[PATCH 8/8] signal: Remove the helper signal_group_exit

Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-13T22:55:04Z

This helper is misleading. It tests for an ongoing exec as well as
the process having received a fatal signal.

Sometimes it is appropriate to treat an on-going exec differently than
a process that is shutting down due to a fatal signal. In particular
taking the fast path out of exit_signals instead of retargeting
signals is not appropriate during exec, and not changing the the exit
code in do_group_exit during exec.

Removing the helper so that both cases must be coded for explicitly
makes it more obvious what is going on as both cases must be coded for
explicitly.

While removing the helper fix the two cases where I have observed
using signal_group_helper resulted in the wrong result.

For the unset exit_code in do_group_exit during an exec I use 0 as I
think that is what group_exit_code has been set to most of the time.
During a thread group stop group_exit_code is set to the stop signal
and when the thread group receives SIGCONT group_exit_code is reset to
0.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
fs/coredump.c | 5 +++--
fs/exec.c | 2 +-
include/linux/sched/signal.h | 7 -------
kernel/exit.c | 8 ++++++--
kernel/signal.c | 8 +++++---
5 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
index ef56595a0d87..09302a6a0d80 100644
--- a/fs/coredump.c
+++ b/fs/coredump.c
@@ -372,11 +372,12 @@ static int zap_process(struct task_struct *start, int exit_code)
static int zap_threads(struct task_struct *tsk,
struct core_state *core_state, int exit_code)
{
+ struct signal_struct *signal = tsk->signal;
int nr = -EAGAIN;

spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
- if (!signal_group_exit(tsk->signal)) {
- tsk->signal->core_state = core_state;
+ if (!(signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT) && !signal->group_exec_task) {
+ signal->core_state = core_state;
nr = zap_process(tsk, exit_code);
clear_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_SIGPENDING);
tsk->flags |= PF_DUMPCORE;
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 9d2925811011..82db656ca709 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct *tsk)
* Kill all other threads in the thread group.
*/
spin_lock_irq(lock);
- if (signal_group_exit(sig)) {
+ if ((sig->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT) || sig->group_exec_task) {
/*
* Another group action in progress, just
* return so that the signal is processed.
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/signal.h b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
index d3248aba5183..b6ecb9fc4cd2 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
@@ -271,13 +271,6 @@ static inline void signal_set_stop_flags(struct signal_struct *sig,
sig->flags = (sig->flags & ~SIGNAL_STOP_MASK) | flags;
}

-/* If true, all threads except ->group_exec_task have pending SIGKILL */
-static inline int signal_group_exit(const struct signal_struct *sig)
-{
- return (sig->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT) ||
- (sig->group_exec_task != NULL);
-}
-
extern void flush_signals(struct task_struct *);
extern void ignore_signals(struct task_struct *);
extern void flush_signal_handlers(struct task_struct *, int force_default);
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 527c5e4430ae..e7104f803be0 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -907,15 +907,19 @@ do_group_exit(int exit_code)

BUG_ON(exit_code & 0x80); /* core dumps don't get here */

- if (signal_group_exit(sig))
+ if (sig->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT)
exit_code = sig->group_exit_code;
+ else if (sig->group_exec_task)
+ exit_code = 0;
else if (!thread_group_empty(current)) {
struct sighand_struct *const sighand = current->sighand;

spin_lock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
- if (signal_group_exit(sig))
+ if (sig->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT)
/* Another thread got here before we took the lock. */
exit_code = sig->group_exit_code;
+ else if (sig->group_exec_task)
+ exit_code = 0;
else {
sig->group_exit_code = exit_code;
sig->flags = SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT;
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 9eb3e2c1f9f7..860d844542b2 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2392,7 +2392,8 @@ static bool do_signal_stop(int signr)
WARN_ON_ONCE(signr & ~JOBCTL_STOP_SIGMASK);

if (!likely(current->jobctl & JOBCTL_STOP_DEQUEUED) ||
- unlikely(signal_group_exit(sig)))
+ unlikely(sig->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT) ||
+ unlikely(sig->group_exec_task))
return false;
/*
* There is no group stop already in progress. We must
@@ -2699,7 +2700,8 @@ bool get_signal(struct ksignal *ksig)
enum pid_type type;

/* Has this task already been marked for death? */
- if (signal_group_exit(signal)) {
+ if ((signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT) ||
+ signal->group_exec_task) {
ksig->info.si_signo = signr = SIGKILL;
sigdelset(&current->pending.signal, SIGKILL);
trace_signal_deliver(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_NOINFO,
@@ -2955,7 +2957,7 @@ void exit_signals(struct task_struct *tsk)
*/
cgroup_threadgroup_change_begin(tsk);

- if (thread_group_empty(tsk) || signal_group_exit(tsk->signal)) {
+ if (thread_group_empty(tsk) || (tsk->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT)) {
tsk->flags |= PF_EXITING;
cgroup_threadgroup_change_end(tsk);
return;
--
2.29.2