[PATCH] fix posix-timers leak
Exec fails to clean up posix-timers. This manifests itself in two ways, one worse than the other. In the single-threaded case, it just fails to clear out the timers on exec. POSIX says that exec clears out the timers from timer_create (though not the setitimer ones), so it's wrong that a lingering timer could fire after exec and kill the process with a signal it's not expecting. In the multi-threaded case, it not only leaves lingering timers, but it leaks them entirely when it replaces signal_struct, so they will never be freed by the process exiting after that exec. The new per-user RLIMIT_SIGPENDING actually limits the damage here, because a UID will fill up its quota with leaked timers and then never be able to use timer_create again (that's what my test program does). But if you have many many untrusted UIDs, this leak could be considered a DoS risk. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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