[CRIU] [PATCH] restore: helpers and zombies should collect their children

Pavel Emelyanov xemul at virtuozzo.com
Sun Mar 20 23:44:02 PDT 2016


On 03/17/2016 05:05 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> Consider when there is a double fork of helpers or zombies, e.g. when a
> zombie has a session id which doesn't match its pid.

That's the

task
 `- helper
     `- zombie

case.

> If the child dies and
> exits before the grandchild, the grandchild reparents to init, and when the
> task dies init doesn't have it in the helper list, so init dies as well,
> viz. the log below.
> 
> 
> Let's have the zombies and helpers reap their children before they exit to
> avoid this.

But how about

task
 `- zombie
     `- helper

one? How can _this_ happen?

And some more comments inline.

> v2: block SIGCHLD when waiting on helpers so that it doesn't race with the
>     SICGHLD handler
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen at canonical.com>
> ---
> Full log is available at: http://paste.ubuntu.com/15396732/
> ---
>  criu/cr-restore.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/criu/cr-restore.c b/criu/cr-restore.c
> index 30ddff9..7c03190 100644
> --- a/criu/cr-restore.c
> +++ b/criu/cr-restore.c
> @@ -972,6 +972,46 @@ static inline int sig_fatal(int sig)
>  struct task_entries *task_entries;
>  static unsigned long task_entries_pos;
>  
> +static int wait_on_helpers_zombies(void)
> +{
> +	struct pstree_item *pi;
> +	sigset_t blockmask, oldmask;
> +
> +	sigemptyset(&blockmask);
> +	sigaddset(&blockmask, SIGCHLD);
> +
> +	if (sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &blockmask, &oldmask) == -1) {
> +		pr_perror("Can not set mask of blocked signals");
> +		return -1;
> +	}
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry(pi, &current->children, sibling) {
> +		pid_t pid = pi->pid.virt;
> +		int status;
> +
> +		switch (pi->state) {
> +		case TASK_DEAD:
> +			if (waitid(P_PID, pid, NULL, WNOWAIT | WEXITED) < 0) {

Why P_PID?

> +				pr_perror("Wait on %d zombie failed\n", pid);
> +				return -1;
> +			}
> +			futex_dec_and_wake(&task_entries->nr_in_progress);

Hasn't the dead guy decremented this value himself?

> +		case TASK_HELPER:
> +			if (waitpid(pid, &status, 0) != pid) {
> +				pr_perror("waitpid for helper %d failed", pid);
> +				return -1;
> +			}
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	if (sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &oldmask, NULL) == -1) {
> +		pr_perror("Can not unset mask of blocked signals");
> +		BUG();
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static int restore_one_zombie(CoreEntry *core)
>  {
>  	int exit_code = core->tc->exit_code;
> @@ -985,6 +1025,8 @@ static int restore_one_zombie(CoreEntry *core)
>  
>  	if (task_entries != NULL) {
>  		restore_finish_stage(CR_STATE_RESTORE);
> +		if (wait_on_helpers_zombies())
> +			pr_err("failed to wait on helpers and zombies\n");
>  		zombie_prepare_signals();
>  	}
>  
> @@ -1057,7 +1099,12 @@ static int restore_one_task(int pid, CoreEntry *core)
>  		ret = restore_one_zombie(core);
>  	else if (current->state == TASK_HELPER) {
>  		restore_finish_stage(CR_STATE_RESTORE);
> -		ret = 0;
> +		if (wait_on_helpers_zombies()) {
> +			pr_err("failed to wait on helpers and zombies\n");
> +			ret = -1;
> +		} else {
> +			ret = 0;
> +		}
>  	} else {
>  		pr_err("Unknown state in code %d\n", (int)core->tc->task_state);
>  		ret = -1;
> 



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