coredump: ensure all coredumping tasks have SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Sat, 7 Nov 2015 00:32:31 +0000 (16:32 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 7 Nov 2015 01:50:42 +0000 (17:50 -0800)
commit5fa534c987784c4811757a34c425aff3ce3b5037
tree09aa19be1afc7e10913f29758055c2056d5d3695
parent9317bb9696566e6759203ffcaa80481b725785b3
coredump: ensure all coredumping tasks have SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP

task_will_free_mem() is wrong in many ways, and in particular the
SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP check is not reliable: a task can participate in the
coredumping without SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP bit set.

change zap_threads() paths to always set SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP even if
other CLONE_VM processes can't react to SIGKILL.  Fortunately, at least
oom-kill case if fine; it kills all tasks sharing the same mm, so it
should also kill the process which actually dumps the core.

The change in prepare_signal() is not strictly necessary, it just ensures
that the patch does not bring another subtle behavioural change.  But it
reminds us that this SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT/COREDUMP case needs more changes.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Kyle Walker <kwalker@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kozina <skozina@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/coredump.c
kernel/signal.c