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authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>2007-06-06 03:59:00 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-06-07 08:52:15 -0700
commitb74d0deb968e1f85942f17080eace015ce3c332c (patch)
tree7db612ba2931ef22ff7166f51dcb0fd1fe1d7ee1 /kernel
parent8381e04b90ce9e7669a2d20aa7aaff3be910e447 (diff)
Restrict clearing TIF_SIGPENDING
This patch should get a few birds. It prevents sigaction calls from clearing TIF_SIGPENDING in other threads, which could leak -ERESTART*. And It fixes ptrace_stop not to clear it, which done at the syscall exit stop could leak -ERESTART*. It probably removes the harm from signalfd, at least assuming it never calls dequeue_signal on kernel threads that might have used block_all_signals. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c16
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index acdfc0549c6f..fe590e00db8d 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -105,7 +105,11 @@ static int recalc_sigpending_tsk(struct task_struct *t)
set_tsk_thread_flag(t, TIF_SIGPENDING);
return 1;
}
- clear_tsk_thread_flag(t, TIF_SIGPENDING);
+ /*
+ * We must never clear the flag in another thread, or in current
+ * when it's possible the current syscall is returning -ERESTART*.
+ * So we don't clear it here, and only callers who know they should do.
+ */
return 0;
}
@@ -121,7 +125,9 @@ void recalc_sigpending_and_wake(struct task_struct *t)
void recalc_sigpending(void)
{
- recalc_sigpending_tsk(current);
+ if (!recalc_sigpending_tsk(current))
+ clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);
+
}
/* Given the mask, find the first available signal that should be serviced. */
@@ -385,7 +391,8 @@ int dequeue_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, sigset_t *mask, siginfo_t *info)
}
}
}
- recalc_sigpending_tsk(tsk);
+ if (likely(tsk == current))
+ recalc_sigpending();
if (signr && unlikely(sig_kernel_stop(signr))) {
/*
* Set a marker that we have dequeued a stop signal. Our
@@ -1580,8 +1587,9 @@ static void ptrace_stop(int exit_code, int nostop_code, siginfo_t *info)
/*
* Queued signals ignored us while we were stopped for tracing.
* So check for any that we should take before resuming user mode.
+ * This sets TIF_SIGPENDING, but never clears it.
*/
- recalc_sigpending();
+ recalc_sigpending_tsk(current);
}
void ptrace_notify(int exit_code)