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vfork: make it killable

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Make vfork() killable.

Change do_fork(CLONE_VFORK) to do wait_for_completion_killable().  If it
fails we do not return to the user-mode and never touch the memory shared
with our child.

However, in this case we should clear child->vfork_done before return, we
use task_lock() in do_fork()->wait_for_vfork_done() and
complete_vfork_done() to serialize with each other.

Note: now that we use task_lock() we don't really need completion, we
could turn task->vfork_done into "task_struct *wake_up_me" but this needs
some complications.

NOTE: this and the next patches do not affect in-kernel users of
CLONE_VFORK, kernel threads run with all signals ignored including
SIGKILL/SIGSTOP.

However this is obviously the user-visible change.  Not only a fatal
signal can kill the vforking parent, a sub-thread can do execve or
exit_group() and kill the thread sleeping in vfork().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov
2012-03-05 14:59:13 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent c415c3b47e
commit d68b46fe16
2 changed files with 33 additions and 9 deletions
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@@ -2372,7 +2372,7 @@ static inline int thread_group_empty(struct task_struct *p)
* Protects ->fs, ->files, ->mm, ->group_info, ->comm, keyring
* subscriptions and synchronises with wait4(). Also used in procfs. Also
* pins the final release of task.io_context. Also protects ->cpuset and
* ->cgroup.subsys[].
* ->cgroup.subsys[]. And ->vfork_done.
*
* Nests both inside and outside of read_lock(&tasklist_lock).
* It must not be nested with write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock),