Commit d5b36a4d authored by Oleg Nesterov's avatar Oleg Nesterov Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 32346491
......@@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@ int begin_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
bprm->mm = NULL;
#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS
exit_itimers(me->signal);
exit_itimers(me);
flush_itimer_signals();
#endif
......
......@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static inline void exit_thread(struct task_struct *tsk)
extern __noreturn void do_group_exit(int);
extern void exit_files(struct task_struct *);
extern void exit_itimers(struct signal_struct *);
extern void exit_itimers(struct task_struct *);
extern pid_t kernel_clone(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs);
struct task_struct *create_io_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, int node);
......
......@@ -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);
......
......@@ -1051,15 +1051,24 @@ static void itimer_delete(struct k_itimer *timer)
}
/*
* 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);
}
}
......
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