Commit 06e62a46 authored by Jann Horn's avatar Jann Horn Committed by Linus Torvalds

fork: don't copy inconsistent signal handler state to child

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.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 20ab7218
......@@ -1427,7 +1427,9 @@ 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;
}
......
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