[patch 06/28] signalfd: fix interaction with posix-timers

Greg KH
2007-08-23T22:30:57Z

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-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

dequeue_signal:

if (__SI_TIMER) {
spin_unlock(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
do_schedule_next_timer(info);
spin_lock(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
}

Unless tsk == curent, this is absolutely unsafe: nothing prevents tsk from
exiting. If signalfd was passed to another process, do_schedule_next_timer()
is just wrong.

Add yet another "tsk == current" check into dequeue_signal().

This patch fixes an oopsable bug, but breaks the scheduling of posix timers
if the shared __SI_TIMER signal was fetched via signalfd attached to another
sub-thread. Mostly fixed by the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
kernel/signal.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ int dequeue_signal(struct task_struct *t
/* We only dequeue private signals from ourselves, we don't let
* signalfd steal them
*/
- if (tsk == current)
+ if (likely(tsk == current))
signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->pending, mask, info);
if (!signr) {
signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->signal->shared_pending,
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ int dequeue_signal(struct task_struct *t
if (!(tsk->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT))
tsk->signal->flags |= SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED;
}
- if ( signr &&
+ if (signr && likely(tsk == current) &&
((info->si_code & __SI_MASK) == __SI_TIMER) &&
info->si_sys_private){
/*

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