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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: paulmck@us.ibm.com, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	mingo@elte.hu, suzannew@cs.pdx.edu,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Subject: [PATCH] fix de_thread() vs send_group_sigqueue() race
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:12:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <436F991B.97AFC4C5@tv-sign.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <436E1401.920A83EE@tv-sign.ru>

When non-leader thread does exec, de_thread calls release_task(leader) before
calling exit_itimers(). If local timer interrupt happens in between, it can
oops in send_group_sigqueue() while taking ->sighand->siglock == NULL.

However, we can't change send_group_sigqueue() to check p->signal != NULL,
because sys_timer_create() does get_task_struct() only in SIGEV_THREAD_ID
case. So it is possible that this task_struct was already freed and we can't
trust p->signal.

This patch changes de_thread() so that leader released after exit_itimers()
call.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

--- 2.6.14/fs/exec.c~	2005-09-21 21:08:33.000000000 +0400
+++ 2.6.14/fs/exec.c	2005-11-07 23:54:42.000000000 +0300
@@ -593,6 +593,7 @@ static inline int de_thread(struct task_
 	struct signal_struct *sig = tsk->signal;
 	struct sighand_struct *newsighand, *oldsighand = tsk->sighand;
 	spinlock_t *lock = &oldsighand->siglock;
+	struct task_struct *leader = NULL;
 	int count;
 
 	/*
@@ -668,7 +669,7 @@ static inline int de_thread(struct task_
 	 * and to assume its PID:
 	 */
 	if (!thread_group_leader(current)) {
-		struct task_struct *leader = current->group_leader, *parent;
+		struct task_struct *parent;
 		struct dentry *proc_dentry1, *proc_dentry2;
 		unsigned long exit_state, ptrace;
 
@@ -677,6 +678,7 @@ static inline int de_thread(struct task_
 		 * It should already be zombie at this point, most
 		 * of the time.
 		 */
+		leader = current->group_leader;
 		while (leader->exit_state != EXIT_ZOMBIE)
 			yield();
 
@@ -736,7 +738,6 @@ static inline int de_thread(struct task_
 		proc_pid_flush(proc_dentry2);
 
 		BUG_ON(exit_state != EXIT_ZOMBIE);
-		release_task(leader);
         }
 
 	/*
@@ -746,8 +747,11 @@ static inline int de_thread(struct task_
 	sig->flags = 0;
 
 no_thread_group:
-	BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sig->count) != 1);
 	exit_itimers(sig);
+	if (leader)
+		release_task(leader);
+
+	BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sig->count) != 1);
 
 	if (atomic_read(&oldsighand->count) == 1) {
 		/*

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-07 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-05  1:36 [PATCH] Additional/catchup RCU signal fixes for -mm Paul E. McKenney
2005-11-05 16:32 ` Oleg Nesterov
2005-11-06  1:00   ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-11-06 14:17     ` Oleg Nesterov
2005-11-06 14:46       ` Oleg Nesterov
2005-11-06 23:02         ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-11-06 14:32     ` Posix timers vs exec problems Oleg Nesterov
2005-11-07 18:12       ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2005-11-08 20:36         ` [PATCH] fix de_thread() vs send_group_sigqueue() race Chris Wright
2005-11-08 20:55           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-16 23:26       ` [PATCH] sigaction should clear all signals on SIG_IGN, not just < 32 George Anzinger
2005-11-22  1:09         ` Thread group exec race -> null pointer... HELP George Anzinger
2005-11-22 14:45           ` Oleg Nesterov
2005-11-23 20:30             ` George Anzinger
2005-11-25 15:03               ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-22 19:20           ` [PATCH] fix do_wait() vs exec() race Oleg Nesterov

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