Re: [PATCH 3/3] fork, vhost: Use CLONE_THREAD to fix freezer/ps regression

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 05/27, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Looking forward I don't see not asking the worker threads to stop
> for the coredump right now causing any problems in the future.
> So I think we can use this to resolve the coredump issue I spotted.

But we have almost the same problem with exec.

Execing thread will wait for vhost_worker() while vhost_worker will wait for
.release -> vhost_task_stop().

And even O_CLOEXEC won't help, do_close_on_exec() is called after de_thread().

Or suppose that vhost_worker's sub-thread forks a child with CLONE_FILES...

If we want CLONE_THREAD, I think vhost_worker() should exit after get_signal()
returns SIGKILL. Perhaps it should "disable" vhost_work_queue() somehow and
flush the pending works on ->work_list before exit, I dunno. But imo it should
not wait for the final fput().

Oleg.