[PATCH 14/20] exit/syscall_user_dispatch: Send ordinary signals on failure

Eric W. Biederman
2021-10-20T17:45:41Z

Use force_fatal_sig instead of calling do_exit directly. This ensures
the ordinary signal handling path gets invoked, core dumps as
appropriate get created, and for multi-threaded processes all of the
threads are terminated not just a single thread.

When asked Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com> said [1]:
> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) asked:
>
> > Why does do_syscal_user_dispatch call do_exit(SIGSEGV) and
> > do_exit(SIGSYS) instead of force_sig(SIGSEGV) and force_sig(SIGSYS)?
> >
> > Looking at the code these cases are not expected to happen, so I would
> > be surprised if userspace depends on any particular behaviour on the
> > failure path so I think we can change this.
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> There is not really a good reason, and the use case that originated the
> feature doesn't rely on it.
>
> Unless I'm missing yet another problem and others correct me, I think
> it makes sense to change it as you described.
>
> > Is using do_exit in this way something you copied from seccomp?
>
> I'm not sure, its been a while, but I think it might be just that. The
> first prototype of SUD was implemented as a seccomp mode.

If at some point it becomes interesting we could relax
"force_fatal_sig(SIGSEGV)" to instead say
"force_sig_fault(SIGSEGV, SEGV_MAPERR, sd->selector)".

I avoid doing that in this patch to avoid making it possible
to catch currently uncatchable signals.

Cc: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87mtr6gdvi.fsf@collabora.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c b/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c
index c240302f56e2..4508201847d2 100644
--- a/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c
+++ b/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c
@@ -47,14 +47,18 @@ bool syscall_user_dispatch(struct pt_regs *regs)
* access_ok() is performed once, at prctl time, when
* the selector is loaded by userspace.
*/
- if (unlikely(__get_user(state, sd->selector)))
- do_exit(SIGSEGV);
+ if (unlikely(__get_user(state, sd->selector))) {
+ force_fatal_sig(SIGSEGV);
+ return true;
+ }

if (likely(state == SYSCALL_DISPATCH_FILTER_ALLOW))
return false;

- if (state != SYSCALL_DISPATCH_FILTER_BLOCK)
- do_exit(SIGSYS);
+ if (state != SYSCALL_DISPATCH_FILTER_BLOCK) {
+ force_fatal_sig(SIGSYS);
+ return true;
+ }
}

sd->on_dispatch = true;
--
2.20.1