Patch "coredump: fix unfreezable coredumping task" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    coredump: fix unfreezable coredumping task

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     coredump-fix-unfreezable-coredumping-task.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 70d78fe7c8b640b5acfad56ad341985b3810998a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:46:38 -0800
Subject: coredump: fix unfreezable coredumping task

From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>

commit 70d78fe7c8b640b5acfad56ad341985b3810998a upstream.

It could be not possible to freeze coredumping task when it waits for
'core_state->startup' completion, because threads are frozen in
get_signal() before they got a chance to complete 'core_state->startup'.

Inability to freeze a task during suspend will cause suspend to fail.
Also CRIU uses cgroup freezer during dump operation.  So with an
unfreezable task the CRIU dump will fail because it waits for a
transition from 'FREEZING' to 'FROZEN' state which will never happen.

Use freezer_do_not_count() to tell freezer to ignore coredumping task
while it waits for core_state->startup completion.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475225434-3753-1-git-send-email-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/coredump.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/coredump.c
+++ b/fs/coredump.c
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/file.h>
 #include <linux/fdtable.h>
+#include <linux/freezer.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/stat.h>
 #include <linux/fcntl.h>
@@ -399,7 +400,9 @@ static int coredump_wait(int exit_code,
 	if (core_waiters > 0) {
 		struct core_thread *ptr;
 
+		freezer_do_not_count();
 		wait_for_completion(&core_state->startup);
+		freezer_count();
 		/*
 		 * Wait for all the threads to become inactive, so that
 		 * all the thread context (extended register state, like


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aryabinin@virtuozzo.com are

queue-4.4/coredump-fix-unfreezable-coredumping-task.patch