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fork: don't copy inconsistent signal handler state to child
authorJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 05:00:58 +0000 (22:00 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:52:51 +0000 (10:52 -0700)
commit7206bee053fe8040db17d9b395bb60a0c49dc2e4
tree614724f8bb48c794cf575e886fc540d0464c9a0f
parentc1dde340517c78f85191129d9c4aa4172c2ebbf2
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.com
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/fork.c