pid_ns: Sleep in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE in zap_pid_ns_processes
authorEric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
Thu, 11 May 2017 23:21:01 +0000 (18:21 -0500)
committerEric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
Sat, 13 May 2017 22:26:01 +0000 (17:26 -0500)
The code can potentially sleep for an indefinite amount of time in
zap_pid_ns_processes triggering the hung task timeout, and increasing
the system average.  This is undesirable.  Sleep with a task state of
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE instead of TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE to remove these
undesirable side effects.

Apparently under heavy load this has been allowing Chrome to trigger
the hung time task timeout error and cause ChromeOS to reboot.

Reported-by: Vovo Yang <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Fixes: 6347e9009104 ("pidns: guarantee that the pidns init will be the last pidns process reaped")
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
kernel/pid_namespace.c

index d1f3e9f558b84058e4f8ec88fdfddc647d2f704e..74a5a7255b4d9cb473cc7708d851c64402cca942 100644 (file)
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns)
         * if reparented.
         */
        for (;;) {
-               set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+               set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
                if (pid_ns->nr_hashed == init_pids)
                        break;
                schedule();