job control: Fix ptracer wait(2) hang and explain notask_error clearing
wait(2) and friends allow access to stopped/continued states through zombies, which is required as the states are process-wide and should be accessible whether the leader task is alive or undead. wait_consider_task() implements this by always clearing notask_error and going through wait_task_stopped/continued() for unreaped zombies. However, while ptraced, the stopped state is per-task and as such if the ptracee became a zombie, there's no further stopped event to listen to and wait(2) and friends should return -ECHILD on the tracee. Fix it by clearing notask_error only if WCONTINUED | WEXITED is set for ptraced zombies. While at it, document why clearing notask_error is safe for each case. Test case follows. #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <pthread.h> #include <time.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/ptrace.h> #include <sys/wait.h> static void *nooper(void *arg) { pause(); return NULL; } int main(void) { const struct timespec ts1s = { .tv_sec = 1 }; pid_t tracee, tracer; siginfo_t si; tracee = fork(); if (tracee == 0) { pthread_t thr; pthread_create(&thr, NULL, nooper, NULL); nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL); printf("tracee exiting\n"); pthread_exit(NULL); /* let subthread run */ } tracer = fork(); if (tracer == 0) { ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, tracee, NULL, NULL); while (1) { if (waitid(P_PID, tracee, &si, WSTOPPED) < 0) { perror("waitid"); break; } ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL, (void *)(long)si.si_status); } return 0; } waitid(P_PID, tracer, &si, WEXITED); kill(tracee, SIGKILL); return 0; } Before the patch, after the tracee becomes a zombie, the tracer's waitid(WSTOPPED) never returns and the program doesn't terminate. tracee exiting ^C After the patch, tracee exiting triggers waitid() to fail. tracee exiting waitid: No child processes -v2: Oleg pointed out that exited in addition to continued can happen for ptraced dead group leader. Clear notask_error for ptraced child on WEXITED too. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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