1. 23 Jul, 2008 2 commits
    • Oleg Nesterov's avatar
      posix-timers: fix posix_timer_event() vs dequeue_signal() race · ba661292
      Oleg Nesterov authored
      The bug was reported and analysed by Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>,
      the patch is based on his and Roland's suggestions.
      
      posix_timer_event() always rewrites the pre-allocated siginfo before sending
      the signal. Most of the written info is the same all the time, but memset(0)
      is very wrong. If ->sigq is queued we can race with collect_signal() which
      can fail to find this siginfo looking at .si_signo, or copy_siginfo() can
      copy the wrong .si_code/si_tid/etc.
      
      In short, sys_timer_settime() can in fact stop the active timer, or the user
      can receive the siginfo with the wrong .si_xxx values.
      
      Move "memset(->info, 0)" from posix_timer_event() to alloc_posix_timer(),
      change send_sigqueue() to set .si_overrun = 0 when ->sigq is not queued.
      It would be nice to move the whole sigq->info initialization from send to
      create path, but this is not easy to do without uglifying timer_create()
      further.
      
      As Roland rightly pointed out, we need more cleanups/fixes here, see the
      "FIXME" comment in the patch. Hopefully this patch makes sense anyway, and
      it can mask the most bad implications.
      Reported-by: default avatarMark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
      Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
      Cc: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
      Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      
       kernel/posix-timers.c |   17 +++++++++++++----
       kernel/signal.c       |    1 +
       2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
      ba661292
    • Oleg Nesterov's avatar
      posix-timers: do_schedule_next_timer: fix the setting of ->si_overrun · 54da1174
      Oleg Nesterov authored
      do_schedule_next_timer() sets info->si_overrun = timr->it_overrun_last,
      this discards the already accumulated overruns.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
      Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
      Cc: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
      Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      54da1174
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