Re: [PATCH v4 12/12] sched,signal,ptrace: Rework TASK_TRACED, TASK_STOPPED state

Eric W. Biederman
2022-06-28T22:42:22Z

Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 11:34:46AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> I haven't gotten as far as reproducing this but I have started giving
>> this issue some thought.
>>
>> This entire thing smells like a memory barrier is missing somewhere.
>> However by definition the lock implementations in linux provide all the
>> needed memory barriers, and in the ptrace_stop and ptrace_check_attach
>> path I don't see cases where these values are sampled outside of a lock
>> except in wait_task_inactive. Does doing that perhaps require a
>> barrier?
>>
>> The two things I can think of that could shed light on what is going on
>> is enabling lockdep, to enable the debug check in signal_wake_up_state
>> and verifying bits of state that should be constant while the task
>> is frozen for ptrace are indeed constant when task is frozen for ptrace.
>> Something like my patch below.
>>
>> If you could test that when you have a chance that would help narrow
>> down what is going on.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Eric
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
>> index 156a99283b11..6467a2b1c3bc 100644
>> --- a/kernel/ptrace.c
>> +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
>> @@ -268,9 +268,13 @@ static int ptrace_check_attach(struct task_struct *child, bool ignore_state)
>> }
>> read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
>>
>> - if (!ret && !ignore_state &&
>> - WARN_ON_ONCE(!wait_task_inactive(child, __TASK_TRACED)))
>> + if (!ret && !ignore_state) {
>> + WARN_ON_ONCE(!(child->jobctl & JOBCTL_PTRACE_FROZEN));
>> + WARN_ON_ONCE(!(child->joctctl & JOBCTL_TRACED));
>> + WARN_ON_ONCE(READ_ONCE(child->__state) != __TASK_TRACED);
>> + WARN_ON_ONCE(!wait_task_inactive(child, __TASK_TRACED));
>> ret = -ESRCH;
>> + }
>>
>> return ret;
>> }
>
> I modified your chunk a bit - hope that is what you had in mind:

Yes.

> diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
> index 156a99283b11..f0e9a9a4d63c 100644
> --- a/kernel/ptrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
> @@ -268,9 +268,19 @@ static int ptrace_check_attach(struct task_struct *child, bool ignore_state)
> }
> read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
>
> - if (!ret && !ignore_state &&
> - WARN_ON_ONCE(!wait_task_inactive(child, __TASK_TRACED)))
> - ret = -ESRCH;
> + if (!ret && !ignore_state) {
> + unsigned int __state;
> +
> + WARN_ON_ONCE(!(child->jobctl & JOBCTL_PTRACE_FROZEN));
> + WARN_ON_ONCE(!(child->jobctl & JOBCTL_TRACED));
> + __state = READ_ONCE(child->__state);
> + if (__state != __TASK_TRACED) {
> + pr_err("%s(%d) __state %x", __FUNCTION__, __LINE__, __state);
> + WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> + }
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!wait_task_inactive(child, __TASK_TRACED)))
> + ret = -ESRCH;
> + }
>
> return ret;
> }
>
>
> When WARN_ON_ONCE(1) hits the child __state is always zero/TASK_RUNNING,
> as reported by the preceding pr_err(). Yet, in the resulting core dump
> it is always __TASK_TRACED.

Did you enable CONFIG_LOCKDEP? I am just wanting to ensure
that every caller of signal_wake_up_state was holding siglock.

> Removing WARN_ON_ONCE(1) while looping until (__state != __TASK_TRACED)
> confirms the unexpected __state is always TASK_RUNNING. It never observed
> more than one iteration and gets printed once in 30-60 mins.

Hmm. This does smell lock a missing barrier.

> So probably when the condition is entered __state is TASK_RUNNING more
> often, but gets overwritten with __TASK_TRACED pretty quickly. Which kind
> of consistent with my previous observation that kernel/sched/core.c:3305
> is where return 0 makes wait_task_inactive() fail.
>
> No other WARN_ON_ONCE() hit ever.

Yes. This smells like something is missing.

I am completely rusty at rolling barriers by hand but does something
like the below clear up those mysterious warnings?

diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 156a99283b11..cb85bcf84640 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ static bool ptrace_freeze_traced(struct task_struct *task)
spin_lock_irq(&task->sighand->siglock);
if (task_is_traced(task) && !looks_like_a_spurious_pid(task) &&
!__fatal_signal_pending(task)) {
+ smp_rmb();
task->jobctl |= JOBCTL_PTRACE_FROZEN;
ret = true;
}
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index edb1dc9b00dc..bcd576e9de66 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2233,6 +2233,7 @@ static int ptrace_stop(int exit_code, int why, unsigned long message,
return exit_code;

set_special_state(TASK_TRACED);
+ smp_wmb();
current->jobctl |= JOBCTL_TRACED;

/*

Eric