[PATCH 5.14 143/849] signal: Remove the bogus sigkill_pending in ptrace_stop

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-15T22:05:00Z

From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

commit 7d613f9f72ec8f90ddefcae038fdae5adb8404b3 upstream.

The existence of sigkill_pending is a little silly as it is
functionally a duplicate of fatal_signal_pending that is used in
exactly one place.

Checking for pending fatal signals and returning early in ptrace_stop
is actively harmful. It casues the ptrace_stop called by
ptrace_signal to return early before setting current->exit_code.
Later when ptrace_signal reads the signal number from
current->exit_code is undefined, making it unpredictable what will
happen.

Instead rely on the fact that schedule will not sleep if there is a
pending signal that can awaken a task.

Removing the explict sigkill_pending test fixes fixes ptrace_signal
when ptrace_stop does not stop because current->exit_code is always
set to to signr.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3d749b9e676b ("ptrace: simplify ptrace_stop()->sigkill_pending() path")
Fixes: 1a669c2f16d4 ("Add arch_ptrace_stop")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87pmsyx29t.fsf@disp2133
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
kernel/signal.c | 18 ++++--------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2109,15 +2109,6 @@ static inline bool may_ptrace_stop(void)
return true;
}

-/*
- * Return non-zero if there is a SIGKILL that should be waking us up.
- * Called with the siglock held.
- */
-static bool sigkill_pending(struct task_struct *tsk)
-{
- return sigismember(&tsk->pending.signal, SIGKILL) ||
- sigismember(&tsk->signal->shared_pending.signal, SIGKILL);
-}

/*
* This must be called with current->sighand->siglock held.
@@ -2144,17 +2135,16 @@ static void ptrace_stop(int exit_code, i
* calling arch_ptrace_stop, so we must release it now.
* To preserve proper semantics, we must do this before
* any signal bookkeeping like checking group_stop_count.
- * Meanwhile, a SIGKILL could come in before we retake the
- * siglock. That must prevent us from sleeping in TASK_TRACED.
- * So after regaining the lock, we must check for SIGKILL.
*/
spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
arch_ptrace_stop(exit_code, info);
spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
- if (sigkill_pending(current))
- return;
}

+ /*
+ * schedule() will not sleep if there is a pending signal that
+ * can awaken the task.
+ */
set_special_state(TASK_TRACED);

/*