This patch fixes a crash caused by an interrupt coming in when an IRQ stack
is being torn down. When this happens, handle_signal will loop, setting up
the IRQ stack again because the tearing down had finished, and handling
whatever signals had come in.
However, to_irq_stack returns a mask of pending signals to be handled, plus
bit zero is set if the IRQ stack was already active, and thus shouldn't be
torn down. This causes a problem because when handle_signal goes around
the loop, sig will be zero, and to_irq_stack will duly set bit zero in the
returned mask, faking handle_signal into believing that it shouldn't tear
down the IRQ stack and return thread_info pointers back to their original
values.
This will eventually cause a crash, as the IRQ stack thread_info will
continue pointing to the original task_struct and an interrupt will look
into it after it has been freed.
The fix is to stop passing a signal number into to_irq_stack. Rather, the
pending signals mask is initialized beforehand with the bit for sig already
set. References to sig in to_irq_stack can be replaced with references to
the mask.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use UL]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
extern void copy_sc(union uml_pt_regs *regs, void *from);
-unsigned long to_irq_stack(int sig, unsigned long *mask_out);
+extern unsigned long to_irq_stack(unsigned long *mask_out);
unsigned long from_irq_stack(int nested);
#endif
static unsigned long pending_mask;
-unsigned long to_irq_stack(int sig, unsigned long *mask_out)
+unsigned long to_irq_stack(unsigned long *mask_out)
{
struct thread_info *ti;
unsigned long mask, old;
int nested;
- mask = xchg(&pending_mask, 1 << sig);
+ mask = xchg(&pending_mask, *mask_out);
if(mask != 0){
/* If any interrupts come in at this point, we want to
* make sure that their bits aren't lost by our
* and pending_mask contains a bit for each interrupt
* that came in.
*/
- old = 1 << sig;
+ old = *mask_out;
do {
old |= mask;
mask = xchg(&pending_mask, old);
task = cpu_tasks[ti->cpu].task;
tti = task_thread_info(task);
+
*ti = *tti;
ti->real_thread = tti;
task->stack = ti;
void handle_signal(int sig, struct sigcontext *sc)
{
- unsigned long pending = 0;
+ unsigned long pending = 1UL << sig;
do {
int nested, bail;
* have to return, and the upper handler will deal
* with this interrupt.
*/
- bail = to_irq_stack(sig, &pending);
+ bail = to_irq_stack(&pending);
if(bail)
return;