Re: strace lockup when tracing exec in go

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 09/23, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> On Fri 23-09-16 15:21:02, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > This change is simply wrong no matter what.
>
> I've just tried to extend the existing
>
> 	/*
> 	 * Tracers may want to know about even ignored signals.
> 	 */
> 	return !t->ptrace;
>
> but I probably just do not understand what that actually means. I
> thought that the tracer is _really_ interested in hearing about the
> signal.

Yes, the tracer is really interested to know that a signal was sent to
the _tracee_, not the tracer ;)

>
> > We could change do_notify_parent()
> > to call signal_wake_up() if tsk->ptrace, but see above, this won't help.
>
> So does this mean WONTFIX? Can we at least document this behavior? It
> surely is unexpected.

No, no, no. Of course this must be fixed. The only problem is that I still
do not know what should we do. I'll try to return to this problem next week.
I'm afraid we will need to change de_thread() to wait until all other sub-
threads have passed exit_notify() or even exit_signals(), but ooh I don't
like this. Plus in this case we will need to finally define what
PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT should actually do.

Oleg.