From f63ee72e0fb82e504a0489490babc7612c7cd6c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:11:13 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] introduce lock_task_sighand() helper Add lock_task_sighand() helper and converts group_send_sig_info() to use it. Hopefully we will have more users soon. This patch also removes '!sighand->count' and '!p->usage' checks, I think they both are bogus, racy and unneeded (but probably it makes sense to restore them as BUG_ON()s). ->sighand is cleared and it's ->count is decremented in release_task() with sighand->siglock held, so it is a bug to have '!p->usage || !->count' after we already locked and verified it is the same. On the other hand, an already dead task without ->sighand can have a non-zero ->usage due to ptrace, for example. If we read the stale value of ->sighand we must see the change after spin_lock(), because that change was done while holding that same old ->sighand.siglock. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/signal.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/signal.c') diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index b0b1ca9..819fa49 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -1120,27 +1120,37 @@ void zap_other_threads(struct task_struct *p) /* * Must be called under rcu_read_lock() or with tasklist_lock read-held. */ +struct sighand_struct *lock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long *flags) +{ + struct sighand_struct *sighand; + + for (;;) { + sighand = rcu_dereference(tsk->sighand); + if (unlikely(sighand == NULL)) + break; + + spin_lock_irqsave(&sighand->siglock, *flags); + if (likely(sighand == tsk->sighand)) + break; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sighand->siglock, *flags); + } + + return sighand; +} + int group_send_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *p) { unsigned long flags; - struct sighand_struct *sp; int ret; -retry: ret = check_kill_permission(sig, info, p); - if (!ret && sig && (sp = rcu_dereference(p->sighand))) { - spin_lock_irqsave(&sp->siglock, flags); - if (p->sighand != sp) { - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sp->siglock, flags); - goto retry; - } - if ((atomic_read(&sp->count) == 0) || - (atomic_read(&p->usage) == 0)) { - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sp->siglock, flags); - return -ESRCH; + + if (!ret && sig) { + ret = -ESRCH; + if (lock_task_sighand(p, &flags)) { + ret = __group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p); + unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags); } - ret = __group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sp->siglock, flags); } return ret; -- cgit v1.1