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Diffstat (limited to 'pkg/sentry/platform')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkg/sentry/platform/ptrace/subprocess_linux.go | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/sentry/platform/ptrace/subprocess_linux.go b/pkg/sentry/platform/ptrace/subprocess_linux.go index 227dd4882..b3f2ebb20 100644 --- a/pkg/sentry/platform/ptrace/subprocess_linux.go +++ b/pkg/sentry/platform/ptrace/subprocess_linux.go @@ -41,7 +41,15 @@ func createStub() (*thread, error) { // Among other things, beforeFork masks all signals. beforeFork() - pid, _, errno = syscall.RawSyscall6(syscall.SYS_CLONE, uintptr(syscall.SIGCHLD)|syscall.CLONE_FILES, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + + // When creating the new child process, we specify SIGKILL as the + // signal to deliver when the child exits. We never expect a subprocess + // to exit; they are pooled and reused. This is done to ensure that if + // a subprocess is OOM-killed, this process (and all other stubs, + // transitively) will be killed as well. It's simply not possible to + // safely handle a single stub getting killed: the exact state of + // execution is unknown and not recoverable. + pid, _, errno = syscall.RawSyscall6(syscall.SYS_CLONE, uintptr(syscall.SIGKILL)|syscall.CLONE_FILES, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) if errno != 0 { afterFork() return nil, errno @@ -103,10 +111,12 @@ func (s *subprocess) createStub() (*thread, error) { // // Instead, we create the child untraced, which will do the PDEATHSIG // setup and then SIGSTOP itself for our attach below. + // + // See above re: SIGKILL. pid, err := t.syscallIgnoreInterrupt( ®s, syscall.SYS_CLONE, - arch.SyscallArgument{Value: uintptr(syscall.SIGCHLD | syscall.CLONE_FILES)}, + arch.SyscallArgument{Value: uintptr(syscall.SIGKILL | syscall.CLONE_FILES)}, arch.SyscallArgument{Value: 0}, arch.SyscallArgument{Value: 0}, arch.SyscallArgument{Value: 0}, @@ -127,7 +137,7 @@ func (s *subprocess) createStub() (*thread, error) { syscall.SYS_WAIT4, arch.SyscallArgument{Value: uintptr(pid)}, arch.SyscallArgument{Value: 0}, - arch.SyscallArgument{Value: syscall.WUNTRACED}, + arch.SyscallArgument{Value: syscall.WALL | syscall.WUNTRACED}, arch.SyscallArgument{Value: 0}, arch.SyscallArgument{Value: 0}, arch.SyscallArgument{Value: 0}) |