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From: Olivier Langlois <olivier@trillion01.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"<linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>, Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] signal: Make SIGKILL during coredumps an explicit special case
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 14:23:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <991211d94c6dc0ad3501cd9f830cdee916b982b3.camel@trillion01.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7a5kgan.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org>

On Fri, 2022-01-14 at 18:12 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 10:51 AM Eric W. Biederman
> > <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > +       while ((n == -ERESTARTSYS) &&
> > > test_thread_flag(TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)) {
> > > +               tracehook_notify_signal();
> > > +               n = __kernel_write(file, addr, nr, &pos);
> > > +       }
> > 
> > This reads horribly wrongly to me.
> > 
> > That "tracehook_notify_signal()" thing *has* to be renamed before
> > we
> > have anything like this that otherwise looks like "this will just
> > loop
> > forever".
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure we've discussed that "tracehook" thing before - the
> > whole header file is misnamed, and most of the functions in theer
> > are
> > too.
> > 
> > As an ugly alternative, open-code it, so that it's clear that "yup,
> > that clears the TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL flag".
> 
> A cleaner alternative looks like to modify the pipe code to use
> wake_up_XXX instead of wake_up_interruptible_XXX and then have code
> that does pipe_write_killable instead of pipe_write_interruptible.

Do not forget that the problem might not be limited to the pipe FS as
Oleg Nesterov pointed out here:

https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/20210614141032.GA13677@redhat.com/

This is why I did like your patch fixing __dump_emit. If the only
problem is the tracehook_notify_signal() function unclear name, that
should be addressed instead of trying to fix the problem in a different
way.
> 
> There is also a question of how all of this should interact with the
> freezer, as I think changing from interruptible to killable means
> that
> the coredumps became unfreezable.
> 
> I am busily simmering this on my back burner and I hope I can come up
> with something sensible.

IMHO, fixing the problem on the emit function side has the merit of
being future proof if something else than io_uring in the future would
raise the TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL flag

but I am wondering why no one commented anything about my proposal of
cancelling io_uring before generating the core dump therefore stopping
it to flip TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL while the core dump is generated.

Is there something wrong with my proposed approach?
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1629655338.git.olivier@trillion01.com/

It did flawlessly created many dozens of io_uring app core dumps in the
last months for me...

Olivier



  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-15 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 137+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-08 20:17 [PATCH 00/10] Removal of most do_exit calls Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-08 20:25 ` [PATCH 01/10] exit/s390: Remove dead reference to do_exit from copy_thread Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-12 17:48   ` Heiko Carstens
2021-12-13 14:50     ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-05  4:25     ` Al Viro
2021-12-08 20:25 ` [PATCH 02/10] exit: Add and use make_task_dead Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-05  5:01   ` Al Viro
2022-01-05 20:46     ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-05 21:53       ` Al Viro
2022-01-05 22:51         ` Linus Torvalds
2022-01-05 23:34           ` Al Viro
2021-12-08 20:25 ` [PATCH 03/10] exit: Move oops specific logic from do_exit into make_task_dead Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-05  5:48   ` Al Viro
2022-01-06  7:08     ` Al Viro
2022-01-07  3:42     ` Al Viro
2022-01-07 19:02       ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-07 18:59     ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-17  8:05       ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-01-17 12:15         ` Heiko Carstens
2022-01-17 13:17           ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-01-17 13:24         ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-01-17 13:27           ` [PATCH] microblaze: remove CONFIG_SET_FS Arnd Bergmann
2022-02-09 13:50             ` Michal Simek
2022-02-09 13:52               ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-09 14:03                 ` Michal Simek
2022-02-09 14:40               ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-02-09 14:44                 ` Michal Simek
2022-02-09 14:54                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-02-09 23:31                     ` Stafford Horne
2022-02-11  0:17                       ` Stafford Horne
2022-02-11 16:59                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-02-11 17:46                           ` Linus Torvalds
2022-02-11 20:57                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-02-11 21:10                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-02-11 22:21                                 ` Stafford Horne
2022-02-14  7:41                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-14  7:50                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-14 16:20                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-12-08 20:25 ` [PATCH 04/10] exit: Stop poorly open coding do_task_dead in make_task_dead Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-05  5:58   ` Al Viro
2022-01-05 22:33     ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-08 20:25 ` [PATCH 05/10] exit: Stop exporting do_exit Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-05  6:02   ` Al Viro
2022-01-05 22:36     ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-08 20:25 ` [PATCH 06/10] exit: Implement kthread_exit Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-07  2:27   ` Al Viro
2022-01-08 18:35     ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-08 22:44       ` David Laight
2022-01-10 15:00         ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-09  3:27       ` Al Viro
2022-01-10 15:05         ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-08 20:25 ` [PATCH 07/10] exit: Rename module_put_and_exit to module_put_and_kthread_exit Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-08 20:25 ` [PATCH 08/10] exit: Rename complete_and_exit to kthread_complete_and_exit Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-08 20:25 ` [PATCH 09/10] kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for all kthreads Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-22 18:19   ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-12-22 18:30     ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-22 18:46       ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-12-22 23:22         ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-23  0:37           ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-12-23  1:44           ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-23  3:34             ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-23  5:19               ` [PATCH] kthread: Generalize pf_io_worker so it can point to struct kthread Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-23 17:20                 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-01-07  3:59   ` [PATCH 09/10] kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for all kthreads Al Viro
2022-01-08 18:20     ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-08 20:25 ` [PATCH 10/10] exit/kthread: Move the exit code for kernel threads into struct kthread Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-07  3:22   ` Al Viro
2021-12-13 22:50 ` [PATCH 0/8] signal: Cleanup of the signal->flags Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:30   ` [PATCH 00/17] exit: Making task exiting a first class concept Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:32     ` [PATCH 01/17] exit: Remove profile_task_exit & profile_munmap Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-04  7:38       ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-01-07  3:48       ` Al Viro
2022-01-08 16:10         ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:32     ` [PATCH 02/17] exit: Coredumps reach do_group_exit Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:32     ` [PATCH 03/17] exit: Fix the exit_code for wait_task_zombie Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:32     ` [PATCH 04/17] exit: Use the correct exit_code in /proc/<pid>/stat Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:33     ` [PATCH 05/17] taskstats: Cleanup the use of task->exit_code Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:33     ` [PATCH 06/17] ptrace: Remove second setting of PT_SEIZED in ptrace_attach Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:33     ` [PATCH 07/17] ptrace: Remove unused regs argument from ptrace_report_syscall Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:33     ` [PATCH 08/17] ptrace/m68k: Stop open coding ptrace_report_syscall Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-10 15:26       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-01-10 16:20         ` Al Viro
2022-01-10 16:25           ` Al Viro
2022-01-10 17:54           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-01-10 20:37             ` Al Viro
2022-01-10 21:18               ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-11  1:33             ` Michael Schmitz
2022-01-11 22:42               ` Finn Thain
2022-01-12  0:20                 ` Michael Schmitz
2022-01-12  3:32                   ` Finn Thain
2022-01-12  7:54                     ` Michael Schmitz
2022-01-12  7:55                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-01-12  8:05                     ` Michael Schmitz
2022-01-03 21:33     ` [PATCH 09/17] ptrace: Move setting/clearing ptrace_message into ptrace_stop Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:33     ` [PATCH 10/17] ptrace: Return the signal to continue with from ptrace_stop Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:33     ` [PATCH 11/17] ptrace: Separate task->ptrace_code out from task->exit_code Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:33     ` [PATCH 12/17] signal: Compute the process exit_code in get_signal Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:33     ` [PATCH 13/17] signal: Make individual tasks exiting a first class concept Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:33     ` [PATCH 14/17] signal: Remove zap_other_threads Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:33     ` [PATCH 15/17] signal: Add JOBCTL_WILL_EXIT to mark exiting tasks Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:33     ` [PATCH 16/17] signal: Record the exit_code when an exit is scheduled Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-03 21:33     ` [PATCH 17/17] signal: Always set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT on process exit Eric W. Biederman
2022-03-09  0:15     ` [PATCH 00/13] Removing tracehook.h Eric W. Biederman
2022-03-09 20:58       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-13 22:53 ` [PATCH 1/8] signal: Make SIGKILL during coredumps an explicit special case Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-04  6:30   ` Dmitry Osipenko
2022-01-04 16:18     ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-05 19:58     ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-05 21:39       ` Dmitry Osipenko
2022-01-08 18:13         ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-08 18:15           ` [PATCH 1/2] signal: Have prepare_signal detect coredumps using signal->core_state Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-08 18:15           ` [PATCH 2/2] signal: Make coredump handling explicit in complete_signal Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-11  8:59           ` [PATCH 1/8] signal: Make SIGKILL during coredumps an explicit special case Dmitry Osipenko
2022-01-11 17:20             ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-18 17:30               ` Dmitry Osipenko
2022-01-18 17:52                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-18 18:01                   ` Dmitry Osipenko
2022-01-04 18:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2022-01-04 19:47     ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-08 19:13       ` Heiko Carstens
     [not found]         ` <87ilurwjju.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org>
     [not found]           ` <87o84juwhg.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org>
2022-01-10 23:00             ` Olivier Langlois
2022-01-11 17:28               ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-11 18:51                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-11 19:19                   ` Linus Torvalds
2022-01-15  0:12                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-15 19:23                       ` Olivier Langlois [this message]
2022-01-17 16:09                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-17 18:46                           ` io_uring truncating coredumps Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-18  4:23                             ` Linus Torvalds
2022-01-26 15:06                           ` [PATCH 1/8] signal: Make SIGKILL during coredumps an explicit special case Olivier Langlois
2021-12-13 22:53 ` [PATCH 2/8] signal: Drop signals received after a fatal signal has been processed Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-13 22:53 ` [PATCH 3/8] signal: Have the oom killer detect coredumps using signal->core_state Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-13 22:53 ` [PATCH 4/8] signal: During coredumps set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT in zap_process Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-13 22:53 ` [PATCH 5/8] signal: Remove SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-13 22:53 ` [PATCH 6/8] coredump: Stop setting signal->group_exit_task Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-13 22:53 ` [PATCH 7/8] signal: Rename group_exit_task group_exec_task Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-13 22:53 ` [PATCH 8/8] signal: Remove the helper signal_group_exit Eric W. Biederman

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