reparent_leader() reuses ->sibling as a list node to add an EXIT_DEAD task
into dead_children list we are going to release. This obviously removes
the dead task from its real_parent->children list and this is even good;
the parent can do nothing with the EXIT_DEAD reparented zombie, it only
makes do_wait() slower.
But, this also means that it can not be reparented once again, so if its
new parent dies too nobody will update ->parent/real_parent, they can
point to the freed memory even before release_task() we are going to call,
this breaks the code which relies on pid_alive() to access
->real_parent/parent.
Fortunately this is mostly theoretical, this can only happen if init or
PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER process ignores SIGCHLD and the new parent
sub-thread exits right after we drop tasklist_lock.
Change this code to use ->ptrace_entry instead, we know that the child is
not traced so nobody can ever use this member. This also allows to unify
this logic with exit_ptrace(), see the next changes.
Note: we really need to change release_task() to nullify real_parent/
parent/group_leader pointers, but we need to change the current users
first somehow. And it would be better to reap this zombie immediately but
release_task_locked() we need is complicated by proc_flush_task().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Cc: Sterling Alexander <stalexan@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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