This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled signal: Only reschedule timers on signals timers have sent to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: signal-only-reschedule-timers-on-signals-timers-have-sent.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 57db7e4a2d92c2d3dfbca4ef8057849b2682436b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 04:31:16 -0500 Subject: signal: Only reschedule timers on signals timers have sent From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 57db7e4a2d92c2d3dfbca4ef8057849b2682436b upstream. Thomas Gleixner wrote: > The CRIU support added a 'feature' which allows a user space task to send > arbitrary (kernel) signals to itself. The changelog says: > > The kernel prevents sending of siginfo with positive si_code, because > these codes are reserved for kernel. I think we can allow a task to > send such a siginfo to itself. This operation should not be dangerous. > > Quite contrary to that claim, it turns out that it is outright dangerous > for signals with info->si_code == SI_TIMER. The following code sequence in > a user space task allows to crash the kernel: > > id = timer_create(CLOCK_XXX, ..... signo = SIGX); > timer_set(id, ....); > info->si_signo = SIGX; > info->si_code = SI_TIMER: > info->_sifields._timer._tid = id; > info->_sifields._timer._sys_private = 2; > rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo(..., SIGX, info); > sigemptyset(&sigset); > sigaddset(&sigset, SIGX); > rt_sigtimedwait(sigset, info); > > For timers based on CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID this > results in a kernel crash because sigwait() dequeues the signal and the > dequeue code observes: > > info->si_code == SI_TIMER && info->_sifields._timer._sys_private != 0 > > which triggers the following callchain: > > do_schedule_next_timer() -> posix_cpu_timer_schedule() -> arm_timer() > > arm_timer() executes a list_add() on the timer, which is already armed via > the timer_set() syscall. That's a double list add which corrupts the posix > cpu timer list. As a consequence the kernel crashes on the next operation > touching the posix cpu timer list. > > Posix clocks which are internally implemented based on hrtimers are not > affected by this because hrtimer_start() can handle already armed timers > nicely, but it's a reliable way to trigger the WARN_ON() in > hrtimer_forward(), which complains about calling that function on an > already armed timer. This problem has existed since the posix timer code was merged into 2.5.63. A few releases earlier in 2.5.60 ptrace gained the ability to inject not just a signal (which linux has supported since 1.0) but the full siginfo of a signal. The core problem is that the code will reschedule in response to signals getting dequeued not just for signals the timers sent but for other signals that happen to a si_code of SI_TIMER. Avoid this confusion by testing to see if the queued signal was preallocated as all timer signals are preallocated, and so far only the timer code preallocates signals. Move the check for if a timer needs to be rescheduled up into collect_signal where the preallocation check must be performed, and pass the result back to dequeue_signal where the code reschedules timers. This makes it clear why the code cares about preallocated timers. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git Reference: 66dd34ad31e5 ("signal: allow to send any siginfo to itself") Reference: 1669ce53e2ff ("Add PTRACE_GETSIGINFO and PTRACE_SETSIGINFO") Fixes: db8b50ba75f2 ("[PATCH] POSIX clocks & timers") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/signal.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -503,7 +503,8 @@ int unhandled_signal(struct task_struct return !tsk->ptrace; } -static void collect_signal(int sig, struct sigpending *list, siginfo_t *info) +static void collect_signal(int sig, struct sigpending *list, siginfo_t *info, + bool *resched_timer) { struct sigqueue *q, *first = NULL; @@ -525,6 +526,12 @@ static void collect_signal(int sig, stru still_pending: list_del_init(&first->list); copy_siginfo(info, &first->info); + + *resched_timer = + (first->flags & SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC) && + (info->si_code == SI_TIMER) && + (info->si_sys_private); + __sigqueue_free(first); } else { /* @@ -541,12 +548,12 @@ still_pending: } static int __dequeue_signal(struct sigpending *pending, sigset_t *mask, - siginfo_t *info) + siginfo_t *info, bool *resched_timer) { int sig = next_signal(pending, mask); if (sig) - collect_signal(sig, pending, info); + collect_signal(sig, pending, info, resched_timer); return sig; } @@ -558,15 +565,16 @@ static int __dequeue_signal(struct sigpe */ int dequeue_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, sigset_t *mask, siginfo_t *info) { + bool resched_timer = false; int signr; /* We only dequeue private signals from ourselves, we don't let * signalfd steal them */ - signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->pending, mask, info); + signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->pending, mask, info, &resched_timer); if (!signr) { signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->signal->shared_pending, - mask, info); + mask, info, &resched_timer); /* * itimer signal ? * @@ -611,7 +619,7 @@ int dequeue_signal(struct task_struct *t */ current->jobctl |= JOBCTL_STOP_DEQUEUED; } - if ((info->si_code & __SI_MASK) == __SI_TIMER && info->si_sys_private) { + if (resched_timer) { /* * Release the siglock to ensure proper locking order * of timer locks outside of siglocks. Note, we leave Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/signal-only-reschedule-timers-on-signals-timers-have-sent.patch