Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.11 43/44] signal: don't allow STOP on PF_IO_WORKER threads

[Stefan Metzmacher]

Am 25.03.21 um 13:04 schrieb Eric W. Biederman:
> Stefan Metzmacher <metze@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> Am 25.03.21 um 12:24 schrieb Sasha Levin:
>>> From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> [ Upstream commit 4db4b1a0d1779dc159f7b87feb97030ec0b12597 ]
>>>
>>> Just like we don't allow normal signals to IO threads, don't deliver a
>>> STOP to a task that has PF_IO_WORKER set. The IO threads don't take
>>> signals in general, and have no means of flushing out a stop either.
>>>
>>> Longer term, we may want to look into allowing stop of these threads,
>>> as it relates to eg process freezing. For now, this prevents a spin
>>> issue if a SIGSTOP is delivered to the parent task.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  kernel/signal.c | 3 ++-
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
>>> index 55526b941011..00a3840f6037 100644
>>> --- a/kernel/signal.c
>>> +++ b/kernel/signal.c
>>> @@ -288,7 +288,8 @@ bool task_set_jobctl_pending(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long mask)
>>>  			JOBCTL_STOP_SIGMASK | JOBCTL_TRAPPING));
>>>  	BUG_ON((mask & JOBCTL_TRAPPING) && !(mask & JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK));
>>>  
>>> -	if (unlikely(fatal_signal_pending(task) || (task->flags & PF_EXITING)))
>>> +	if (unlikely(fatal_signal_pending(task) ||
>>> +		     (task->flags & (PF_EXITING | PF_IO_WORKER))))
>>>  		return false;
>>>  
>>>  	if (mask & JOBCTL_STOP_SIGMASK)
>>>
>>
>> Again, why is this proposed for 5.11 and 5.10 already?
> 
> Has the bit about the io worker kthreads been backported?
> If so this isn't horrible.  If not this is nonsense.

I don't know, I hope not...

But I just tested v5.12-rc4 and attaching to
an application with iothreads with gdb is still not possible,
it still loops forever trying to attach to the iothreads.

And I tested 'kill -9 $pidofiothread', and it feezed the whole
machine...

So there's still work to do in order to get 5.12 stable.

I'm short on time currently, but I hope to send more details soon.

metze