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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> | 2008-08-12 15:30:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-08-20 11:15:24 -0700 |
| commit | 1a78633026ad482dd9d79ad85436a33ddc3050ed (patch) | |
| tree | 4c981b7c182d163d02625ee1b6adb816edca0db9 /kernel | |
| parent | 9658dda9809bbb685e7b3f425559742ce6d25aae (diff) | |
posix-timers: fix posix_timer_event() vs dequeue_signal() race
commit ba661292a2bc6ddd305a212b0526e5dc22195fe7 upstream
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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/posix-timers.c | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/signal.c | 1 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c index a9b04203a66d..69181f82916a 100644 --- a/kernel/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c @@ -297,14 +297,22 @@ 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; @@ -438,6 +446,7 @@ 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; } diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 6af1210092c3..286435b436ea 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -1312,6 +1312,7 @@ int send_sigqueue(int sig, struct sigqueue *q, struct task_struct *p) ret = -1; goto out_err; } + q->info.si_overrun = 0; if (unlikely(!list_empty(&q->list))) { /* |