2007-10-01 21:23:35

by Jeff Dike

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Subject: [PATCH 3/3] UML - Definitively kill subprocesses on panic

From: Lepton Wu <[email protected]>

In a stock 2.6.22.6 kernel, poweroff a user mode linux guest
(2.6.22.6 running in skas0 mode) will halt the host linux. I
think the reason is the kernel thread abort because of a bug.
Then the sys_reboot in process of user mode linux guest is
not trapped by the user mode linux kernel and is executed by host.
I think it is better to make sure all of our children process
to quit when user mode linux kernel abort.

[ jdike - the kernel process needs to ignore SIGTERM, plus the
waitpid/kill loop is needed to make sure that all of our children
are dead before the kernel exits ]

Signed-off-by: Lepton Wu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
---
arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c | 2 +-
arch/um/os-Linux/util.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.22/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c 2007-10-01 15:11:14.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.22/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c 2007-10-01 17:04:34.000000000 -0400
@@ -105,6 +105,44 @@ int setjmp_wrapper(void (*proc)(void *,

void os_dump_core(void)
{
+ int pid;
+
signal(SIGSEGV, SIG_DFL);
+
+ /*
+ * We are about to SIGTERM this entire process group to ensure that
+ * nothing is around to run after the kernel exits. The
+ * kernel wants to abort, not die through SIGTERM, so we
+ * ignore it here.
+ */
+
+ signal(SIGTERM, SIG_IGN);
+ kill(0, SIGTERM);
+ /*
+ * Most of the other processes associated with this UML are
+ * likely sTopped, so give them a SIGCONT so they see the
+ * SIGTERM.
+ */
+ kill(0, SIGCONT);
+
+ /*
+ * Now, having sent signals to everyone but us, make sure they
+ * die by ptrace. Processes can survive what's been done to
+ * them so far - the mechanism I understand is receiving a
+ * SIGSEGV and segfaulting immediately upon return. There is
+ * always a SIGSEGV pending, and (I'm guessing) signals are
+ * processed in numeric order so the SIGTERM (signal 15 vs
+ * SIGSEGV being signal 11) is never handled.
+ *
+ * Run a waitpid loop until we get some kind of error.
+ * Hopefully, it's ECHILD, but there's not a lot we can do if
+ * it's something else. Tell os_kill_ptraced_process not to
+ * wait for the child to report its death because there's
+ * nothing reasonable to do if that fails.
+ */
+
+ while ((pid = waitpid(-1, NULL, WNOHANG)) > 0)
+ os_kill_ptraced_process(pid, 0);
+
abort();
}
Index: linux-2.6.22/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c 2007-10-01 16:41:26.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.22/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c 2007-10-01 17:03:48.000000000 -0400
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static int userspace_tramp(void *stack)

ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, 0, 0);

- init_new_thread_signals();
+ signal(SIGTERM, SIG_DFL);
err = set_interval();
if (err)
panic("userspace_tramp - setting timer failed, errno = %d\n",