| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.4 78/86] fork: fix copy_process(CLONE_PARENT) race with the exiting ->real_parent | Date | Mon, 9 Nov 2020 13:55:25 +0100 |
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From: Eddy Wu <itseddy0402@gmail.com>
commit b4e00444cab4c3f3fec876dc0cccc8cbb0d1a948 upstream.
current->group_leader->exit_signal may change during copy_process() if current->real_parent exits.
Move the assignment inside tasklist_lock to avoid the race.
Signed-off-by: Eddy Wu <eddy_wu@trendmicro.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- kernel/fork.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1539,14 +1539,9 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process( /* ok, now we should be set up.. */ p->pid = pid_nr(pid); if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) { - p->exit_signal = -1; p->group_leader = current->group_leader; p->tgid = current->tgid; } else { - if (clone_flags & CLONE_PARENT) - p->exit_signal = current->group_leader->exit_signal; - else - p->exit_signal = (clone_flags & CSIGNAL); p->group_leader = p; p->tgid = p->pid; } @@ -1591,9 +1586,14 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process( if (clone_flags & (CLONE_PARENT|CLONE_THREAD)) { p->real_parent = current->real_parent; p->parent_exec_id = current->parent_exec_id; + if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) + p->exit_signal = -1; + else + p->exit_signal = current->group_leader->exit_signal; } else { p->real_parent = current; p->parent_exec_id = current->self_exec_id; + p->exit_signal = (clone_flags & CSIGNAL); } spin_lock(¤t->sighand->siglock);
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