Re: [PATCH 1/8] signal: Make SIGKILL during coredumps an explicit special case

[Eric W. Biederman]

Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 11.01.2022 20:20, Eric W. Biederman пишет:
>> Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>>> 08.01.2022 21:13, Eric W. Biederman пишет:
>>>> Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> 05.01.2022 22:58, Eric W. Biederman пишет:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have not yet been able to figure out how to run gst-pluggin-scanner in
>>>>>> a way that triggers this yet.  In truth I can't figure out how to
>>>>>> run gst-pluggin-scanner in a useful way.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am going to set up some unit tests and see if I can reproduce your
>>>>>> hang another way, but if you could give me some more information on what
>>>>>> you are doing to trigger this I would appreciate it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, Eric. The distro is Arch Linux, but it's a development
>>>>> environment where I'm running latest GStreamer from git master. I'll try
>>>>> to figure out the reproduction steps and get back to you.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> Until I can figure out why this is causing problems I have dropped the
>>>> following two patches from my queue:
>>>>  signal: Make SIGKILL during coredumps an explicit special case
>>>>  signal: Drop signals received after a fatal signal has been processed
>>>>
>>>> I have replaced them with the following two patches that just do what
>>>> is needed for the rest of the code in the series:
>>>>  signal: Have prepare_signal detect coredumps using
>>>>  signal: Make coredump handling explicit in complete_signal
>>>>
>>>> Perversely my failure to change the SIGKILL handling when coredumps are
>>>> happening proves to me that I need to change the SIGKILL handling when
>>>> coredumps are happening to make the code more maintainable.
>>>
>>> Eric, thank you again. I started to look at the reproduction steps and
>>> haven't completed it yet. Turned out the problem affects only older
>>> NVIDIA Tegra2 Cortex-A9 CPU that lacks support of ARM NEON instructions
>>> set, hence the problem isn't visible on x86 and other CPUs out of the
>>> box. I'll need to check whether the problem could be simulated on all
>>> arches or maybe it's specific to VFP exception handling of ARM32.
>> 
>> It sounds like the gstreamer plugins only fail on certain hardware on
>> arm32, and things don't hang in coredumps unless the plugins fail.
>> That does make things tricky to minimize.
>> 
>> I have just verified that the known problematic code is not
>> in linux-next for Jan 11 2022.
>> 
>> If folks as they have time can double check linux-next and verify all is
>> well I would appreciate it.  I don't expect that there are problems but
>> sometimes one problem hides another.
>
> Hello Eric,
>
> I reproduced the trouble on x86_64.
>
> Here are the reproduction steps, using ArchLinux and linux-next-20211224:
>
> ```
> sudo pacman -S base-devel git mesa glu meson wget
> git clone https://github.com/grate-driver/gstreamer.git
> cd gstreamer
> git checkout sigill
> meson --prefix=/usr -Dgst-plugins-base:playback=enabled -Dgst-devtools:validate=disabled build
> cd build
> sudo ninja install
> wget https://www.peach.themazzone.com/big_buck_bunny_720p_h264.mov
> rm -r ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0
> gst-play-1.0 ./big_buck_bunny_720p_h264.mov
> ```
>
> The SIGILL, thrown by [1], causes the hang. There is no hang using v5.16.1 kernel. 
>
> [1] https://github.com/grate-driver/gstreamer/commit/006f9a2ee6dcf7b31c9b5413815d6054d82a3b2f

Thank you.

I will verify this works before I add my updated version to
my signal-for-v5.18 branch.

Have you by any chance tried a newer version of linux-next without
commit fbc11520b58a ("signal: Make SIGKILL during coredumps an explicit
special case") in it?

If not I will double check that my pulling the commit out does not break
in the case you have documented.

Eric