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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2007-08-30 23:56:35 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-08-31 01:42:23 -0700
commit60187d2708caa870f0825d753df1612ea688eb9e (patch)
tree35bbae1a2cdc1887ea1d85aa9c03ec0415dc5912 /kernel
parent99db67bc04af0f2e8cb710ac92aaeb9af135a7c6 (diff)
sigqueue_free: fix the race with collect_signal()
Spotted by taoyue <yue.tao@windriver.com> and Jeremy Katz <jeremy.katz@windriver.com>. collect_signal: sigqueue_free: list_del_init(&first->list); if (!list_empty(&q->list)) { // not taken } q->flags &= ~SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC; __sigqueue_free(first); __sigqueue_free(q); Now, __sigqueue_free() is called twice on the same "struct sigqueue" with the obviously bad implications. In particular, this double free breaks the array_cache->avail logic, so the same sigqueue could be "allocated" twice, and the bug can manifest itself via the "impossible" BUG_ON(!SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC) in sigqueue_free/send_sigqueue. Hopefully this can explain these mysterious bug-reports, see http://marc.info/?t=118766926500003 http://marc.info/?t=118466273000005 Alexey Dobriyan reports this patch makes the difference for the testcase, but nobody has an access to the application which opened the problems originally. Also, this patch removes tasklist lock/unlock, ->siglock is enough. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: taoyue <yue.tao@windriver.com> Cc: Jeremy Katz <jeremy.katz@windriver.com> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.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 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c19
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index ad63109e413..3169bed0b4d 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1300,20 +1300,19 @@ struct sigqueue *sigqueue_alloc(void)
void sigqueue_free(struct sigqueue *q)
{
unsigned long flags;
+ spinlock_t *lock = &current->sighand->siglock;
+
BUG_ON(!(q->flags & SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC));
/*
* If the signal is still pending remove it from the
- * pending queue.
+ * pending queue. We must hold ->siglock while testing
+ * q->list to serialize with collect_signal().
*/
- if (unlikely(!list_empty(&q->list))) {
- spinlock_t *lock = &current->sighand->siglock;
- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
- spin_lock_irqsave(lock, flags);
- if (!list_empty(&q->list))
- list_del_init(&q->list);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags);
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
- }
+ spin_lock_irqsave(lock, flags);
+ if (!list_empty(&q->list))
+ list_del_init(&q->list);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags);
+
q->flags &= ~SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC;
__sigqueue_free(q);
}