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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, palves@redhat.com,
	Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>,
	syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unkillable processes due to PTRACE_TRACEME again
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 11:46:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161205104652.GA29197@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACT4Y+ZnT3ngSvbs=U8=41TAMpaS8YqbVb7KdiK9QTM7Jd+JgA@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/02, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>
> I am not on 2caceb3294a78c389b462e7e236a4e744a53a474 (Dec 1). And see
> the same unwaitable zombie processes.

This is another thing, and notabug. This is how ptrace works,

> void *thr(void *arg)
> {
>   ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, 0, 0);
> }
>
> int main()
> {
>   int pid = fork();
>   if (pid == 0) {
>     pthread_t th;
>     pthread_create(&th, 0, thr, 0);
>     usleep(100000);
>     exit(0);
>   }
>   usleep(200000);
>   kill(pid, SIGKILL);
>   int status = 0;
>   waitpid(pid, &status, __WALL);

waitpid(pid) hangs because you need to reap the sub-thread first.

Oleg.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-12-05 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-02 18:48 Unkillable processes due to PTRACE_TRACEME again Dmitry Vyukov
2016-12-02 21:02 ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-03 15:55   ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-12-03 19:11     ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-05 10:46 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2016-12-05 11:00   ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-12-05 14:07     ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-12-05 16:59       ` Oleg Nesterov

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