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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2015-10-22 23:32:08 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-10-23 11:55:10 +0300 |
| commit | 5211613978cb7353a3237e4372958c0e7514683f (patch) | |
| tree | 01fae404b1b576e032245ef68ee50f0a92ea8090 /kernel/kmod.c | |
| parent | 8a70dd2669200ce83255ed8c5ebef7e59f9e8707 (diff) | |
| download | linux-5211613978cb7353a3237e4372958c0e7514683f.tar.xz | |
kmod: don't run async usermode helper as a child of kworker thread
call_usermodehelper_exec_sync() does fork() + wait() with "unignored"
SIGCHLD. What we have missed is that this worker thread can have other
children previously forked by call_usermodehelper_exec_work() without
UMH_WAIT_PROC. If such a child exits in between it becomes a zombie
because auto-reaping only works if SIGCHLD is ignored, and nobody can
reap it (unless/until this worker thread exits too).
Change the !UMH_WAIT_PROC case to use CLONE_PARENT.
Note: this is only first step. All PF_KTHREAD tasks, even created by
kernel_thread() should have ->parent == kthreadd by default.
Fixes: bb304a5c6fc63d8506c ("kmod: handle UMH_WAIT_PROC from system unbound workqueue")
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kmod.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kmod.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c index da98d0593de2..0277d1216f80 100644 --- a/kernel/kmod.c +++ b/kernel/kmod.c @@ -327,9 +327,13 @@ static void call_usermodehelper_exec_work(struct work_struct *work) call_usermodehelper_exec_sync(sub_info); } else { pid_t pid; - + /* + * Use CLONE_PARENT to reparent it to kthreadd; we do not + * want to pollute current->children, and we need a parent + * that always ignores SIGCHLD to ensure auto-reaping. + */ pid = kernel_thread(call_usermodehelper_exec_async, sub_info, - SIGCHLD); + CLONE_PARENT | SIGCHLD); if (pid < 0) { sub_info->retval = pid; umh_complete(sub_info); |