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userfaultfd: don't block on the last VM updates at exit time
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 1 Mar 2016 19:56:22 +0000 (11:56 -0800)
committerTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Wed, 6 Apr 2016 09:27:25 +0000 (10:27 +0100)
commit8a355264040a6d585e6461b3894838bf2f6a7e87
tree01c0aace9253d3c0dc8f34c067dc6c0586632b72
parent7e2cbef32598eeac29344b2219f3ccbaf4773989
userfaultfd: don't block on the last VM updates at exit time

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1558330
commit 39680f50ae54cbbb6e72ac38b8329dd3eb9105f4 upstream.

The exit path will do some final updates to the VM of an exiting process
to inform others of the fact that the process is going away.

That happens, for example, for robust futex state cleanup, but also if
the parent has asked for a TID update when the process exits (we clear
the child tid field in user space).

However, at the time we do those final VM accesses, we've already
stopped accepting signals, so the usual "stop waiting for userfaults on
signal" code in fs/userfaultfd.c no longer works, and the process can
become an unkillable zombie waiting for something that will never
happen.

To solve this, just make handle_userfault() abort any user fault
handling if we're already in the exit path past the signal handling
state being dead (marked by PF_EXITING).

This VM special case is pretty ugly, and it is possible that we should
look at finalizing signals later (or move the VM final accesses
earlier).  But in the meantime this is a fairly minimally intrusive fix.

Reported-and-tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
fs/userfaultfd.c