Re: [RFC] coredump: Do not interrupt dump for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL

[Olivier Langlois <olivier@trillion01.com>]

On Fri, 2021-10-22 at 15:13 +0100, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 6/9/21 21:17, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > 
> > Folks,
> > 
> > Olivier Langlois has been struggling with coredumps getting
> > truncated in
> > tasks using io_uring.  He has also apparently been struggling with
> > the some of his email messages not making it to the lists.
> 
> Looks syzbot hit something relevant, see
> https://lore.kernel.org/io-
> uring/0000000000000012fb05cee99477@google.com/
> 
> In short, a task creates an io_uring worker thread, then the worker
> submits a task_work item to the creator task and won't die until
> the item is executed/cancelled. And I found that the creator task is
> sleeping in do_coredump() -> wait_for_completion()
> 
> 0xffffffff81343ccb is in do_coredump (fs/coredump.c:469).
> 464
> 465             if (core_waiters > 0) {
> 466                     struct core_thread *ptr;
> 467
> 468                     freezer_do_not_count();
> 469                     wait_for_completion(&core_state->startup);
> 470                     freezer_count();
> 
> 
> A hack executing tws there helps (see diff below).
> Any chance anyone knows what this is and how to fix it?
> 
> 
> diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
> index 3224dee44d30..f6f9dfb02296 100644
> --- a/fs/coredump.c
> +++ b/fs/coredump.c
> @@ -466,7 +466,8 @@ static int coredump_wait(int exit_code, struct
> core_state *core_state)
>           struct core_thread *ptr;
>   
>           freezer_do_not_count();
> -        wait_for_completion(&core_state->startup);
> +        while (wait_for_completion_interruptible(&core_state-
> >startup))
> +            tracehook_notify_signal();
>           freezer_count();
>           /*
>            * Wait for all the threads to become inactive, so that
> 
> 
> 
> 
Pavel,

I cannot comment on the merit of the proposed hack but my proposed
patch to fix the coredump truncation issue when a process using
io_uring core dumps that I submitted back in August is still
unreviewed!

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1625bc89782bf83d9d8c7c63e8ffcb651ccb15fa.1629655338.git.olivier@trillion01.com/

I have been using it since then I must have generated many dozens of
perfect core dump files with it and I have not seen a single truncated
core dump files like I used to have prior to the patch.

I am bringing back my patch to your attention because one nice side
effect of it is that it would have avoided totally the problem that you
have encountered in coredump_wait() since it does cancel io_uring
resources before calling coredump_wait()!

Greetings,
Olivier