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userfaultfd: don't block on the last VM updates at exit time
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 1 Mar 2016 19:56:22 +0000 (11:56 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:43:01 +0000 (08:43 -0700)
commit0b7f12be0d39e42cce88aa6b78a968d389273d8c
treed6279c9d9d5669c22e31bdcfaa497feec55f609b
parent6175c8fd13cd61d7a17868aed1c332e6e7a855ea
userfaultfd: don't block on the last VM updates at exit time

commit 39680f50ae54cbbb6e72ac38b8329dd3eb9105f4 upstream.

The exit path will do some final updates to the VM of an exiting process
to inform others of the fact that the process is going away.

That happens, for example, for robust futex state cleanup, but also if
the parent has asked for a TID update when the process exits (we clear
the child tid field in user space).

However, at the time we do those final VM accesses, we've already
stopped accepting signals, so the usual "stop waiting for userfaults on
signal" code in fs/userfaultfd.c no longer works, and the process can
become an unkillable zombie waiting for something that will never
happen.

To solve this, just make handle_userfault() abort any user fault
handling if we're already in the exit path past the signal handling
state being dead (marked by PF_EXITING).

This VM special case is pretty ugly, and it is possible that we should
look at finalizing signals later (or move the VM final accesses
earlier).  But in the meantime this is a fairly minimally intrusive fix.

Reported-and-tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/userfaultfd.c