[PATCH 5/9] signal: Protect parent child relationships by childs siglock

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Tue Apr 26 15:52:07 PDT 2022


The functions ptrace_stop and do_signal_stop have to drop siglock
and grab tasklist_lock because the parent/child relation ship
is guarded by siglock and not siglock.

Simplify things by guarding the parent/child relationship
with siglock.  For the most part this just requires a little bit
of code motion.  In a couple of places more locking was needed.

After this change tsk->parent, tsk->real_parent, tsk->ptrace tsk->ptracer_cred
are all protected by tsk->siglock.

The fields tsk->sibling and tsk->ptrace_entry are mostly protected by
tsk->siglock.  The field tsk->ptrace_entry is not protected by siglock
when tsk->ptrace_entry is reused as the dead task list.  The field
tsk->sibling is not protected by siglock when children are reparented
because their original parent dies.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
---
 kernel/exit.c   |  4 ++++
 kernel/fork.c   | 12 ++++++------
 kernel/ptrace.c | 13 +++++++++----
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index f072959fcab7..b07af19eca13 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -643,11 +643,15 @@ static void forget_original_parent(struct task_struct *father,
 
 	reaper = find_new_reaper(father, reaper);
 	list_for_each_entry(p, &father->children, sibling) {
+		spin_lock(&p->sighand->siglock);
 		for_each_thread(p, t) {
 			RCU_INIT_POINTER(t->real_parent, reaper);
 			BUG_ON((!t->ptrace) != (rcu_access_pointer(t->parent) == father));
 			if (likely(!t->ptrace))
 				t->parent = t->real_parent;
+		}
+		spin_unlock(&p->sighand->siglock);
+		for_each_thread(p, t) {
 			if (t->pdeath_signal)
 				group_send_sig_info(t->pdeath_signal,
 						    SEND_SIG_NOINFO, t,
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 9796897560ab..841021da69f3 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2367,6 +2367,12 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 	 */
 	write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 
+	klp_copy_process(p);
+
+	sched_core_fork(p);
+
+	spin_lock(&current->sighand->siglock);
+
 	/* CLONE_PARENT re-uses the old parent */
 	if (clone_flags & (CLONE_PARENT|CLONE_THREAD)) {
 		p->real_parent = current->real_parent;
@@ -2381,12 +2387,6 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 		p->exit_signal = args->exit_signal;
 	}
 
-	klp_copy_process(p);
-
-	sched_core_fork(p);
-
-	spin_lock(&current->sighand->siglock);
-
 	/*
 	 * Copy seccomp details explicitly here, in case they were changed
 	 * before holding sighand lock.
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index ccc4b465775b..16d1a84a2cae 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -123,13 +123,12 @@ void __ptrace_unlink(struct task_struct *child)
 	clear_task_syscall_work(child, SYSCALL_EMU);
 #endif
 
+	spin_lock(&child->sighand->siglock);
 	child->parent = child->real_parent;
 	list_del_init(&child->ptrace_entry);
 	old_cred = child->ptracer_cred;
 	child->ptracer_cred = NULL;
 	put_cred(old_cred);
-
-	spin_lock(&child->sighand->siglock);
 	child->ptrace = 0;
 	/*
 	 * Clear all pending traps and TRAPPING.  TRAPPING should be
@@ -447,15 +446,15 @@ static int ptrace_attach(struct task_struct *task, long request,
 	if (task->ptrace)
 		goto unlock_tasklist;
 
+	spin_lock(&task->sighand->siglock);
 	task->ptrace = flags;
 
 	ptrace_link(task, current);
 
 	/* SEIZE doesn't trap tracee on attach */
 	if (!seize)
-		send_sig_info(SIGSTOP, SEND_SIG_PRIV, task);
+		send_signal_locked(SIGSTOP, SEND_SIG_PRIV, task, PIDTYPE_PID);
 
-	spin_lock(&task->sighand->siglock);
 
 	/*
 	 * If the task is already STOPPED, set JOBCTL_TRAP_STOP and
@@ -521,8 +520,10 @@ static int ptrace_traceme(void)
 		 * pretend ->real_parent untraces us right after return.
 		 */
 		if (!ret && !(current->real_parent->flags & PF_EXITING)) {
+			spin_lock(&current->sighand->siglock);
 			current->ptrace = PT_PTRACED;
 			ptrace_link(current, current->real_parent);
+			spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
 		}
 	}
 	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
@@ -689,10 +690,14 @@ static int ptrace_setoptions(struct task_struct *child, unsigned long data)
 		return ret;
 
 	/* Avoid intermediate state when all opts are cleared */
+	write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+	spin_lock(&child->sighand->siglock);
 	flags = child->ptrace;
 	flags &= ~(PTRACE_O_MASK << PT_OPT_FLAG_SHIFT);
 	flags |= (data << PT_OPT_FLAG_SHIFT);
 	child->ptrace = flags;
+	spin_unlock(&child->sighand->siglock);
+	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.35.3




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