From dadac81b1b86196fcc48fb87620403c4a7174f06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:13:26 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] fix kill_proc_info() vs fork() theoretical race
copy_process:
attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PID, p->pid);
attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_TGID, p->tgid);
What if kill_proc_info(p->pid) happens in between?
copy_process() holds current->sighand.siglock, so we are safe
in CLONE_THREAD case, because current->sighand == p->sighand.
Otherwise, p->sighand is unlocked, the new process is already
visible to the find_task_by_pid(), but have a copy of parent's
'struct pid' in ->pids[PIDTYPE_TGID].
This means that __group_complete_signal() may hang while doing
do ... while (next_thread() != p)
We can solve this problem if we reverse these 2 attach_pid()s:
attach_pid() does wmb()
group_send_sig_info() calls spin_lock(), which
provides a read barrier. // Yes ?
I don't think we can hit this race in practice, but still.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
kernel/fork.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 3683ce10f4a91..fbea12d7a9437 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1173,8 +1173,6 @@ static task_t *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
if (unlikely(p->ptrace & PT_PTRACED))
__ptrace_link(p, current->parent);
- attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PID, p->pid);
- attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_TGID, p->tgid);
if (thread_group_leader(p)) {
p->signal->tty = current->signal->tty;
p->signal->pgrp = process_group(current);
@@ -1184,6 +1182,8 @@ static task_t *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
if (p->pid)
__get_cpu_var(process_counts)++;
}
+ attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_TGID, p->tgid);
+ attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PID, p->pid);
nr_threads++;
total_forks++;
--
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