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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2009-08-26 23:29:24 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-08-27 05:06:52 +0200 |
commit | 4ab6c08336535f8c8e42cf45d7adeda882eff06e (patch) | |
tree | a55253a82ba425e38a3f2993b04fa1e3023da25a /kernel/fork.c | |
parent | mm: fix for infinite churning of mlocked pages (diff) | |
download | linux-4ab6c08336535f8c8e42cf45d7adeda882eff06e.tar.xz linux-4ab6c08336535f8c8e42cf45d7adeda882eff06e.zip |
clone(): fix race between copy_process() and de_thread()
Spotted by Hiroshi Shimamoto who also provided the test-case below.
copy_process() uses signal->count as a reference counter, but it is not.
This test case
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <pthread.h>
void *null_thread(void *p)
{
for (;;)
sleep(1);
return NULL;
}
void *exec_thread(void *p)
{
execl("/bin/true", "/bin/true", NULL);
return null_thread(p);
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
for (;;) {
pid_t pid;
int ret, status;
pid = fork();
if (pid < 0)
break;
if (!pid) {
pthread_t tid;
pthread_create(&tid, NULL, exec_thread, NULL);
for (;;)
pthread_create(&tid, NULL, null_thread, NULL);
}
do {
ret = waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
} while (ret == -1 && errno == EINTR);
}
return 0;
}
quickly creates an unkillable task.
If copy_process(CLONE_THREAD) races with de_thread()
copy_signal()->atomic(signal->count) breaks the signal->notify_count
logic, and the execing thread can hang forever in kernel space.
Change copy_process() to increment count/live only when we know for sure
we can't fail. In this case the forked thread will take care of its
reference to signal correctly.
If copy_process() fails, check CLONE_THREAD flag. If it it set - do
nothing, the counters were not changed and current belongs to the same
thread group. If it is not set, ->signal must be released in any case
(and ->count must be == 1), the forked child is the only thread in the
thread group.
We need more cleanups here, in particular signal->count should not be used
by de_thread/__exit_signal at all. This patch only fixes the bug.
Reported-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Tested-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 144326b7af50..e6c04d462ab2 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -815,11 +815,8 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) { struct signal_struct *sig; - if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) { - atomic_inc(¤t->signal->count); - atomic_inc(¤t->signal->live); + if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) return 0; - } sig = kmem_cache_alloc(signal_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); tsk->signal = sig; @@ -877,16 +874,6 @@ void __cleanup_signal(struct signal_struct *sig) kmem_cache_free(signal_cachep, sig); } -static void cleanup_signal(struct task_struct *tsk) -{ - struct signal_struct *sig = tsk->signal; - - atomic_dec(&sig->live); - - if (atomic_dec_and_test(&sig->count)) - __cleanup_signal(sig); -} - static void copy_flags(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p) { unsigned long new_flags = p->flags; @@ -1239,6 +1226,8 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, } if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) { + atomic_inc(¤t->signal->count); + atomic_inc(¤t->signal->live); p->group_leader = current->group_leader; list_add_tail_rcu(&p->thread_group, &p->group_leader->thread_group); } @@ -1282,7 +1271,8 @@ bad_fork_cleanup_mm: if (p->mm) mmput(p->mm); bad_fork_cleanup_signal: - cleanup_signal(p); + if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)) + __cleanup_signal(p->signal); bad_fork_cleanup_sighand: __cleanup_sighand(p->sighand); bad_fork_cleanup_fs: |