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authorJann Horn <jannh@google.com>2018-08-21 22:00:58 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-09-15 09:40:38 +0200
commitb7befd11e0b259699ed1ee69dd3ee66da25b2d5e (patch)
treed148caf6de419ceb15b652c38370c5e99a1b5147 /kernel
parent189ff5b00004072b63969ea28b8d1512a651892c (diff)
fork: don't copy inconsistent signal handler state to child
[ Upstream commit 06e62a46bbba20aa5286102016a04214bb446141 ] 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> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index ac00f14208b7..37ec96fe739d 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1109,7 +1109,9 @@ static int copy_sighand(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
return -ENOMEM;
atomic_set(&sig->count, 1);
+ spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
memcpy(sig->action, current->sighand->action, sizeof(sig->action));
+ spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
return 0;
}