From 7f5d3652d469cdf9eb2365dfea7ce3fb9e1409cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:58:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] reparent_thread: fix a zombie leak if /sbin/init ignores SIGCHLD If /sbin/init ignores SIGCHLD and we re-parent a zombie, it is leaked. reparent_thread() does do_notify_parent() which sets ->exit_signal = -1 in this case. This means that nobody except us can reap it, the detached task is not visible to do_wait(). Change reparent_thread() to return a boolean (like __pthread_detach) to indicate that the thread is dead and must be released. Also change forget_original_parent() to add the child to ptrace_dead list in this case. The naming becomes insane, the next patch does the cleanup. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/exit.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 5be0a406faeb..3e09b7cb3b20 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -810,8 +810,11 @@ static void ptrace_exit_finish(struct task_struct *parent, } } -static void reparent_thread(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *father) +/* Returns nonzero if the child should be released. */ +static int reparent_thread(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *father) { + int dead; + if (p->pdeath_signal) /* We already hold the tasklist_lock here. */ group_send_sig_info(p->pdeath_signal, SEND_SIG_NOINFO, p); @@ -819,12 +822,12 @@ static void reparent_thread(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *father) list_move_tail(&p->sibling, &p->real_parent->children); if (task_detached(p)) - return; + return 0; /* If this is a threaded reparent there is no need to * notify anyone anything has happened. */ if (same_thread_group(p->real_parent, father)) - return; + return 0; /* We don't want people slaying init. */ p->exit_signal = SIGCHLD; @@ -832,11 +835,19 @@ static void reparent_thread(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *father) /* If we'd notified the old parent about this child's death, * also notify the new parent. */ + dead = 0; if (!p->ptrace && - p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE && thread_group_empty(p)) + p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE && thread_group_empty(p)) { do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal); + if (task_detached(p)) { + p->exit_state = EXIT_DEAD; + dead = 1; + } + } kill_orphaned_pgrp(p, father); + + return dead; } /* @@ -896,7 +907,8 @@ static void forget_original_parent(struct task_struct *father) BUG_ON(p->ptrace); p->parent = p->real_parent; } - reparent_thread(p, father); + if (reparent_thread(p, father)) + list_add(&p->ptrace_entry, &ptrace_dead);; } write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); -- 2.34.1