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authorJann Horn <jannh@google.com>2018-08-21 22:00:58 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-09-15 09:45:27 +0200
commitf552f8c28d34ffea62dec915c0a63d900464504b (patch)
tree1485d39c8dd453d6ccea3861d969af2b7df5becc /kernel
parent8b89affb42ae14e549c233d0a90c8e46e533811f (diff)
fork: don't copy inconsistent signal handler state to child
[ Upstream commit 06e62a46bbba20aa5286102016a04214bb446141 ] Before this change, if a multithreaded process forks while one of its threads is changing a signal handler using sigaction(), the memcpy() in copy_sighand() can race with the struct assignment in do_sigaction(). It isn't clear whether this can cause corruption of the userspace signal handler pointer, but it definitely can cause inconsistency between different fields of struct sigaction. Take the appropriate spinlock to avoid this. I have tested that this patch prevents inconsistency between sa_sigaction and sa_flags, which is possible before this patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180702145108.73189-1-jannh@google.com Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 91907a3701ce..6a219fea4926 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1350,7 +1350,9 @@ static int copy_sighand(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
return -ENOMEM;
atomic_set(&sig->count, 1);
+ spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
memcpy(sig->action, current->sighand->action, sizeof(sig->action));
+ spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
return 0;
}