[PATCHv2] signal: protect SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE from unintentional clearing.

[PATCHv2] signal: protect SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE from unintentional clearing.

[Jamie Iles]

Since 00cd5c37af (ptrace: permit ptracing of /sbin/init) we can now
trace init processes.  init is initially protected with
SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE which will prevent fatal signals such as SIGSTOP, but
there are a number of paths during tracing where SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE can
be implicitly cleared.

This can result in init becoming stoppable/killable after tracing.  For
example, running:

  while true; do kill -STOP 1; done &
  strace -p 1

and then stopping strace and the kill loop will result in init being
left in state TASK_STOPPED.  Sending SIGCONT to init will resume it, but
init will now respond to future SIGSTOP signals rather than ignoring
them.

Make sure that when setting SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED
that we don't clear SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE.

Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@oracle.com>
---

v1->v2:
  - dropped set/clear helpers
  - added signal_set_stop_flags

 include/linux/sched.h | 10 ++++++++++
 kernel/signal.c       |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index e9c009dc3a4a..4d7761f15f5b 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -830,6 +830,16 @@ struct signal_struct {
 
 #define SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE	0x00000040 /* for init: ignore fatal signals */
 
+#define SIGNAL_STOP_MASK (SIGNAL_CLD_MASK | SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED | \
+			  SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED)
+
+static inline void signal_set_stop_flags(struct signal_struct *sig,
+					 unsigned int flags)
+{
+	WARN_ON(sig->flags & (SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT|SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP));
+	sig->flags = (sig->flags & ~SIGNAL_STOP_MASK) | flags;
+}
+
 /* If true, all threads except ->group_exit_task have pending SIGKILL */
 static inline int signal_group_exit(const struct signal_struct *sig)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 75761acc77cf..33d443d5d89b 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ static bool task_participate_group_stop(struct task_struct *task)
 	 * fresh group stop.  Read comment in do_signal_stop() for details.
 	 */
 	if (!sig->group_stop_count && !(sig->flags & SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED)) {
-		sig->flags = SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED;
+		signal_set_stop_flags(sig, SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED);
 		return true;
 	}
 	return false;
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ static bool prepare_signal(int sig, struct task_struct *p, bool force)
 			 * will take ->siglock, notice SIGNAL_CLD_MASK, and
 			 * notify its parent. See get_signal_to_deliver().
 			 */
-			signal->flags = why | SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED;
+			signal_set_stop_flags(signal, why | SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED);
 			signal->group_stop_count = 0;
 			signal->group_exit_code = 0;
 		}
-- 
2.11.0

Re: [PATCHv2] signal: protect SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE from unintentional clearing.

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 01/04, Jamie Iles wrote:
>
> This can result in init becoming stoppable/killable after tracing.  For
> example, running:
>
>   while true; do kill -STOP 1; done &
>   strace -p 1
>
> and then stopping strace and the kill loop will result in init being
> left in state TASK_STOPPED.  Sending SIGCONT to init will resume it, but
> init will now respond to future SIGSTOP signals rather than ignoring
> them.

and to SIGKILL.

Another problem is that /sbin/init should ignore SIGKILL even when ptraced,
but this needs another patch, will try to do tomorrow. And yet another problem
with force_sig(), it should probably take ptrace and/or SIGTRAP into account.

Thanks Jamie,

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>