From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] exit: change the release_task() paths to call flush_sigqueue() lockless
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 16:23:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250206152314.GA14620@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250206152244.GA14609@redhat.com>
A task can block a signal, accumulate up to RLIMIT_SIGPENDING sigqueues,
and exit. In this case __exit_signal()->flush_sigqueue() called with irqs
disabled can trigger a hard lockup, see
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20190322114917.GC28876@redhat.com/
Fortunately, after the recent posixtimer changes sys_timer_delete() paths
no longer try to clear SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC and/or free tmr->sigq, and after
the exiting task passes __exit_signal() lock_task_sighand() can't succeed
and pid_task(tmr->it_pid) will return NULL.
This means that after __exit_signal(tsk) nobody can play with tsk->pending
or (if group_dead) with tsk->signal->shared_pending, so release_task() can
safely call flush_sigqueue() after write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock).
TODO:
- we can probably shift posix_cpu_timers_exit() as well
- do_sigaction() can hit the similar problem
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
kernel/exit.c | 19 +++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 3485e5fc499e..2d7444da743d 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -200,20 +200,13 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
__unhash_process(tsk, group_dead);
write_sequnlock(&sig->stats_lock);
- /*
- * Do this under ->siglock, we can race with another thread
- * doing sigqueue_free() if we have SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC signals.
- */
- flush_sigqueue(&tsk->pending);
tsk->sighand = NULL;
spin_unlock(&sighand->siglock);
__cleanup_sighand(sighand);
clear_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_SIGPENDING);
- if (group_dead) {
- flush_sigqueue(&sig->shared_pending);
+ if (group_dead)
tty_kref_put(tty);
- }
}
static void delayed_put_task_struct(struct rcu_head *rhp)
@@ -279,6 +272,16 @@ void release_task(struct task_struct *p)
proc_flush_pid(thread_pid);
put_pid(thread_pid);
release_thread(p);
+ /*
+ * This task was already removed from the process/thread/pid lists
+ * and lock_task_sighand(p) can't succeed. Nobody else can touch
+ * ->pending or, if group dead, signal->shared_pending. We can call
+ * flush_sigqueue() lockless.
+ */
+ flush_sigqueue(&p->pending);
+ if (thread_group_leader(p))
+ flush_sigqueue(&p->signal->shared_pending);
+
put_task_struct_rcu_user(p);
p = leader;
--
2.25.1.362.g51ebf55
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-06 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-06 15:22 [PATCH v2 0/2] exit: change the release_task() paths to call flush_sigqueue() lockless Oleg Nesterov
2025-02-06 15:23 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2025-02-06 16:27 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Frederic Weisbecker
2025-02-06 16:55 ` Oleg Nesterov
2025-02-06 17:03 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2025-02-06 15:23 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] exit: kill the pointless __exit_signal()->clear_tsk_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING) Oleg Nesterov
2025-02-06 16:30 ` Frederic Weisbecker
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