Re: [RFC] coredump: Do not interrupt dump for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL

[Pavel Begunkov]

On 6/9/21 21:17, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Olivier Langlois has been struggling with coredumps getting truncated in
> tasks using io_uring.  He has also apparently been struggling with
> the some of his email messages not making it to the lists.

Looks syzbot hit something relevant, see
https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/0000000000000012fb05cee99477@xxxxxxxxxx/

In short, a task creates an io_uring worker thread, then the worker
submits a task_work item to the creator task and won't die until
the item is executed/cancelled. And I found that the creator task is
sleeping in do_coredump() -> wait_for_completion()

0xffffffff81343ccb is in do_coredump (fs/coredump.c:469).
464
465             if (core_waiters > 0) {
466                     struct core_thread *ptr;
467
468                     freezer_do_not_count();
469                     wait_for_completion(&core_state->startup);
470                     freezer_count();


A hack executing tws there helps (see diff below).
Any chance anyone knows what this is and how to fix it?


diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
index 3224dee44d30..f6f9dfb02296 100644
--- a/fs/coredump.c
+++ b/fs/coredump.c
@@ -466,7 +466,8 @@ static int coredump_wait(int exit_code, struct core_state *core_state)
         struct core_thread *ptr;
 
         freezer_do_not_count();
-        wait_for_completion(&core_state->startup);
+        while (wait_for_completion_interruptible(&core_state->startup))
+            tracehook_notify_signal();
         freezer_count();
         /*
          * Wait for all the threads to become inactive, so that



> We were talking about some of his struggles and questions in this area
> and he pointed me to this patch he thought he had posted but I could not
> find in the list archives.
>
> In short the coredump code deliberately supports being interrupted by
> SIGKILL, and depends upon prepare_signal to filter out all other
> signals.  With the io_uring code comes an extra test in signal_pending
> for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL (which is something about asking a task to run
> task_work_run).
>
> I am baffled why the dumper thread would be getting interrupted by
> TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL but apparently it is.  Perhaps it is an io_uring
> thread that is causing the dump.
>
> Now that we know the problem the question becomes how to fix this issue.
>
> Is there any chance all of this TWA_SIGNAL logic could simply be removed
> now that io_uring threads are normal process threads?
>
> There are only the two call sites so I perhaps the could test
> signal->flags & SIGNAL_FLAG_COREDUMP before scheduling a work on
> a process that is dumping core?
>
> Perhaps the coredump code needs to call task_work_run before it does
> anything?
>
> -----
>
> From: Olivier Langlois <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] coredump: Do not interrupt dump for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:25:06 -0400
>
> io_uring is a big user of task_work and any event that io_uring made a
> task waiting for that occurs during the core dump generation will
> generate a TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL.
>
> Here are the detailed steps of the problem:
> 1. io_uring calls vfs_poll() to install a task to a file wait queue
>     with io_async_wake() as the wakeup function cb from io_arm_poll_handler()
> 2. wakeup function ends up calling task_work_add() with TWA_SIGNAL
> 3. task_work_add() sets the TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL bit by calling
>     set_notify_signal()
>
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Langlois <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   fs/coredump.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
> index 2868e3e171ae..79c6e3f114db 100644
> --- a/fs/coredump.c
> +++ b/fs/coredump.c
> @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ static bool dump_interrupted(void)
>   	 * but then we need to teach dump_write() to restart and clear
>   	 * TIF_SIGPENDING.
>   	 */
> -	return signal_pending(current);
> +	return task_sigpending(current);
>   }
>   
>   static void wait_for_dump_helpers(struct file *file)

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Pavel Begunkov