From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 21:03:00 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Make sure "user->sigpending" count is in sync
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc5~21
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=10b1fbdb0a0ca91847a534ad26d0bc250c25b74f;p=linux-2.6

Make sure "user->sigpending" count is in sync

The previous commit (45c18b0bb579b5c1b89f8c99f1b6ffa4c586ba08, aka "Fix
unlikely (but possible) race condition on task->user access") fixed a
potential oops due to __sigqueue_alloc() getting its "user" pointer out
of sync with switch_user(), and accessing a user pointer that had been
de-allocated on another CPU.

It still left another (much less serious) problem, where a concurrent
__sigqueue_alloc and swich_user could cause sigqueue_alloc to do signal
pending reference counting for a _different_ user than the one it then
actually ended up using.  No oops, but we'd end up with the wrong signal
accounting.

Another case of Oleg's eagle-eyes picking up the problem.

This is trivially fixed by just making sure we load whichever "user"
structure we decide to use (it doesn't matter _which_ one we pick, we
just need to pick one) just once.

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 7ed8d5304b..df18c167a2 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -267,18 +267,25 @@ static struct sigqueue *__sigqueue_alloc(struct task_struct *t, gfp_t flags,
 					 int override_rlimit)
 {
 	struct sigqueue *q = NULL;
+	struct user_struct *user;
 
-	atomic_inc(&t->user->sigpending);
+	/*
+	 * In order to avoid problems with "switch_user()", we want to make
+	 * sure that the compiler doesn't re-load "t->user"
+	 */
+	user = t->user;
+	barrier();
+	atomic_inc(&user->sigpending);
 	if (override_rlimit ||
-	    atomic_read(&t->user->sigpending) <=
+	    atomic_read(&user->sigpending) <=
 			t->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_SIGPENDING].rlim_cur)
 		q = kmem_cache_alloc(sigqueue_cachep, flags);
 	if (unlikely(q == NULL)) {
-		atomic_dec(&t->user->sigpending);
+		atomic_dec(&user->sigpending);
 	} else {
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&q->list);
 		q->flags = 0;
-		q->user = get_uid(t->user);
+		q->user = get_uid(user);
 	}
 	return(q);
 }