Re: [PATCH] io_thread/x86: don't reset 'cs', 'ss', 'ds' and 'es' registers for io_threads

Olivier Langlois
2021-05-25T19:40:02Z

On Fri, 2021-05-21 at 03:31 -0400, Olivier Langlois wrote:
>
> However, I can reproduce it at will with my real program. So as Linus
> has suggested, I'll investigate by searching where the PF_IO_WORKER is
> used.
>
> I'll keep the list updated if I discover something.
>
I think that I am about to stumble into the key to unravel the mystery
of my core dump generation issue. I am going ask you a quick question
and it is very likely to trigger an ahah moment...

To what value is the task_struct mm field is set to for the io-wkr
threads?

If I look in the create_io_thread() function, I can see that CLONE_VM
isn't set...

There are still some fuzzy areas in my io_uring inner design
understanding but I would think that the io-wrk threads must use the
user process mm at some point in order to be able to fill in the user
provided buffers...

This notion appears to be central when creating a coredump...
Only tasks having the same mm than the one receiving the SIGSEGV will
be zapped...

in zap_threads():
for_each_thread(g, p) {
if (unlikely(!p->mm))
continue;
if (unlikely(p->mm == mm)) {
lock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
nr += zap_process(p, exit_code,
SIGNAL_GROUP_E
XIT);
unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
}
break;
}