linux/kernel/exit.c, branch v2.6.37

do_exit(): make sure that we run with get_fs() == USER_DS

2010-12-02T22:51:16Z

If a user manages to trigger an oops with fs set to KERNEL_DS, fs is not otherwise reset before do_exit(). do_exit may later (via mm_release in fork.c) do a put_user to a user-controlled address, potentially allowing a user to leverage an oops into a controlled write into kernel memory. This is only triggerable in the presence of another bug, but this potentially turns a lot of DoS bugs into privilege escalations, so it's worth fixing. I have proof-of-concept code which uses this bug along with CVE-2010-3849 to write a zero to an arbitrary kernel address, so I've tested that this is not theoretical. A more logical place to put this fix might be when we know an oops has occurred, before we call do_exit(), but that would involve changing every architecture, in multiple places. Let's just stick it in do_exit instead. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update code comment] Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec

2010-11-05T21:16:03Z

posix-cpu-timers.c correctly assumes that the dying process does posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() and removes all !CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD timers from signal->cpu_timers list. But, it also assumes that timer->it.cpu.task is always the group leader, and thus the dead ->task means the dead thread group. This is obviously not true after de_thread() changes the leader. After that almost every posix_cpu_timer_ method has problems. It is not simple to fix this bug correctly. First of all, I think that timer->it.cpu should use struct pid instead of task_struct. Also, the locking should be reworked completely. In particular, tasklist_lock should not be used at all. This all needs a lot of nontrivial and hard-to-test changes. Change __exit_signal() to do posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() when the old leader dies during exec. This is not the fix, just the temporary hack to hide the problem for 2.6.37 and stable. IOW, this is obviously wrong but this is what we currently have anyway: cpu timers do not work after mt exec. In theory this change adds another race. The exiting leader can detach the timers which were attached to the new leader. However, the window between de_thread() and release_task() is small, we can pretend that sys_timer_create() was called before de_thread(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

exit: add lock context annotation on find_new_reaper()

2010-10-28T01:03:13Z

find_new_reaper() releases and regrabs tasklist_lock but was missing proper annotations. Add it. This remove following sparse warning: warning: context imbalance in 'find_new_reaper' - unexpected unlock Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

oom: add per-mm oom disable count

2010-10-26T23:52:05Z

It's pointless to kill a task if another thread sharing its mm cannot be killed to allow future memory freeing. A subsequent patch will prevent kills in such cases, but first it's necessary to have a way to flag a task that shares memory with an OOM_DISABLE task that doesn't incur an additional tasklist scan, which would make select_bad_process() an O(n^2) function. This patch adds an atomic counter to struct mm_struct that follows how many threads attached to it have an oom_score_adj of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN. They cannot be killed by the kernel, so their memory cannot be freed in oom conditions. This only requires task_lock() on the task that we're operating on, it does not require mm->mmap_sem since task_lock() pins the mm and the operation is atomic. [rientjes@google.com: changelog and sys_unshare() code] [rientjes@google.com: protect oom_disable_count with task_lock in fork] [rientjes@google.com: use old_mm for oom_disable_count in exec] Signed-off-by: Ying Han Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

perf: Fix up delayed_put_task_struct()

2010-09-09T19:07:09Z

I missed a perf_event_ctxp user when converting it to an array. Pull this last user into perf_event.c as well and fix it up. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Fix unprotected access to task credentials in waitid()

2010-08-18T01:07:43Z

Using a program like the following: #include #include #include #include int main() { id_t id; siginfo_t infop; pid_t res; id = fork(); if (id == 0) { sleep(1); exit(0); } kill(id, SIGSTOP); alarm(1); waitid(P_PID, id, &infop, WCONTINUED); return 0; } to call waitid() on a stopped process results in access to the child task's credentials without the RCU read lock being held - which may be replaced in the meantime - eliciting the following warning: =================================================== [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] --------------------------------------------------- kernel/exit.c:1460 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1 2 locks held by waitid02/22252: #0: (tasklist_lock){.?.?..}, at: [] do_wait+0xc5/0x310 #1: (&(&sighand->siglock)->rlock){-.-...}, at: [] wait_consider_task+0x19a/0xbe0 stack backtrace: Pid: 22252, comm: waitid02 Not tainted 2.6.35-323cd+ #3 Call Trace: [] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xa4/0xc0 [] wait_consider_task+0xaf1/0xbe0 [] do_wait+0xf5/0x310 [] sys_waitid+0x86/0x1f0 [] ? child_wait_callback+0x0/0x70 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b This is fixed by holding the RCU read lock in wait_task_continued() to ensure that the task's current credentials aren't destroyed between us reading the cred pointer and us reading the UID from those credentials. Furthermore, protect wait_task_stopped() in the same way. We don't need to keep holding the RCU read lock once we've read the UID from the credentials as holding the RCU read lock doesn't stop the target task from changing its creds under us - so the credentials may be outdated immediately after we've read the pointer, lock or no lock. Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ptrace: optimize exit_ptrace() for the likely case

2010-08-11T15:59:19Z

exit_ptrace() takes tasklist_lock unconditionally. We need this lock to avoid the race with ptrace_traceme(), it acts as a barrier. Change its caller, forget_original_parent(), to call exit_ptrace() under tasklist_lock. Change exit_ptrace() to drop and reacquire this lock if needed. This allows us to add the fastpath list_empty(ptraced) check. In the likely no-tracees case exit_ptrace() just returns and we avoid the lock() + unlock() sequence. "Zhang, Yanmin" suggested to add this check, and he reports that this change adds about 11% improvement in some tests. Suggested-and-tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: turn signal_struct->count into "int nr_threads"

2010-05-27T16:12:47Z

No functional changes, just s/atomic_t count/int nr_threads/. With the recent changes this counter has a single user, get_nr_threads() And, none of its callers need the really accurate number of threads, not to mention each caller obviously races with fork/exit. It is only used to report this value to the user-space, except first_tid() uses it to avoid the unnecessary while_each_thread() loop in the unlikely case. It is a bit sad we need a word in struct signal_struct for this, perhaps we can change get_nr_threads() to approximate the number of threads using signal->live and kill ->nr_threads later. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Acked-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

exit: move taskstats_tgid_free() from __exit_signal() to free_signal_struct()

2010-05-27T16:12:46Z

Move taskstats_tgid_free() from __exit_signal() to free_signal_struct(). This way signal->stats never points to nowhere and we can read ->stats lockless. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Veaceslav Falico Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

exit: __exit_signal: use thread_group_leader() consistently

2010-05-27T16:12:46Z

Cleanup: - Add the boolean, group_dead = thread_group_leader(), for clarity. - Do not test/set sig == NULL to detect the all-dead case, use this boolean. - Pass this boolen to __unhash_process() and use it instead of another thread_group_leader() call which needs ->group_leader. This can be considered as microoptimization, but hopefully this also allows us do do other cleanups later. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Veaceslav Falico Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds