This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kernel/signal.c: remove the no longer needed SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE check in complete_signal()
to the 3.18-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:
kernel-signal.c-remove-the-no-longer-needed-signal_unkillable-check-in-complete_signal.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 426915796ccaf9c2bd9bb06dc5702225957bc2e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:30:08 -0800
Subject: kernel/signal.c: remove the no longer needed SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE check in complete_signal()
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 426915796ccaf9c2bd9bb06dc5702225957bc2e5 upstream.
complete_signal() checks SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE before it starts to destroy
the thread group, today this is wrong in many ways.
If nothing else, fatal_signal_pending() should always imply that the
whole thread group (except ->group_exit_task if it is not NULL) is
killed, this check breaks the rule.
After the previous changes we can rely on sig_task_ignored();
sig_fatal(sig) && SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE can only be true if we actually want
to kill this task and sig == SIGKILL OR it is traced and debugger can
intercept the signal.
This should hopefully fix the problem reported by Dmitry. This
test-case
static int init(void *arg)
{
for (;;)
pause();
}
int main(void)
{
char stack[16 * 1024];
for (;;) {
int pid = clone(init, stack + sizeof(stack)/2,
CLONE_NEWPID | SIGCHLD, NULL);
assert(pid > 0);
assert(ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, 0, 0) == 0);
assert(waitpid(-1, NULL, WSTOPPED) == pid);
assert(ptrace(PTRACE_DETACH, pid, 0, SIGSTOP) == 0);
assert(syscall(__NR_tkill, pid, SIGKILL) == 0);
assert(pid == wait(NULL));
}
}
triggers the WARN_ON_ONCE(!(task->jobctl & JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING)) in
task_participate_group_stop(). do_signal_stop()->signal_group_exit()
checks SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT and return false, but task_set_jobctl_pending()
checks fatal_signal_pending() and does not set JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING.
And his should fix the minor security problem reported by Kyle,
SECCOMP_RET_TRACE can miss fatal_signal_pending() the same way if the
task is the root of a pid namespace.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171103184246.GD21036@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Kyle Huey <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Kyle Huey <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/signal.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -970,9 +970,9 @@ static void complete_signal(int sig, str
* then start taking the whole group down immediately.
*/
if (sig_fatal(p, sig) &&
- !(signal->flags & (SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE | SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT)) &&
+ !(signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT) &&
!sigismember(&t->real_blocked, sig) &&
- (sig == SIGKILL || !t->ptrace)) {
+ (sig == SIGKILL || !p->ptrace)) {
/*
* This signal will be fatal to the whole group.
*/
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/kernel-signal.c-remove-the-no-longer-needed-signal_unkillable-check-in-complete_signal.patch
queue-3.18/kernel-signal.c-protect-the-signal_unkillable-tasks-from-sig_kernel_only-signals.patch
queue-3.18/kernel-acct.c-fix-the-acct-needcheck-check-in-check_free_space.patch
queue-3.18/kernel-signal.c-protect-the-traced-signal_unkillable-tasks-from-sigkill.patch