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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, vda.linux@googlemail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, indan@nul.nu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] job control: reorganize wait_task_stopped()
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 19:25:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110512172506.GA23033@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110512160253.GK1030@htj.dyndns.org>

On 05/12, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 05:42:47PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 05/11, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > >
> > > > Can't we push this patch ahead of these changes? I can merge it into
> > > > ptrace branch.
> > >
> > > It doesn't really fix the problem tho.  The whole thing is full of
> > > holes
> >
> > Hmm. Could you explain?  (unless you mean ptrace holes)
>
> I meant other cases, RUNNING -> STOPPED and EXIT_* transitions.
> Sleeping wait(2) is reliable without grabbing siglock thanks to
> setting TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE on start and events waking up the waiter
> after updating the state, so wait(2) is guaranteed to check the states
> at least once after change actually has happened.
>
> WNOHANG disables that mechanism.

Yes, this is clear. WNOHANG can "race" with the transitions above.
But we do not care, this is like reading the word which can be
changed by another thread, no?

But this bug is different. Say, the parent does wait(WNOWAIT) and
gets CLD_STOPPED. After that it has all rights to assume that
wait(WNOHANG) must report either STOPPED or CONTINUED.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-12 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-08 15:48 [PATCHSET ptrace] ptrace: implement PTRACE_SEIZE/INTERRUPT and group stop notification Tejun Heo
2011-05-08 15:48 ` [PATCH 01/11] job control: rename signal->group_stop and flags to jobctl and rearrange flags Tejun Heo
2011-05-08 15:48 ` [PATCH 02/11] ptrace: implement PTRACE_SEIZE Tejun Heo
2011-05-09 16:18   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-10  9:46     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-10 13:20       ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-10 13:47         ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-10 18:19           ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-15 15:56   ` PTRACE_SEIZE should not stop [Re: [PATCH 02/11] ptrace: implement PTRACE_SEIZE] Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-15 16:26     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-15 17:15       ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-15 17:25         ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-15 19:48           ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-16  8:31             ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-16 12:26               ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-16 12:42                 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-16 13:03                   ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-16 13:51                     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-16 13:21               ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-16 13:45                 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-16 13:48                   ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-16 13:54                     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-08 15:48 ` [PATCH 03/11] ptrace: ptrace_check_attach(): rename @kill to @ignore_state and add comments Tejun Heo
2011-05-08 15:48 ` [PATCH 04/11] ptrace: implement PTRACE_INTERRUPT Tejun Heo
2011-05-08 21:58   ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-05-09 10:09     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-09 10:55       ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-05-09 16:58   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-10  9:50     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-10 14:06       ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-10 14:20         ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-10 18:08           ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-11  8:29             ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-12 17:06               ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-12 17:21                 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-10 21:59         ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-05-11  9:19           ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-11 12:23             ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-05-11 13:22               ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-11 16:20                 ` Bryan Donlan
2011-05-11 19:24                   ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-15 16:10             ` PTRACE_DETACH without stop [Re: [PATCH 04/11] ptrace: implement PTRACE_INTERRUPT] Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-15 16:35               ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-15 17:39                 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-16  9:01                   ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-16 12:08                     ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-16 12:24                       ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-08 15:48 ` [PATCH 05/11] ptrace: restructure ptrace_getsiginfo() Tejun Heo
2011-05-08 15:49 ` [PATCH 06/11] ptrace: make group stop state visible via PTRACE_GETSIGINFO Tejun Heo
2011-05-10 16:55   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-10 17:11     ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-11  8:08     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-12 16:47       ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-12 17:15         ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-08 15:49 ` [PATCH 07/11] ptrace: add JOBCTL_TRAPPED Tejun Heo
2011-05-08 15:49 ` [PATCH 08/11] ptrace: move fallback JOBCTL_TRAPPING clearing to get_signal_to_deliver() Tejun Heo
2011-05-11 15:48   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-11 19:17     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-12 15:40       ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-08 15:49 ` [PATCH 09/11] job control: reorganize wait_task_stopped() Tejun Heo
2011-05-11 15:48   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-11 19:29     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-12 15:42       ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-12 16:02         ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-12 17:25           ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2011-05-12 17:32             ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-12 17:33               ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-12 18:33               ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-13  8:46                 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-13 17:21                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-14 10:56                     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-15 14:40               ` waitpid(WNOHANG) should report SIGCHLD-notified signals [Re: [PATCH 09/11] job control: reorganize wait_task_stopped()] Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-15 16:47                 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-15 17:01                   ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-15 17:47                   ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-16  9:13                     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-16 12:11                       ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-16 12:27                         ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-16 12:39                           ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-16 12:46                             ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-08 15:49 ` [PATCH 10/11] ptrace: move JOBCTL_TRAPPING wait to wait(2) and ptrace_check_attach() Tejun Heo
2011-05-11 16:49   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-11 17:00     ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-11 19:45       ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-11 19:53     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-12 10:23       ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-12 16:06         ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-12 15:59       ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-12 16:07         ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-12 18:20           ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-13  9:13             ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-13 18:34               ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-08 15:49 ` [PATCH 11/11] ptrace: implement group stop notification for ptracer Tejun Heo
2011-05-08 22:42   ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-05-09 10:10     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-10 22:37   ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-05-11  9:05     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-11 12:01       ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-05-11 13:13         ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-11 19:58   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-11 20:18     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-11 20:21       ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-12 10:24         ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-15 14:02   ` getter PTRACE_GETSIGINFO should not modify anything [Re: [PATCH 11/11] ptrace: implement group stop notification for ptracer] Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-15 14:28     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-15 17:17       ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-15 17:28         ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-15 20:06           ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-16  8:43             ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-16 12:17               ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-16 12:56                 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-16 13:00                   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-08 22:27 ` [PATCHSET ptrace] ptrace: implement PTRACE_SEIZE/INTERRUPT and group stop notification Denys Vlasenko
2011-05-09  9:48   ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-15 13:55   ` ptrace-testsuite status [Re: [PATCHSET ptrace] ptrace: implement PTRACE_SEIZE/INTERRUPT and group stop notification] Jan Kratochvil

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