From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH -mm v2] do_notify_parent: sanitize the valid_signal() checks
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:58:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abld-ilvMEZ7VgMw@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260316151956.563558-1-kartikey406@gmail.com>
Now that kernel_clone() checks valid_signal(args->exit_signal), the "sig"
argument of do_notify_parent() must always be valid or we have a bug.
However, do_notify_parent() only checks that sig != -1 at the start, then
it does another valid_signal() check before __send_signal_locked().
This is confusing. Change do_notify_parent() to WARN and return early if
valid_signal(sig) is false.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
kernel/signal.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 86aad7badb9a..683ef92f7234 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2171,7 +2171,8 @@ bool do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
bool autoreap = false;
u64 utime, stime;
- WARN_ON_ONCE(sig == -1);
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!valid_signal(sig)))
+ return false;
/* do_notify_parent_cldstop should have been called instead. */
WARN_ON_ONCE(task_is_stopped_or_traced(tsk));
@@ -2252,7 +2253,7 @@ bool do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
* Send with __send_signal as si_pid and si_uid are in the
* parent's namespaces.
*/
- if (valid_signal(sig) && sig)
+ if (sig)
__send_signal_locked(sig, &info, tsk->parent, PIDTYPE_TGID, false);
__wake_up_parent(tsk, tsk->parent);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psig->siglock, flags);
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-17 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-16 15:19 [PATCH v3] kernel/fork: validate exit_signal in kernel_clone() Deepanshu Kartikey
2026-03-17 12:48 ` Oleg Nesterov
2026-03-17 14:10 ` Christian Brauner
2026-03-17 14:19 ` Oleg Nesterov
2026-03-17 13:58 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2026-03-17 14:38 ` [PATCH -mm v2] do_notify_parent: sanitize the valid_signal() checks Deepanshu Kartikey
2026-03-17 18:34 ` Andrew Morton
2026-03-17 19:08 ` Oleg Nesterov
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