* [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1] ms/um: Set parent death signal for userspace process
@ 2026-10-27 20:51 Eva Kurchatova
2026-10-29 16:58 ` Konstantin Khorenko
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From: Eva Kurchatova @ 2026-10-27 20:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: khorenko; +Cc: devel
Enable PR_SET_PDEATHSIG so that the UML userspace process will be killed
when the kernel exits unexpectedly.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240919124511.282088-4-benjamin@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit 801e00d3a1b78b7f71675fae79946ff4aa3ee070)
Rebase note: this tree lacks upstream 32e8eaf263d9 ("um: use execveat to
create userspace MMs"), so the userspace process is still cloned and set
up in userspace_tramp() rather than in the stub executable; the parent
death signal is set there, through os_set_pdeathsig() as mainline does
for the winch thread.
Without it, the userspace processes of the mms still alive when the
kernel halts lose their tracer, fault in the stub and dump core: every
KUnit run of the User Mode Linux kernel leaves "linux killed by SIGSEGV"
core dumps, which fail the exit check of the hci-kunit CI test.
https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-143633
Feature: fix ms/um
Signed-off-by: Eva Kurchatova <eva.kurchatova@virtuozzo.com>
---
arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c
index b6f656bcffb1..cca016b0b29b 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c
@@ -214,6 +214,9 @@ static int userspace_tramp(void *stack)
(unsigned long) stub_segv_handler -
(unsigned long) __syscall_stub_start;
+ /* Make sure this process dies if the kernel dies */
+ os_set_pdeathsig();
+
ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, 0, 0);
signal(SIGTERM, SIG_DFL);
--
2.56.0
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* Re: [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1] ms/um: Set parent death signal for userspace process
2026-10-27 20:51 [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1] ms/um: Set parent death signal for userspace process Eva Kurchatova
@ 2026-10-29 16:58 ` Konstantin Khorenko
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From: Konstantin Khorenko @ 2026-10-29 16:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eva Kurchatova; +Cc: devel
- The rebase note is misleading: "as mainline does for the winch
thread". In vz10 the winch thread does not use this helper either,
because 42b8b00c8ab1a ("um: Use os_set_pdeathsig helper in winch
thread/process") is not backported.
- To fix it, either:
- send 4e5adbe447db3 ("um: Add os_set_pdeathsig helper function") as
a prerequisite patch (git apply --check on our base is clean), or
- call prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, SIGKILL) directly, as upstream does in
its stub_exe.c.
--
Best regards,
Konstantin Khorenko,
Virtuozzo Linux Kernel Team
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