From 04213418a4e8d4e7f74f5b8b03713172a658d9e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Sekletar Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:05:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] process-util: make our freeze() routine do something useful When we crash we freeze() our-self (or possibly we reboot the machine if that is configured). However, calling pause() is very unhelpful thing to do. We should at least continue to do what init systems being doing since 70's and that is reaping zombies. Otherwise zombies start to accumulate on the system which is a very bad thing. As that can prevent admin from taking manual steps to reboot the machine in somewhat graceful manner (e.g. manually stopping services, unmounting data volumes and calling reboot -f). Fixes #7783 (cherry picked from commit 8647283e453e4039029e2b21270241fa4010b3d8) Resolves: #1540941 --- src/shared/util.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/shared/util.c b/src/shared/util.c index 39359fcc8a..af09532733 100644 --- a/src/shared/util.c +++ b/src/shared/util.c @@ -4158,6 +4158,17 @@ noreturn void freeze(void) { sync(); + /* Let's not freeze right away, but keep reaping zombies. */ + for (;;) { + int r; + siginfo_t si = {}; + + r = waitid(P_ALL, 0, &si, WEXITED); + if (r < 0 && errno != EINTR) + break; + } + + /* waitid() failed with an unexpected error, things are really borked. Freeze now! */ for (;;) pause(); }