Re: Mutual debugging of 2 processes can stuck in unkillable stopped state

Oleg Nesterov
2021-03-29T16:50:10Z

On 03/29, Igor Zhbanov wrote:
>
> Mutual debugging of 2 processes can stuck in unkillable stopped state

can't reproduce and can't understand...

> Hi!
>
> When one process, let's say "A", is tracing the another process "B", and the
> process "B" is trying to attach to the process "A", then both of them are
> getting stuck in the "t+" state. And they are ignoring all of the signals
> including the SIGKILL,

Why do you think so? What is your kernel version?

"t" means TASK_TRACED, SIGKILL should wake it up and terminate.

> so it is not possible to terminate them without
> a reboot.
>
> To reproduce:
> 1) Run two terminals
> 2) Attach with "strace -p ..." from the first terminal to the shell (bash) of
> the second terminal.
> 3) In the second terminal run "exec strace -p ..." to attach to the PID of the
> first strace.
>
> Then you'll see that the second strace is hanging without any output. And the
> first strace will output following and hang too:
> ptrace(PTRACE_SEIZE, 11795, NULL,
> PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD|PTRACE_O_TRACEEXEC|PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT
>
> (The 11795 is the PID of the first strace itself.)
>
> And in the process list you will see following:
> ps awux | grep strace
> user 11776 0.0 0.0 24752 2248 pts/3 t+ 13:53 0:00 strace -p 11795
> user 11795 0.0 0.0 24752 3888 pts/1 t+ 13:54 0:00 strace -p 11776

OK, may be they sleep in PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT? After you tried to send SIGKILL?

please show us the output from "cat /proc/{11795,11776}/stack". And
"cat /proc/{11795,11776}/status" just in case.

Oleg.