Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:45:38 +0400 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | [PATCH] sigqueue_free: fix the race with collect_signal() |
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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>
--- t/kernel/signal.c~SQFREE 2007-08-22 20:06:31.000000000 +0400 +++ t/kernel/signal.c 2007-08-23 16:02:57.000000000 +0400 @@ -1297,20 +1297,19 @@ struct sigqueue *sigqueue_alloc(void) void sigqueue_free(struct sigqueue *q) { unsigned long flags; + spinlock_t *lock = ¤t->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 = ¤t->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); } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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