Thread management in a cloned process with CLONE_VM flag set - linux

Question

I need help with thread management inside cloned process.
The point is that I need to create and destroy threads inside a cloned process asynchronously (PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS is set). Everything is fine if CLONE_VM is not set, but I need it because main and child process must share the same address space.
Below is an example that demonstrate the question. Being compiled with CLONE_VM flag the program hangs at pthread_join while without CLONE_VM everything is fine.
Are there any ways to deal with this problem?
P.S. Tried at Debian GNU/Linux versions 7,8 and unstable (kernels 3.2, 3.16, 4.0).
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
/* Compile with # gcc -o pthread_test -lpthread pthread_test.c */
#define CLONE 1
pthread_mutex_t mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
void *thread_test(void *unused)
{
pthread_setcanceltype(PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS, NULL);
pthread_setcancelstate(PTHREAD_CANCEL_ENABLE, NULL);
pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);
pause();
return NULL;
}
int test(void *unused)
{
void *status;
int r;
pthread_t thread;
pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);
if ((r = pthread_create(&thread, NULL, thread_test, NULL)) != 0) {
printf("pthread_create returned %d\n", r);
exit(1);
}
pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);
printf("cancelling thread\n");
r = pthread_cancel(thread);
printf("pthread cancel returned : %s(%d)\n", strerror(r), r);
printf("joining thread\n");
r = pthread_join(thread, &status);
printf("pthread_join returned : %s\n", strerror(r));
if (status == PTHREAD_CANCELED)
printf("child was canceled\n");
else
printf("child exit status is %u\n", (unsigned)status);
return 0;
}
int main(void)
{
#if CLONE
void *stack = (void *)malloc(16384);
if (clone(test, stack + 16383, CLONE_VM | CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES, NULL) < 0) {
printf("clone failed\n");
exit(1);
}
waitpid(0, NULL, __WCLONE);
return 0;
#else
void *stack = (void *)malloc(16384);
if (clone(test, stack + 16383, /*CLONE_VM |*/ CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES, NULL) < 0) {
printf("clone failed\n");
exit(1);
}
waitpid(0, NULL, __WCLONE);
return 0;
#endif
}