[PATCH] kernel: make TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and core dumps co-exist

Jens Axboe
2021-08-18T03:06:13Z

task_work being added with notify == TWA_SIGNAL will utilize
TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL for signaling the targeted task that work is available.
If this happens while a task is going through a core dump, it'll
potentially disturb and truncate the dump as a signal interruption.

Have task_work_add() with notify == TWA_SIGNAL check if a task has been
signaled for a core dump, and refuse to add the work if that is the case.
When a core dump is invoked, explicitly check for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and
run any pending task_work if that is set. This is similar to how an
exiting task will not get new task_work added, and we return the same
error for the core dump case. As we return success or failure from
task_work_add(), the caller has to be prepared to handle this case
already.

Currently this manifests itself in that io_uring tasks that end up using
task_work will experience truncated core dumps.

Reported-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Reported-by: Olivier Langlois <olivier@trillion01.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

---

diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
index 07afb5ddb1c4..ca7c1ee44ada 100644
--- a/fs/coredump.c
+++ b/fs/coredump.c
@@ -602,6 +602,14 @@ void do_coredump(const kernel_siginfo_t *siginfo)
.mm_flags = mm->flags,
};

+ /*
+ * task_work_add() will refuse to add work after PF_SIGNALED has
+ * been set, ensure that we flush any pending TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL work
+ * if any was queued before that.
+ */
+ if (test_thread_flag(TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL))
+ tracehook_notify_signal();
+
audit_core_dumps(siginfo->si_signo);

binfmt = mm->binfmt;
diff --git a/kernel/task_work.c b/kernel/task_work.c
index 1698fbe6f0e1..1ab28904adc4 100644
--- a/kernel/task_work.c
+++ b/kernel/task_work.c
@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ int task_work_add(struct task_struct *task, struct callback_head *work,
head = READ_ONCE(task->task_works);
if (unlikely(head == &work_exited))
return -ESRCH;
+ /*
+ * TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL notifications will interfere with
+ * a core dump in progress, reject them.
+ */
+ if (notify == TWA_SIGNAL && (task->flags & PF_SIGNALED))
+ return -ESRCH;
work->next = head;
} while (cmpxchg(&task->task_works, head, work) != head);

--
Jens Axboe