[PATCH v4 0/2] prctl: make PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER deterministic

[PATCH v4 0/2] prctl: make PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER deterministic

[Pavel Tikhomirov]

Oleg Nesterov (1):
  introduce the walk_process_tree() helper

Pavel Tikhomirov (1):
  prctl: propagate has_child_subreaper flag to every descendant

 include/linux/sched.h |  3 +++
 kernel/fork.c         | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 kernel/sys.c          | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

-- 
2.9.3

[PATCH 1/2] introduce the walk_process_tree() helper

[Pavel Tikhomirov]

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

Add the new helper to walk the process tree, the next patch adds a user.
Note that it visits the group leaders only, proc_visitor can do
for_each_thread itself or we can trivially extend walk_process_tree() to
do this.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
---
 include/linux/sched.h |  3 +++
 kernel/fork.c         | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index ad3ec9e..7f8ab91 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -3067,6 +3067,9 @@ extern bool current_is_single_threaded(void);
 #define for_each_process_thread(p, t)	\
 	for_each_process(p) for_each_thread(p, t)
 
+typedef int (*proc_visitor)(struct task_struct *p, void *data);
+void walk_process_tree(struct task_struct *top, proc_visitor, void *);
+
 static inline int get_nr_threads(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	return tsk->signal->nr_threads;
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 11c5c8a..135b7a4 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2053,6 +2053,38 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(clone, unsigned long, clone_flags, unsigned long, newsp,
 }
 #endif
 
+void walk_process_tree(struct task_struct *top, proc_visitor visitor, void *data)
+{
+	struct task_struct *leader, *parent, *child;
+	int res;
+
+	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	leader = top = top->group_leader;
+down:
+	for_each_thread(leader, parent) {
+		list_for_each_entry(child, &parent->children, sibling) {
+			res = visitor(child, data);
+			if (res) {
+				if (res < 0)
+					goto out;
+				leader = child;
+				goto down;
+			}
+up:
+			;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (leader != top) {
+		child = leader;
+		parent = child->real_parent;
+		leader = parent->group_leader;
+		goto up;
+	}
+out:
+	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+}
+
 #ifndef ARCH_MIN_MMSTRUCT_ALIGN
 #define ARCH_MIN_MMSTRUCT_ALIGN 0
 #endif
-- 
2.9.3

[PATCH v4 2/2] prctl: propagate has_child_subreaper flag to every descendant

[Pavel Tikhomirov]

If process forks some children when it has is_child_subreaper
flag enabled they will inherit has_child_subreaper flag - first
group, when is_child_subreaper is disabled forked children will
not inherit it - second group. So child-subreaper does not reparent
all his descendants when their parents die. Having these two
differently behaving groups can lead to confusion. Also it is
a problem for CRIU, as when we restore process tree we need to
somehow determine which descendants belong to which group and
much harder - to put them exactly to these group.

To simplify these we can add a propagation of has_child_subreaper
flag on PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER, walking all descendants of child-
subreaper to setup has_child_subreaper flag.

In common cases when process like systemd first sets itself to
be a child-subreaper and only after that forks its services, we will
have zero-length list of descendants to walk. Testing with binary
subtree of 2^15 processes prctl took < 0.007 sec and has shown close
to linear dependency(~0.2 * n * usec) on lower numbers of processes.

Moreover, I doubt someone intentionaly pre-forks the children whitch
should reparent to init before becoming subreaper, because some our
ancestor migh have had is_child_subreaper flag while forking our
sub-tree and our childs will all inherit has_child_subreaper flag,
and we have no way to influence it. And only way to check if we have
no has_child_subreaper flag is to create some childs, kill them and
see where they will reparent to.

Using walk_process_tree helper to walk subtree, thanks to Oleg! Timing
seems to be the same.

Optimize:

a) When descendant already has has_child_subreaper flag all his subtree
has it too already.

* for a) to be true need to move has_child_subreaper inheritance under
the same tasklist_lock with adding task to its ->real_parent->children
as without it process can inherit zero has_child_subreaper, then we
set 1 to it's parent flag, check that parent has no more children, and
only after child with wrong flag is added to the tree.

* Also make these inheritance more clear by using real_parent instead of
current, as on clone(CLONE_PARENT) if current has is_child_subreaper
and real_parent has no is_child_subreaper or has_child_subreaper, child
will have has_child_subreaper flag set without actually having a
subreaper in it's ancestors.

b) When some descendant is child_reaper, it's subtree is in different
pidns from us(original child-subreaper) and processes from other pidns
will never reparent to us.

So we can skip their(a,b) subtree from walk.

v2: switch to walk_process_tree() general helper, move
has_child_subreaper inheritance
v3: remove csr_descendant leftover, change current to real_parent
in has_child_subreaper inheritance
v4: small commit message fix

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
---
 kernel/fork.c | 10 +++++++---
 kernel/sys.c  | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 135b7a4..c814e59 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1367,9 +1367,6 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	sig->oom_score_adj = current->signal->oom_score_adj;
 	sig->oom_score_adj_min = current->signal->oom_score_adj_min;
 
-	sig->has_child_subreaper = current->signal->has_child_subreaper ||
-				   current->signal->is_child_subreaper;
-
 	mutex_init(&sig->cred_guard_mutex);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -1800,6 +1797,13 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 
 			p->signal->leader_pid = pid;
 			p->signal->tty = tty_kref_get(current->signal->tty);
+			/*
+			 * Inherit has_child_subreaper flag under the same
+			 * tasklist_lock with adding child to the process tree
+			 * for propagate_has_child_subreaper optimization.
+			 */
+			p->signal->has_child_subreaper = p->real_parent->signal->has_child_subreaper ||
+							 p->real_parent->signal->is_child_subreaper;
 			list_add_tail(&p->sibling, &p->real_parent->children);
 			list_add_tail_rcu(&p->tasks, &init_task.tasks);
 			attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PGID);
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 842914e..0e4d566 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -2063,6 +2063,24 @@ static int prctl_get_tid_address(struct task_struct *me, int __user **tid_addr)
 }
 #endif
 
+static int propagate_has_child_subreaper(struct task_struct *p, void *data)
+{
+	/*
+	 * If task has has_child_subreaper - all its decendants
+	 * already have these flag too and new decendants will
+	 * inherit it on fork, skip them.
+	 *
+	 * If we've found child_reaper - skip descendants in
+	 * it's subtree as they will never get out pidns.
+	 */
+	if (p->signal->has_child_subreaper ||
+	    is_child_reaper(task_pid(p)))
+		return 0;
+
+	p->signal->has_child_subreaper = 1;
+	return 1;
+}
+
 SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3,
 		unsigned long, arg4, unsigned long, arg5)
 {
@@ -2214,6 +2232,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3,
 		break;
 	case PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER:
 		me->signal->is_child_subreaper = !!arg2;
+		if (!arg2)
+			break;
+
+		walk_process_tree(me, propagate_has_child_subreaper, NULL);
 		break;
 	case PR_GET_CHILD_SUBREAPER:
 		error = put_user(me->signal->is_child_subreaper,
-- 
2.9.3

Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] prctl: propagate has_child_subreaper flag to every descendant

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 01/30, Pavel Tikhomirov wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
> ---
>  kernel/fork.c | 10 +++++++---
>  kernel/sys.c  | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>