From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2.6.16-mm1] send_sigqueue: simplify and fix the race
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:47:11 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060326024711.GA9300@oleg> (raw)
send_sigqueue() checks PF_EXITING, then locks p->sighand->siglock.
This is unsafe: 'p' can exit in between and set ->sighand = NULL.
The race is theoretical, the window is tiny and irqs are disabled
by the caller, so I don't think we need the fix for -stable tree.
Convert send_sigqueue() to use lock_task_sighand() helper.
Also, delete 'p->flags & PF_EXITING' re-check, it is unneeded and
the comment is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
--- MM/kernel/signal.c~5_SSQ 2006-03-24 21:24:33.000000000 +0300
+++ MM/kernel/signal.c 2006-03-25 20:18:38.000000000 +0300
@@ -1309,12 +1309,10 @@ void sigqueue_free(struct sigqueue *q)
__sigqueue_free(q);
}
-int
-send_sigqueue(int sig, struct sigqueue *q, struct task_struct *p)
+int send_sigqueue(int sig, struct sigqueue *q, struct task_struct *p)
{
unsigned long flags;
int ret = 0;
- struct sighand_struct *sh;
BUG_ON(!(q->flags & SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC));
@@ -1328,48 +1326,17 @@ send_sigqueue(int sig, struct sigqueue *
*/
rcu_read_lock();
- if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_EXITING)) {
+ if (!likely(lock_task_sighand(p, &flags))) {
ret = -1;
goto out_err;
}
-retry:
- sh = rcu_dereference(p->sighand);
-
- spin_lock_irqsave(&sh->siglock, flags);
- if (p->sighand != sh) {
- /* We raced with exec() in a multithreaded process... */
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sh->siglock, flags);
- goto retry;
- }
-
- /*
- * We do the check here again to handle the following scenario:
- *
- * CPU 0 CPU 1
- * send_sigqueue
- * check PF_EXITING
- * interrupt exit code running
- * __exit_signal
- * lock sighand->siglock
- * unlock sighand->siglock
- * lock sh->siglock
- * add(tsk->pending) flush_sigqueue(tsk->pending)
- *
- */
-
- if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_EXITING)) {
- ret = -1;
- goto out;
- }
-
if (unlikely(!list_empty(&q->list))) {
/*
* If an SI_TIMER entry is already queue just increment
* the overrun count.
*/
- if (q->info.si_code != SI_TIMER)
- BUG();
+ BUG_ON(q->info.si_code != SI_TIMER);
q->info.si_overrun++;
goto out;
}
@@ -1385,7 +1352,7 @@ retry:
signal_wake_up(p, sig == SIGKILL);
out:
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sh->siglock, flags);
+ unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
out_err:
rcu_read_unlock();
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