]> err.no Git - linux-2.6/commitdiff
signals: fix sigqueue_free() vs __exit_signal() race
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Fri, 23 May 2008 20:04:41 +0000 (13:04 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 24 May 2008 16:56:10 +0000 (09:56 -0700)
__exit_signal() does flush_sigqueue(tsk->pending) outside of ->siglock.
This can race with another thread doing sigqueue_free(), we can free the
same SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC sigqueue twice or corrupt the pending->list.

Note that even sys_exit_group() can trigger this race, not only
sys_timer_delete().

Move the callsite of flush_sigqueue(tsk->pending) under ->siglock.

This patch doesn't touch flush_sigqueue(->shared_pending) below, it is
called when there are no other threads which can play with signals, and
sigqueue_free() can't be used outside of our thread group.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/exit.c
kernel/signal.c

index 1510f78a0ffa5a9496604b3acee679ca63d93c99..8f6185e69b691265746f81a1ca4ce9de9fd8a640 100644 (file)
@@ -126,6 +126,12 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
 
        __unhash_process(tsk);
 
+       /*
+        * Do this under ->siglock, we can race with another thread
+        * doing sigqueue_free() if we have SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC signals.
+        */
+       flush_sigqueue(&tsk->pending);
+
        tsk->signal = NULL;
        tsk->sighand = NULL;
        spin_unlock(&sighand->siglock);
@@ -133,7 +139,6 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
 
        __cleanup_sighand(sighand);
        clear_tsk_thread_flag(tsk,TIF_SIGPENDING);
-       flush_sigqueue(&tsk->pending);
        if (sig) {
                flush_sigqueue(&sig->shared_pending);
                taskstats_tgid_free(sig);
index 72bb4f51f9634c448ad6eb4986d8ed7f35deb1f1..12ffea7c201dd4a027eb403651e3563716756ab2 100644 (file)
@@ -1242,7 +1242,8 @@ void sigqueue_free(struct sigqueue *q)
        /*
         * If the signal is still pending remove it from the
         * pending queue. We must hold ->siglock while testing
-        * q->list to serialize with collect_signal().
+        * q->list to serialize with collect_signal() or with
+        * __exit_signal()->flush_sigqueue().
         */
        spin_lock_irqsave(lock, flags);
        if (!list_empty(&q->list))