From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38240C43219 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:24:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F91208C2 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:24:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728338AbfD0PYd (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Apr 2019 11:24:33 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:33512 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727480AbfD0PP1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Apr 2019 11:15:27 -0400 Received: from [192.168.4.242] (helo=deadeye) by shadbolt.decadent.org.uk with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hKP2y-0000zM-Py; Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:15:24 +0100 Received: from ben by deadeye with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hKP2m-0004ZQ-0e; Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:15:12 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov , "Eric W. Biederman" , "Dmitry Vyukov" Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:13:09 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore Subject: [PATCH 3.16 137/202] signal: Always notice exiting tasks In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.242 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.66-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "Eric W. Biederman" commit 35634ffa1751b6efd8cf75010b509dcb0263e29b upstream. Recently syzkaller was able to create unkillablle processes by creating a timer that is delivered as a thread local signal on SIGHUP, and receiving SIGHUP SA_NODEFERER. Ultimately causing a loop failing to deliver SIGHUP but always trying. Upon examination it turns out part of the problem is actually most of the solution. Since 2.5 signal delivery has found all fatal signals, marked the signal group for death, and queued SIGKILL in every threads thread queue relying on signal->group_exit_code to preserve the information of which was the actual fatal signal. The conversion of all fatal signals to SIGKILL results in the synchronous signal heuristic in next_signal kicking in and preferring SIGHUP to SIGKILL. Which is especially problematic as all fatal signals have already been transformed into SIGKILL. Instead of dequeueing signals and depending upon SIGKILL to be the first signal dequeued, first test if the signal group has already been marked for death. This guarantees that nothing in the signal queue can prevent a process that needs to exit from exiting. Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov Ref: ebf5ebe31d2c ("[PATCH] signal-fixes-2.5.59-A4") History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- kernel/signal.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -2231,6 +2231,11 @@ relock: goto relock; } + /* Has this task already been marked for death? */ + ksig->info.si_signo = signr = SIGKILL; + if (signal_group_exit(signal)) + goto fatal; + for (;;) { struct k_sigaction *ka; @@ -2326,6 +2331,7 @@ relock: continue; } + fatal: spin_unlock_irq(&sighand->siglock); /*