[PATCH stable-3.0] ptrace: don't clear GROUP_STOP_SIGMASK ondouble-stop

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Sep 26 2011 - 13:35:08 EST


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740121

1. Luke Macken triggered WARN_ON(!(group_stop & GROUP_STOP_SIGMASK))
in do_signal_stop().

This is because do_signal_stop() clears GROUP_STOP_SIGMASK part
unconditionally but doesn't update it if task_is_stopped().

2. Looking at this problem I noticed that WARN_ON_ONCE(!ptrace) is
not right, a stopped-but-resumed tracee can clone the untraced
thread in the SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED group, the new thread can start
another group-stop.

Remove this warning, we need more fixes to make it true.

Reported-by: Luke Macken <lmacken@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

--- 3.0/kernel/signal.c
+++ 3.0/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1894,21 +1894,19 @@ static int do_signal_stop(int signr)
*/
if (!(sig->flags & SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED))
sig->group_exit_code = signr;
- else
- WARN_ON_ONCE(!task_ptrace(current));

current->group_stop &= ~GROUP_STOP_SIGMASK;
current->group_stop |= signr | gstop;
sig->group_stop_count = 1;
for (t = next_thread(current); t != current;
t = next_thread(t)) {
- t->group_stop &= ~GROUP_STOP_SIGMASK;
/*
* Setting state to TASK_STOPPED for a group
* stop is always done with the siglock held,
* so this check has no races.
*/
if (!(t->flags & PF_EXITING) && !task_is_stopped(t)) {
+ t->group_stop &= ~GROUP_STOP_SIGMASK;
t->group_stop |= signr | gstop;
sig->group_stop_count++;
signal_wake_up(t, 0);

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