This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
alpha: fix crash if pthread_create races with signal delivery
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:
alpha-fix-crash-if-pthread_create-races-with-signal-delivery.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 21ffceda1c8b3807615c40d440d7815e0c85d366 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 14:01:34 -0500
Subject: alpha: fix crash if pthread_create races with signal delivery
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 21ffceda1c8b3807615c40d440d7815e0c85d366 upstream.
On alpha, a process will crash if it attempts to start a thread and a
signal is delivered at the same time. The crash can be reproduced with
this program: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-11/msg00473.html
The reason for the crash is this:
* we call the clone syscall
* we go to the function copy_process
* copy process calls copy_thread_tls, it is a wrapper around copy_thread
* copy_thread sets the tls pointer: childti->pcb.unique = regs->r20
* copy_thread sets regs->r20 to zero
* we go back to copy_process
* copy process checks "if (signal_pending(current))" and returns
-ERESTARTNOINTR
* the clone syscall is restarted, but this time, regs->r20 is zero, so
the new thread is created with zero tls pointer
* the new thread crashes in start_thread when attempting to access tls
The comment in the code says that setting the register r20 is some
compatibility with OSF/1. But OSF/1 doesn't use the CLONE_SETTLS flag, so
we don't have to zero r20 if CLONE_SETTLS is set. This patch fixes the bug
by zeroing regs->r20 only if CLONE_SETTLS is not set.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/alpha/kernel/process.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
@@ -274,12 +274,13 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, u
application calling fork. */
if (clone_flags & CLONE_SETTLS)
childti->pcb.unique = regs->r20;
+ else
+ regs->r20 = 0; /* OSF/1 has some strange fork() semantics. */
childti->pcb.usp = usp ?: rdusp();
*childregs = *regs;
childregs->r0 = 0;
childregs->r19 = 0;
childregs->r20 = 1; /* OSF/1 has some strange fork() semantics. */
- regs->r20 = 0;
stack = ((struct switch_stack *) regs) - 1;
*childstack = *stack;
childstack->r26 = (unsigned long) ret_from_fork;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/alpha-fix-crash-if-pthread_create-races-with-signal-delivery.patch
queue-3.18/alpha-fix-reboot-on-avanti-platform.patch