST


On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 05:18:58PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Hi Jamie,
>
> On 04/25, Jamie Iles wrote:
> >
> > Hi Oleg,
> >
> > I'm back looking at SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE and debugging child reapers again,
> > and the current issue is when running code in the target process,
> > SIGTRAP firing and that causing SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE protection to be
> > removed in force_sig_info():
> >
> > if (action->sa.sa_handler == SIG_DFL)
> > t->signal->flags &= ~SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE;
>
> Yes, this is what I meant when I said force_sig_info() needs changes too.
> I was going to fix it "tomorrow" but I was distracted and then forgot.
>
> > @@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@ force_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t)
> > recalc_sigpending_and_wake(t);
> > }
> > }
> > - if (action->sa.sa_handler == SIG_DFL)
> > + if (action->sa.sa_handler == SIG_DFL && !t->ptrace)
> > t->signal->flags &= ~SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE;
> > ret = specific_send_sig_info(sig, info, t);
> > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&t->sighand->siglock, flags);
>
> Not sure, let me think a bit more... and this is not enough anyway.
>
> perhaps we should start with this simple change, but the "real" fix
> needs a lot of cleanups, although I am not sure if we will ever do this.

Okay, sounds good. I'm happy to spend more time looking at this if you
have suggestions - in the context of namespaces and containers this
seems more relevant than when it was just the system init that we were
protecting.

Jamie