[PATCH 0/3] signal: requeuing undeliverable signals

Eric W. Biederman
2021-11-16T05:31:52Z

Kyle Huey recently reported[1] that rr gets confused if SIGKILL prevents
ptrace_signal from delivering a signal, as the kernel setups up a signal
frame for a signal that rr did not have a chance to observe with ptrace.

In looking into it I found a couple of bugs and a quality of
implementation issue.

- The test for signal_group_exit should be inside the for loop in get_signal.
- Signals should be requeued on the same queue they were dequeued from.
- When a fatal signal is pending ptrace_signal should not return another
signal for delivery.

Kyle Huey has verified[2] an earlier version of this change.

I have reworked things one more time to completely fix the issues
raised, and to keep the code maintainable long term.

I have smoke tested this code and combined with a careful review I
expect this code to work fine. Kyle if you can double check that
my last round of changes still works for rr I would appreciate it.

Eric W. Biederman (3):
signal: In get_signal test for signal_group_exit every time through the loop
signal: Requeue signals in the appropriate queue
signal: Requeue ptrace signals

fs/signalfd.c | 5 +++--
include/linux/sched/signal.h | 7 ++++---
kernel/signal.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211101034147.6203-1-khuey@kylehuey.com
[2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAP045ApAX725ZfujaK-jJNkfCo5s+oVFpBvNfPJk+DKY8K7d=Q@mail.gmail.com

Eric