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Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 18:03:05 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: abort() fails to terminate PID 1 process
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 10:32:23PM +0200, Karl Böhlmark wrote:
> Hi!
>
> After running alpine-linux based docker containers for a while we noticed
> some problematic behaviour when one of our services had a memory leak
> causing the process to abort.
>
> Instead of getting abnormal process termination we were seeing the process
> hanging at 100% cpu.
>
> A minimal reproduction of this issue is to run
>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> int main ()
> {
> abort();
> }
>
> with "unshare --fork --pid" so that it runs as PID 1 in it's own PID
> namespace.
>
> Would it be reasonable to add a fallback strategy in abort() for
> terminating processes when the signals don't have any effect?
I've improved the fallback strategy. It's not perfect yet but should
mitigate your issue:
https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=0c8bc102f287d3993751d80ba2dffb01e0c8bc7f
Rich
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