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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2008-07-23 20:52:05 +0400
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2008-07-24 01:26:08 +0200
commitba661292a2bc6ddd305a212b0526e5dc22195fe7 (patch)
tree69d5749d967c67deffb6d804f61c359f5da928ad /kernel/posix-timers.c
parent54da1174922cddd4be83d5a364b2e0fdd693f513 (diff)
posix-timers: fix posix_timer_event() vs dequeue_signal() race
The bug was reported and analysed by Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>, the patch is based on his and Roland's suggestions. posix_timer_event() always rewrites the pre-allocated siginfo before sending the signal. Most of the written info is the same all the time, but memset(0) is very wrong. If ->sigq is queued we can race with collect_signal() which can fail to find this siginfo looking at .si_signo, or copy_siginfo() can copy the wrong .si_code/si_tid/etc. In short, sys_timer_settime() can in fact stop the active timer, or the user can receive the siginfo with the wrong .si_xxx values. Move "memset(->info, 0)" from posix_timer_event() to alloc_posix_timer(), change send_sigqueue() to set .si_overrun = 0 when ->sigq is not queued. It would be nice to move the whole sigq->info initialization from send to create path, but this is not easy to do without uglifying timer_create() further. As Roland rightly pointed out, we need more cleanups/fixes here, see the "FIXME" comment in the patch. Hopefully this patch makes sense anyway, and it can mask the most bad implications. Reported-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Cc: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> kernel/posix-timers.c | 17 +++++++++++++---- kernel/signal.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/posix-timers.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/posix-timers.c17
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index 814a2bb8d2ea..0ffaeb075e35 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -296,14 +296,22 @@ void do_schedule_next_timer(struct siginfo *info)
unlock_timer(timr, flags);
}
-int posix_timer_event(struct k_itimer *timr,int si_private)
+int posix_timer_event(struct k_itimer *timr, int si_private)
{
- memset(&timr->sigq->info, 0, sizeof(siginfo_t));
+ /*
+ * FIXME: if ->sigq is queued we can race with
+ * dequeue_signal()->do_schedule_next_timer().
+ *
+ * If dequeue_signal() sees the "right" value of
+ * si_sys_private it calls do_schedule_next_timer().
+ * We re-queue ->sigq and drop ->it_lock().
+ * do_schedule_next_timer() locks the timer
+ * and re-schedules it while ->sigq is pending.
+ * Not really bad, but not that we want.
+ */
timr->sigq->info.si_sys_private = si_private;
- /* Send signal to the process that owns this timer.*/
timr->sigq->info.si_signo = timr->it_sigev_signo;
- timr->sigq->info.si_errno = 0;
timr->sigq->info.si_code = SI_TIMER;
timr->sigq->info.si_tid = timr->it_id;
timr->sigq->info.si_value = timr->it_sigev_value;
@@ -435,6 +443,7 @@ static struct k_itimer * alloc_posix_timer(void)
kmem_cache_free(posix_timers_cache, tmr);
tmr = NULL;
}
+ memset(&tmr->sigq->info, 0, sizeof(siginfo_t));
return tmr;
}