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Biederman" X-Patchwork-Id: 11413313 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org (pdx-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.123]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B2181395 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:36:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mother.openwall.net (mother.openwall.net [195.42.179.200]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CBD52468A for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:36:44 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 5CBD52468A Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=xmission.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=kernel-hardening-return-18019-patchwork-kernel-hardening=patchwork.kernel.org@lists.openwall.com Received: (qmail 9677 invoked by uid 550); 28 Feb 2020 22:36:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact kernel-hardening-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Delivered-To: mailing list kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Received: (qmail 9651 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2020 22:36:42 -0000 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Cc: Al Viro , Kernel Hardening , Linux API , Linux FS Devel , Linux Security Module , Akinobu Mita , Alexey Dobriyan , Andrew Morton , Andy Lutomirski , Daniel Micay , Djalal Harouni , "Dmitry V . Levin" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Ingo Molnar , "J . Bruce Fields" , Jeff Layton , Jonathan Corbet , Kees Cook , Oleg Nesterov , Alexey Gladkov , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Dike , Richard Weinberger , Anton Ivanov References: <20200210150519.538333-8-gladkov.alexey@gmail.com> <87v9odlxbr.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <20200212144921.sykucj4mekcziicz@comp-core-i7-2640m-0182e6> <87tv3vkg1a.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87v9obipk9.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <20200212200335.GO23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20200212203833.GQ23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20200212204124.GR23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <87lfp7h422.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87pnejf6fz.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <871rqpaswu.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <871rqk2brn.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <878skmsbyy.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:34:20 -0600 In-Reply-To: <878skmsbyy.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:17:41 -0600") Message-ID: <878skmpcib.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-XM-SPF: eid=1j7oF9-0002E6-6T;;;mid=<878skmpcib.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org>;;;hst=in01.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=68.227.160.95;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX1+NbByb1lQfJAk+7olBYMa3XlQf2trYP+A= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 68.227.160.95 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on sa07.xmission.com X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.5 required=8.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_50, DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE,T_TooManySym_01,XMGappySubj_01,XMNoVowels,XMSubLong autolearn=disabled version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Report: * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.8 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 40 to 60% * [score: 0.4999] * 0.5 XMGappySubj_01 Very gappy subject * 1.5 XMNoVowels Alpha-numberic number with no vowels * 0.7 XMSubLong Long Subject * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa07 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] * 0.0 T_TooManySym_01 4+ unique symbols in subject X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa07 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: **; X-Spam-Relay-Country: X-Spam-Timing: total 439 ms - load_scoreonly_sql: 0.06 (0.0%), signal_user_changed: 6 (1.5%), b_tie_ro: 2.0 (0.5%), parse: 1.21 (0.3%), extract_message_metadata: 14 (3.1%), get_uri_detail_list: 1.80 (0.4%), tests_pri_-1000: 18 (4.1%), tests_pri_-950: 1.78 (0.4%), tests_pri_-900: 1.15 (0.3%), tests_pri_-90: 31 (7.0%), check_bayes: 29 (6.6%), b_tokenize: 10 (2.4%), b_tok_get_all: 9 (2.0%), b_comp_prob: 3.4 (0.8%), b_tok_touch_all: 3.9 (0.9%), b_finish: 0.68 (0.2%), tests_pri_0: 315 (71.7%), check_dkim_signature: 0.91 (0.2%), check_dkim_adsp: 2.7 (0.6%), poll_dns_idle: 0.54 (0.1%), tests_pri_10: 2.3 (0.5%), tests_pri_500: 45 (10.3%), rewrite_mail: 0.00 (0.0%) Subject: [PATCH 4/3] pid: Improve the comment about waiting in zap_pid_ns_processes X-Spam-Flag: No X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 05 May 2016 13:38:54 -0600) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in01.mta.xmission.com) Oleg wrote a very informative comment, but with the removal of proc_cleanup_work it is no longer accurate. Rewrite the comment so that it only talks about the details that are still relevant, and hopefully is a little clearer. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Acked-by: Christian Brauner --- kernel/pid_namespace.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c index 318fcc6ba301..01f8ba32cc0c 100644 --- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c +++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c @@ -224,20 +224,27 @@ void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns) } while (rc != -ECHILD); /* - * kernel_wait4() above can't reap the EXIT_DEAD children but we do not - * really care, we could reparent them to the global init. We could - * exit and reap ->child_reaper even if it is not the last thread in - * this pid_ns, free_pid(pid_allocated == 0) calls proc_cleanup_work(), - * pid_ns can not go away until proc_kill_sb() drops the reference. + * kernel_wait4() misses EXIT_DEAD children, and EXIT_ZOMBIE + * process whose parents processes are outside of the pid + * namespace. Such processes are created with setns()+fork(). * - * But this ns can also have other tasks injected by setns()+fork(). - * Again, ignoring the user visible semantics we do not really need - * to wait until they are all reaped, but they can be reparented to - * us and thus we need to ensure that pid->child_reaper stays valid - * until they all go away. See free_pid()->wake_up_process(). + * If those EXIT_ZOMBIE processes are not reaped by their + * parents before their parents exit, they will be reparented + * to pid_ns->child_reaper. Thus pidns->child_reaper needs to + * stay valid until they all go away. * - * We rely on ignored SIGCHLD, an injected zombie must be autoreaped - * if reparented. + * The code relies on the the pid_ns->child_reaper ignoring + * SIGCHILD to cause those EXIT_ZOMBIE processes to be + * autoreaped if reparented. + * + * Semantically it is also desirable to wait for EXIT_ZOMBIE + * processes before allowing the child_reaper to be reaped, as + * that gives the invariant that when the init process of a + * pid namespace is reaped all of the processes in the pid + * namespace are gone. + * + * Once all of the other tasks are gone from the pid_namespace + * free_pid() will awaken this task. */ for (;;) { set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);