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If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Christian Brauner [ Upstream commit 1f978881ce6c9ac4f4d4a7b6a6e52339eadcd350 ] zap_process() skips every thread that already has PF_POSTCOREDUMP set. Such a thread is past synchronize_group_exit(), so a coredump can't catch it anymore. It isn't counted in core_state->threads_remaining and it isn't sent SIGKILL. do_exit() sets PF_POSTCOREDUMP in synchronize_group_exit() and calls io_uring_files_cancel() right after that. The cancellation runs task work and a create_worker_cb() that io-wq queued before the exit creates a new io-wq worker from there. If another thread started a coredump in the meantime that worker joins a thread-group which is already being dumped. zap_process() never saw it so it was never counted. But when it exits it sees signal->core_state in synchronize_group_exit() and decrements threads_remaining like any other thread. So the count reaches zero one thread early and the dumper leaves coredump_wait_inactive() while a thread it counted is still running. The task has no fatal signal pending because zap_process() deliberately didn't send it one, and it never went through get_signal() so it doesn't have PF_SIGNALED either. Refuse to create an io thread when the creator has PF_POSTCOREDUMP. That costs nothing. io_uring_files_cancel() raises IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT before it runs any task work, so a worker created from there only ever gets to exit again, and io_should_retry_thread() doesn't retry -EINTR. Clearing PF_POSTCOREDUMP for the new thread in copy_process() was the other option. It makes the worker a thread like any other, but it only helps while the dump hasn't started. A worker born after zap_process() has run is invisible to it whatever its flags say and still decrements threads_remaining on the way out. Refusing to create it covers both, and then no task is ever born with the flag, so there is nothing to clear. Moving io_uring_files_cancel() ahead of synchronize_group_exit() closes the same window. It runs the cancellation, and whatever that can block on, before the thread announces itself to the dumper. A thread that blocks there never reaches coredump_task_exit() at all, so the dumper ends up waiting for a thread that never parks. Refusing the creation leaves the cancellation where it is. But it's very ugly to run io_uring work even before we did all the generic exit work. Fixes: 92307383082d ("coredump: Don't perform any cleanups before dumping core") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260921-work-coredump-fixes-v3-14-8e4adb1619e6@kernel.org Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- kernel/fork.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index c82956f8fc9d5..140a615daf42e 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -2774,8 +2774,8 @@ struct task_struct *create_io_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, int node) .user_worker = 1, }; - /* A creator past its fatal signal gets no thread. */ - if (current->flags & PF_SIGNALED) + /* A creator past its fatal signal or its coredump point gets no thread. */ + if (current->flags & (PF_SIGNALED | PF_POSTCOREDUMP)) return ERR_PTR(-EINTR); return copy_process(NULL, 0, node, &args); -- 2.53.0