Re: [PATCH v3] kernel/exit: do panic earlier to get coredump if global init task exit

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Fri Dec 20 2019 - 14:53:07 EST


On December 20, 2019 8:38:00 PM GMT+01:00, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 12/19, qiwuchen55@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> @@ -517,10 +517,6 @@ static struct task_struct
>*find_child_reaper(struct task_struct *father,
>> }
>>
>> write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
>> - if (unlikely(pid_ns == &init_pid_ns)) {
>> - panic("Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x%08x\n",
>> - father->signal->group_exit_code ?: father->exit_code);
>> - }
>>
>> list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, dead, ptrace_entry) {
>> list_del_init(&p->ptrace_entry);
>> @@ -766,6 +762,15 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code)
>> acct_update_integrals(tsk);
>> group_dead = atomic_dec_and_test(&tsk->signal->live);
>> if (group_dead) {
>> + /*
>> + * If the last thread of global init exit, do panic
>> + * immeddiately to get the coredump to find any clue
>> + * for init task in userspace.
>> + */
>> + if (unlikely(is_global_init(tsk)))
>> + panic("Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x%08x\n",
>> + tsk->signal->group_exit_code ?: (int)code);
>> +
>
>Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks. I'll pick this up unless someone objects.

Christian