On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:38:21AM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Alex Xu reported a regression in strace, caused by the introduction of
> the cgroup v2 freezer. The regression can be reproduced by stracing
> the following simple program:
>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> int main() {
> write(1, "a", 1);
> return 0;
> }
>
> An attempt to run strace ./a.out leads to the infinite loop:
> [ pre-main omitted ]
> write(1, "a", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if
> SA_RESTART is set)
> write(1, "a", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if
> SA_RESTART is set)
> write(1, "a", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if
> SA_RESTART is set)
> write(1, "a", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if
> SA_RESTART is set)
> write(1, "a", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if
> SA_RESTART is set)
> write(1, "a", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if
> SA_RESTART is set)
> [ repeats forever ]
>
> The problem occurs because the traced task leaves ptrace_stop()
> (and the signal handling loop) with the frozen bit set. So let's
> call cgroup_leave_frozen(true) unconditionally after sleeping
> in ptrace_stop().
>
> With this patch applied, strace works as expected:
> [ pre-main omitted ]
> write(1, "a", 1) = 1
> exit_group(0) = ?
> +++ exited with 0 +++
>
> Reported-by: Alex Xu <[email protected]>
> Fixes: 76f969e8948d ("cgroup: cgroup v2 freezer")
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Applied to cgroup/for-5.2-fixes.
Thanks.
--
tejun
