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From: [email protected] (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Olivier Langlois <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	linux-fsdevel <[email protected]>,
	io-uring <[email protected]>,
	Alexander Viro <[email protected]>,
	Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
	"Pavel Begunkov\>" <[email protected]>,
	Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [RFC] coredump: Do not interrupt dump for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 09:26:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmwt6biw.fsf@disp2133> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> (Olivier Langlois's message of "Wed, 09 Jun 2021 17:26:30 -0400")

Olivier Langlois <[email protected]> writes:

> On Wed, 2021-06-09 at 16:05 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> > 
>> > So the TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL does get set WHILE the core dump is
>> > written.
>> 
>> Did you mean?
>> 
>> So the TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL does _not_ get set WHILE the core dump is
>> written.
>> 
>> 
> Absolutely not. I did really mean what I have said. Bear with me that,
> I am not qualifying myself as an expert kernel dev yet so feel free to
> correct me if I say some heresy...

No.  I was just asking to make certain I understood what you said.

I thought you said you were getting a consistent 0 byte coredump,
and that implied that TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL was coming in before
the coredump even started.

> io_uring is placing my task in my TCP socket wait queue because it
> wants to read data from it.
>
> The task returns to user space and core dump with a SEGV.
>
> now my understanding is that the code that is waking up tasks, it is
> the NIC driver interrupt handler which can occur while the core dump is
> written.
>
> does that make sense?
>
> my testing is telling me that this is exactly what happens...

If you are getting partial coredumps that completely makes sense.



I was hoping that by this time Jens or Oleg would have been able to
chime in and at least confirm I am not missing something subtle.

I was afraid for a little bit that the file system code in called in
dump_emit would be checking signal_pending.  After looking into that I
see that the filesystem code very reasonably limits itself to testing
fatal_signal_pending (because by definition disk I/O on unix is not
interruptible).

So I will spin up a good version of my patch (based on your patch)
so we can unbreak coredumps.

Eric


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-10 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <[email protected]>
     [not found] ` <[email protected]>
     [not found]   ` <87h7i694ij.fsf_-_@disp2133>
2021-06-09 20:33     ` [RFC] coredump: Do not interrupt dump for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL Linus Torvalds
2021-06-09 20:48       ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-09 20:52         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-09 21:02       ` Olivier Langlois
2021-06-09 21:05         ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-09 21:26           ` Olivier Langlois
2021-06-09 21:56             ` Olivier Langlois
2021-06-10 14:26             ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2021-06-10 15:17               ` Olivier Langlois
2021-06-10 18:58               ` [CFT}[PATCH] coredump: Limit what can interrupt coredumps Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-10 19:10                 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-10 19:18                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-10 19:50                     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-10 20:11                       ` [PATCH] " Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-10 21:04                         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-12 14:36                         ` Olivier Langlois
2021-06-12 16:26                           ` Jens Axboe
2021-06-14 14:10                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2021-06-14 16:37                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-14 16:59                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2021-06-15 22:08                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-16 19:23                             ` Olivier Langlois
2021-06-16 20:00                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-18 20:05                                 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-08-05 13:06                             ` Olivier Langlois
2021-08-10 21:48                               ` Tony Battersby
2021-08-11 20:47                                 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-08-12  1:55                                 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-12 13:53                                   ` Tony Battersby
2021-08-15 20:42                                   ` Olivier Langlois
2021-08-16 13:02                                     ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-08-16 13:06                                       ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-08-17 18:15                                     ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-17 18:24                                       ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-17 19:29                                         ` Tony Battersby
2021-08-17 19:59                                           ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-17 21:28                                             ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-17 21:39                                               ` Tony Battersby
2021-08-17 22:05                                                 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-18 14:37                                                   ` Tony Battersby
2021-08-18 14:46                                                     ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-18  2:57                                               ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-18  2:58                                                 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-21 10:08                                                 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-08-21 16:47                                                   ` Olivier Langlois
2021-08-21 16:51                                                     ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-21 17:21                                                       ` Olivier Langlois
2021-08-21  9:52                                         ` Olivier Langlois
2021-08-21  9:48                                       ` Olivier Langlois
2021-10-22 14:13     ` [RFC] coredump: Do not interrupt dump for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL Pavel Begunkov
2021-12-24  1:34       ` Olivier Langlois
2021-12-24 10:37         ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-12-24 19:52           ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-28 11:24             ` Pavel Begunkov
2022-03-14 23:58               ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]                 ` <[email protected]>
2022-06-01  3:15                   ` Jens Axboe
2022-07-20 16:49                     ` [PATCH 0/2] coredump: Allow io_uring using apps to dump to pipes Eric W. Biederman
2022-07-20 16:50                       ` [PATCH 1/2] signal: Move stopping for the coredump from do_exit into get_signal Eric W. Biederman
2022-07-20 16:51                       ` [PATCH 2/2] coredump: Allow coredumps to pipes to work with io_uring Eric W. Biederman
2022-08-22 21:16                         ` Olivier Langlois
2022-08-23  3:35                           ` Olivier Langlois
2022-08-23 18:22                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-08-23 18:27                               ` Jens Axboe
2022-08-24 15:11                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-08-24 15:51                                   ` Jens Axboe
2022-01-05 19:39           ` [RFC] coredump: Do not interrupt dump for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL Olivier Langlois

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