[PATCH] 9p: don't ignore fatal signals during flush

From: Shigeru Yoshida

Date: Sun Mar 22 2026 - 07:19:19 EST


When a 9P RPC request is interrupted by a signal, p9_client_rpc() clears
TIF_SIGPENDING and attempts to flush the pending request by calling
p9_client_flush(). Since commit 9523feac272c switched the wait from
wait_event_interruptible() to wait_event_killable(), only SIGKILL can
interrupt the wait. However, the flush path also clears TIF_SIGPENDING,
which prevents subsequent wait_event_killable() calls from detecting the
already-pending SIGKILL. This makes the task unkillable.

When a coredump is initiated by another thread, zap_process() sends
SIGKILL to all threads. If a thread is stuck in the flush path as
described above, it never exits, and the dumper thread waits forever in
coredump_wait(), resulting in a hung task.

The same issue exists in p9_client_zc_rpc().

Skip the flush and the P9_TFLUSH retry loop when a fatal signal is
pending so that the task can exit promptly.

Fixes: 9523feac272c ("net/9p: Switch to wait_event_killable()")
Reported-by: syzbot+6ed94e81a1492fe1d512@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/9p/client.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/9p/client.c b/net/9p/client.c
index f0dcf252af7e..28742f19041e 100644
--- a/net/9p/client.c
+++ b/net/9p/client.c
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ p9_client_rpc(struct p9_client *c, int8_t type, const char *fmt, ...)
smp_rmb();

if (err == -ERESTARTSYS && c->status == Connected &&
- type == P9_TFLUSH) {
+ type == P9_TFLUSH && !fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
sigpending = 1;
clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);
goto again;
@@ -609,7 +609,8 @@ p9_client_rpc(struct p9_client *c, int8_t type, const char *fmt, ...)
p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_ERROR, "req_status error %d\n", req->t_err);
err = req->t_err;
}
- if (err == -ERESTARTSYS && c->status == Connected) {
+ if (err == -ERESTARTSYS && c->status == Connected &&
+ !fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_MUX, "flushing\n");
sigpending = 1;
clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);
@@ -694,7 +695,8 @@ static struct p9_req_t *p9_client_zc_rpc(struct p9_client *c, int8_t type,
p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_ERROR, "req_status error %d\n", req->t_err);
err = req->t_err;
}
- if (err == -ERESTARTSYS && c->status == Connected) {
+ if (err == -ERESTARTSYS && c->status == Connected &&
+ !fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_MUX, "flushing\n");
sigpending = 1;
clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);
--
2.52.0