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Subject[PATCH] Make sure to wake reaper

Since commit af4b8a83add95ef40716401395b44a1b579965f4 it's been
possible to get into a situation where a pidns reaper is
<defunct>, reparented to host pid 1, but never reaped. How to
reproduce this is documented at

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1168526
(and see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1168526/comments/13)
In short, run repeated starts of a container whose init is

Process.exit(0);

sysrq-t when such a task is playing zombie shows:

[ 131.132978] init x ffff88011fc14580 0 2084 2039 0x00000000
[ 131.132978] ffff880116e89ea8 0000000000000002 ffff880116e89fd8 0000000000014580
[ 131.132978] ffff880116e89fd8 0000000000014580 ffff8801172a0000 ffff8801172a0000
[ 131.132978] ffff8801172a0630 ffff88011729fff0 ffff880116e14650 ffff88011729fff0
[ 131.132978] Call Trace:
[ 131.132978] [<ffffffff816f6159>] schedule+0x29/0x70
[ 131.132978] [<ffffffff81064591>] do_exit+0x6e1/0xa40
[ 131.132978] [<ffffffff81071eae>] ? signal_wake_up_state+0x1e/0x30
[ 131.132978] [<ffffffff8106496f>] do_group_exit+0x3f/0xa0
[ 131.132978] [<ffffffff810649e4>] SyS_exit_group+0x14/0x20
[ 131.132978] [<ffffffff8170102f>] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6

Further debugging showed that every time this happened, zap_pid_ns_processes()
started with nr_hashed being 3, while we were expecting it to drop to 2.
Any time it didn't happen, nr_hashed was 1 or 2. So the reaper was
waiting for nr_hashed to become 2, but free_pid() only wakes the reaper
if nr_hashed hits 1. This patch makes free_pid() wake the reaper any
time the reaper is PF_EXITING, to force it to re-test the
pidns->nr_hashed = init_pids test. Note that this is more like what
__unhash_process() used to do before
af4b8a83add95ef40716401395b44a1b579965f4.

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
kernel/pid.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index 0db3e79..6b312c4 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -274,6 +274,10 @@ void free_pid(struct pid *pid)
case 0:
schedule_work(&ns->proc_work);
break;
+ default:
+ if (ns->child_reaper->flags & PF_EXITING)
+ wake_up_process(ns->child_reaper);
+ break;
}
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pidmap_lock, flags);
--
1.8.3.2


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