Hi Linus,
This contains a fix for pidfd polling. It ensures that the task's exit
state is visible to all waiters:
The following changes since commit 5f9e832c137075045d15cd6899ab0505cfb2ca4b:
Linus 5.3-rc1 (2019-07-21 14:05:38 -0700)
are available in the Git repository at:
g...@gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
tags/for-linus-20190722
for you to fetch changes up to b191d6491be67cef2b3fa83015561caca1394ab9:
pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state (2019-07-22 16:02:03 +0200)
/* Summary */
The pidfd polling code suffered from a race condition. A waiter could be
notified via do_notify_pidfd() without the task's exit state being set and
thus not visible to the waiter. This would cause the waiter to be blocked
indefinitely. The following schematic illustrates how this could happen:
CPU 0 CPU 1
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exit_notify
do_notify_parent
do_notify_pidfd
pidfd_poll
if (tsk->exit_state)
tsk->exit_state = EXIT_DEAD
This is fixed by ensuring that the task's exit state is set before calling
into do_notify_pidfd().
Please consider pulling from the signed for-linus-20190722 tag.
Thanks!
Christian
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Suren Baghdasaryan (1):
pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state
kernel/exit.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
