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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2022-07-11 18:16:25 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-07-11 18:52:59 +0200 |
| commit | d5b36a4dbd06c5e8e36ca8ccc552f679069e2946 (patch) | |
| tree | 9c6f81aabf791e0e6bccf60d3882257374cd75f2 /kernel | |
| parent | Linux 5.19-rc6 (diff) | |
| download | linux-d5b36a4dbd06c5e8e36ca8ccc552f679069e2946.tar.xz linux-d5b36a4dbd06c5e8e36ca8ccc552f679069e2946.zip | |
fix race between exit_itimers() and /proc/pid/timers
As Chris explains, the comment above exit_itimers() is not correct,
we can race with proc_timers_seq_ops. Change exit_itimers() to clear
signal->posix_timers with ->siglock held.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: chris@accessvector.net
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 19 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index f072959fcab7..64c938ce36fe 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code) #ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS hrtimer_cancel(&tsk->signal->real_timer); - exit_itimers(tsk->signal); + exit_itimers(tsk); #endif if (tsk->mm) setmax_mm_hiwater_rss(&tsk->signal->maxrss, tsk->mm); diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c index 1cd10b102c51..5dead89308b7 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c @@ -1051,15 +1051,24 @@ retry_delete: } /* - * This is called by do_exit or de_thread, only when there are no more - * references to the shared signal_struct. + * This is called by do_exit or de_thread, only when nobody else can + * modify the signal->posix_timers list. Yet we need sighand->siglock + * to prevent the race with /proc/pid/timers. */ -void exit_itimers(struct signal_struct *sig) +void exit_itimers(struct task_struct *tsk) { + struct list_head timers; struct k_itimer *tmr; - while (!list_empty(&sig->posix_timers)) { - tmr = list_entry(sig->posix_timers.next, struct k_itimer, list); + if (list_empty(&tsk->signal->posix_timers)) + return; + + spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); + list_replace_init(&tsk->signal->posix_timers, &timers); + spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); + + while (!list_empty(&timers)) { + tmr = list_first_entry(&timers, struct k_itimer, list); itimer_delete(tmr); } } |