JIRA: https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/RHEL-227851
CVE: CVE-2026-64560
Conflicts:
A context diff with the kernel/exit.c hunk due to missing upstream
commit 7903f907a226 ("pid: perform free_pid() calls outside of
tasklist_lock").
commit 920f893f735e92ba3a1cd9256899a186b161928d
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2026 12:02:38 +0200
posix-cpu-timers: Prevent UAF caused by non-leader exec() race
Wongi and Jungwoo decoded and reported a non-leader exec() related race
which can result in an UAF:
sys_timer_delete() exec()
posix_cpu_timer_del()
// Observes old leader
p = pid_task(pid, pid_type); de_thread()
switch_leader();
release_task(old_leader)
__exit_signal(old_leader)
sighand = lock(old_leader, sighand);
posix_cpu_timers*_exit();
sighand = lock_task_sighand(p) unhash_task(old_leader);
sh = lock(p, sighand) old_leader->sighand = NULL;
unlock(sighand);
(p->sighand == NULL)
unlock(sh)
return NULL;
// Returns without action
if(!sighand)
return 0;
free_posix_timer();
This is "harmless" unless the deleted timer was armed and enqueued in
p->signal because on exec() a TGID targeted timer is inherited.
As sys_timer_delete() freed the underlying posix timer object
run_posix_cpu_timers() or any timerqueue related add/delete operations on
other timers will access the freed object's timerqueue node, which results
in an UAF.
There is a similar problem vs. posix_cpu_timer_set(). For regular posix
timers it just transiently returns -ESRCH to user space, but for the use
case in do_cpu_nanosleep() it's the same UAF just that the k_itimer is
allocated on the stack.
Also posix_cpu_timer_rearm() fails to rearm the timer, which means it stops
to expire.
While debating solutions Frederic pointed out another problem:
posix_cpu_timer_del(tmr)
__exit_signal(p)
posix_cpu_timers*_exit(p);
unhash_task(p);
p->sighand = NULL;
sh = lock_task_sighand(p)
sighand = p->sighand;
if (!sighand)
return NULL;
lock(sighand);
if (!sh)
WARN_ON_ONCE(timer_queued(tmr));
On weakly ordered architectures it is not guaranteed that
posix_cpu_timer_del() will observe the stores in posix_cpu_timers*_exit()
when p->sighand is observed as NULL, which means the WARN() can be a false
positive.
Solve these issues by:
1) Changing the store in __exit_signal() to smp_store_release().
2) Adding a smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() into the !sighand path
of lock_task_sighand().
3) Creating a helper function for looking up the task and locking sighand
which does not return when sighand == NULL. Instead it retries the
task lookup and only if that fails it gives up.
4) Using that helper in the three affected functions.
#1/#2 ensures that the reader side which observes sighand == NULL also
observes all preceeding stores, i.e. the stores in posix_cpu_timers*_exit()
and the ones in unhash_task().
#3 ensures that the above described non-leader exec() situation is handled
gracefully. When the task lookup returns the old leader, but sighand ==
NULL then it retries. In the non-leader exec() case the subsequent task
lookup will observe the new leader due to #1/#2. In normal exit() scenarios
the subsequent lookup fails.
When the task lookup fails, the function also checks whether the timer is
still enqueued and issues a warning if that's the case. Unfortunately there
is nothing which can be done about it, but as the task is already not
longer visible the timer should not be accessed anymore. This check also
requires memory ordering, which is not provided when the first lookup
fails. To achieve that the check is preceeded by a smp_rmb() which pairs
with the smp_wmb() in write_seqlock() in __exit_signal(). That ensures that
the stores in posix_cpu_timers*_exit() are visible.
The history of the non-leader exec() issue goes back to the early days of
posix CPU timers, which stored a pointer to the group leader task in the
timer. That obviously fails when a non-leader exec() switches the leader.
commit e0a7021710 ("posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems
with mt exec") added a temporary workaround for that in 2010 which survived
about 10 years. The fix for the workaround changed the task pointer to a
pid pointer, but failed to see the subtle race described above. So the
Fixes tag picks that commit, which seems to be halfways accurate.
Thanks to Frederic Weissbecker, Oleg Nesterov and Peter Zijlstra for
review, feedback and suggestions and to Wongi and Jungwoo for the excellent
bug report and analysis!
Fixes: 55e8c8eb2c ("posix-cpu-timers: Store a reference to a pid not a task")
Reported-by: Wongi Lee <qw3rtyp0@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jungwoo Lee <jwlee2217@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-154147
Conflicts:
The following hunks that are not applicable are dropped.
- arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
- arch/s390/mm/pgalloc.c
- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c
- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_observation.c
- drivers/tty/tty_io.c
- fs/fuse/sysctl.c
- kernel/pid.c
commit 1751f872cc97f992ed5c4c72c55588db1f0021e1
Author: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:48:37 +0100
treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.
Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25c ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.
Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
virtual patch
@
depends on !(file in "net")
disable optional_qualifier
@
identifier table_name != {
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
iwcm_ctl_table,
ucma_ctl_table,
memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table
};
@@
+ const
struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };
sed:
sed --in-place \
-e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \
kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <bodonnel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-114122
commit 1d25bdd3f3831bb1b9512d4b5afcd2dea8a0c515
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:13:32 +0100
posix-timers: Rework timer removal
sys_timer_delete() and the do_exit() cleanup function itimer_delete() are
doing the same thing, but have needlessly different implementations instead
of sharing the code.
The other oddity of timer deletion is the fact that the timer is not
invalidated before the actual deletion happens, which allows concurrent
lookups to succeed.
That's wrong because a timer which is in the process of being deleted
should not be visible and any actions like signal queueing, delivery and
rearming should not happen once the task, which invoked timer_delete(), has
the timer locked.
Rework the code so that:
1) The signal queueing and delivery code ignore timers which are marked
invalid
2) The deletion implementation between sys_timer_delete() and
itimer_delete() is shared
3) The timer is invalidated and removed from the linked lists before
the deletion callback of the relevant clock is invoked.
That requires to rework timer_wait_running() as it does a lookup of
the timer when relocking it at the end. In case of deletion this
lookup would fail due to the preceding invalidation and the wait loop
would terminate prematurely.
But due to the preceding invalidation the timer cannot be accessed by
other tasks anymore, so there is no way that the timer has been freed
after the timer lock has been dropped.
Move the re-validation out of timer_wait_running() and handle it at
the only other usage site, timer_settime().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87zfht1exf.ffs@tglx
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-114122
commit 8c4840277b6daffe09dea0338f3fce1eb4319a43
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:28:44 +0100
signal/posixtimers: Handle ignore/blocked sequences correctly
syzbot triggered the warning in posixtimer_send_sigqueue(), which warns
about a non-ignored signal being already queued on the ignored list.
The warning is actually bogus, as the following sequence causes this:
signal($SIG, SIGIGN);
timer_settime(...); // arm periodic timer
timer fires, signal is ignored and queued on ignored list
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ...); // block the signal
timer_settime(...); // re-arm periodic timer
timer fires, signal is not ignored because it is blocked
---> Warning triggers as signal is on the ignored list
Ideally timer_settime() could remove the signal, but that's racy and
incomplete vs. other scenarios and requires a full reevaluation of the
pending signal list.
Instead of adding more complexity, handle it gracefully by removing the
warning and requeueing the signal to the pending list. That's correct
versus:
1) sig[timed]wait() as that does not check for SIGIGN and only relies on
dequeue_signal() -> posixtimers_deliver_signal() to check whether the
pending signal is still valid.
2) Unblocking of the signal.
- If the unblocking happens before SIGIGN is replaced by a signal
handler, then the timer is rearmed in dequeue_signal(), but
get_signal() will ignore it. The next timer expiry will move it back
to the ignored list.
- If SIGIGN was replaced before unblocking, then the signal will be
delivered and a subsequent expiry will queue a signal on the pending
list again.
There is a related scenario to trigger the complementary warning in the
signal ignored path, which does not expect the signal to be on the pending
list when it is ignored. That can be triggered even before the above change
via:
task1 task2
signal($SIG, SIGIGN);
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ...);
timer_create(); // Signal target is task2
timer_settime(...); // arm periodic timer
timer fires, signal is not ignored because it is blocked
and queued on the pending list of task2
syscall()
// Sets the pending flag
sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, ...);
-> preemption, task2 cannot dequeue the signal
timer_settime(...); // re-arm periodic timer
timer fires, signal is ignored
---> Warning triggers as signal is on task2's pending list
and the thread group is not exiting
Consequently, remove that warning too and just keep the signal on the
pending list.
The following attempt to deliver the signal on return to user space of
task2 will ignore the signal and a subsequent expiry will bring it back to
the ignored list, if it did not get blocked or un-ignored before that.
Fixes: df7a996b4dab ("signal: Queue ignored posixtimers on ignore list")
Reported-by: syzbot+3c2e3cc60665d71de2f7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87ikqhcnjn.ffs@tglx
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-114122
commit cdc905d16b07981363e53a21853ba1cf6cd8e92a
Author: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:48:23 +0100
posix-timers: Fix spurious warning on double enqueue versus do_exit()
A timer sigqueue may find itself already pending when it is tried to
be enqueued. This situation can happen if the timer sigqueue is enqueued
but then the timer is reset afterwards and fires before the pending
signal managed to be delivered.
However when such a double enqueue occurs while the corresponding signal
is ignored, the sigqueue is expected to be found either on the dedicated
ignored list if the timer was periodic or dropped if the timer was
one-shot. In any case it is not supposed to be queued on the real signal
queue.
An assertion verifies the latter expectation on top of the return value
of prepare_signal(), assuming "false" means that the signal is being
ignored. But prepare_signal() may also fail if the target is exiting as
the last task of its group. In this case the double enqueue observes the
sigqueue queued, as in such a situation:
TASK A (same group as B) TASK B (same group as A)
------------------------ ------------------------
// timer event
// queue signal to TASK B
posix_timer_queue_signal()
// reset timer through syscall
do_timer_settime()
// exit, leaving task B alone
do_exit()
do_exit()
synchronize_group_exit()
signal->flags = SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT
// ========> <IRQ> timer event
posix_timer_queue_signal()
// return false due to SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT
if (!prepare_signal())
WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&q->list))
And this spuriously triggers this warning:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5854 at kernel/signal.c:2008 posixtimer_send_sigqueue
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5854 Comm: syz-executor139 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-next-20241108-syzkaller #0
RIP: 0010:posixtimer_send_sigqueue+0x9da/0xbc0 kernel/signal.c:2008
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
alarm_handle_timer
alarmtimer_fired
__run_hrtimer
__hrtimer_run_queues
hrtimer_interrupt
local_apic_timer_interrupt
__sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
</IRQ>
Fortunately the recovery code in that case already does the right thing:
just exit from posixtimer_send_sigqueue() and wait for __exit_signal()
to flush the pending signal. Just make sure to warn only the case when
the sigqueue is queued and the signal is really ignored.
Fixes: df7a996b4dab ("signal: Queue ignored posixtimers on ignore list")
Reported-by: syzbot+852e935b899bde73626e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: syzbot+852e935b899bde73626e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241116234823.28497-1-frederic@kernel.org
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/673549c6.050a0220.1324f8.008c.GAE@google.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-114122
commit 7a66f72b09bb0762360274b1fb677b3433dbaa06
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 09:14:55 +0100
posix-timers: Cleanup SIG_IGN workaround leftovers
Now that ignored posix timer signals are requeued and the timers are
rearmed on signal delivery the workaround to keep such timers alive and
self rearm them is not longer required.
Remove the relevant hacks and the not longer required return values from
the related functions. The alarm timer workarounds will be cleaned up in a
separate step.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064214.187239060@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-114122
commit df7a996b4dab03c889fa86d849447b716f07b069
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 09:14:54 +0100
signal: Queue ignored posixtimers on ignore list
Queue posixtimers which have their signal ignored on the ignored list:
1) When the timer fires and the signal has SIG_IGN set
2) When SIG_IGN is installed via sigaction() and a timer signal
is already queued
This only happens when the signal is for a valid timer, which delivered the
signal in periodic mode. One-shot timer signals are correctly dropped.
Due to the lock order constraints (sighand::siglock nests inside
timer::lock) the signal code cannot access any of the timer fields which
are relevant to make this decision, e.g. timer::it_status.
This is addressed by establishing a protection scheme which requires to
lock both locks on the timer side for modifying decision fields in the
timer struct and therefore makes it possible for the signal delivery to
evaluate with only sighand:siglock being held:
1) Move the NULLification of timer->it_signal into the sighand::siglock
protected section of timer_delete() and check timer::it_signal in the
code path which determines whether the signal is dropped or queued on
the ignore list.
This ensures that a deleted timer cannot be moved onto the ignore
list, which would prevent it from being freed on exit() as it is not
longer in the process' posix timer list.
If the timer got moved to the ignored list before deletion then it is
removed from the ignored list under sighand lock in timer_delete().
2) Provide a new timer::it_sig_periodic flag, which gets set in the
signal queue path with both timer and sighand locks held if the timer
is actually in periodic mode at expiry time.
The ignore list code checks this flag under sighand::siglock and drops
the signal when it is not set.
If it is set, then the signal is moved to the ignored list independent
of the actual state of the timer.
When the signal is un-ignored later then the signal is moved back to
the signal queue. On signal delivery the posix timer side decides
about dropping the signal if the timer was re-armed, dis-armed or
deleted based on the signal sequence counter check.
If the thread/process exits then not yet delivered signals are
discarded which means the reference of the timer containing the
sigqueue is dropped and frees the timer.
This is way cheaper than requiring all code paths to lock
sighand::siglock of the target thread/process on any modification of
timer::it_status or going all the way and removing pending signals
from the signal queues on every rearm, disarm or delete operation.
So the protection scheme here is that on the timer side both timer::lock
and sighand::siglock have to be held for modifying
timer::it_signal
timer::it_sig_periodic
which means that on the signal side holding sighand::siglock is enough to
evaluate these fields.
In posixtimer_deliver_signal() holding timer::lock is sufficient to do the
sequence validation against timer::it_signal_seq because a concurrent
expiry is waiting on timer::lock to be released.
This completes the SIG_IGN handling and such timers are not longer self
rearmed which avoids pointless wakeups.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064214.120756416@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-114122
commit caf77435dd8a52cb39c602bdf67d35d6f782f553
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 09:14:52 +0100
signal: Handle ignored signals in do_sigaction(action != SIG_IGN)
When a real handler (including SIG_DFL) is installed for a signal, which
had previously SIG_IGN set, then the list of ignored posix timers has to be
checked for timers which are affected by this change.
Add a list walk function which checks for the matching signal number and if
found requeues the timers signal, so the timer is rearmed on signal
delivery.
Rearming the timer right away is not possible because that requires to drop
sighand lock.
No functional change as the counter part which queues the timers on the
ignored list is still missing.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064214.054091076@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-114122
commit 647da5f709f112319c0d51e06f330d8afecb1940
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 09:14:48 +0100
posix-timers: Move sequence logic into struct k_itimer
The posix timer signal handling uses siginfo::si_sys_private for handling
the sequence counter check. That indirection is not longer required and the
sequence count value at signal queueing time can be stored in struct
k_itimer itself.
This removes the requirement of treating siginfo::si_sys_private special as
it's now always zero as the kernel does not touch it anymore.
Suggested-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.852619866@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-114122
commit 6017a158beb13b412e55a451379798aae5876514
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 09:14:45 +0100
posix-timers: Embed sigqueue in struct k_itimer
To cure the SIG_IGN handling for posix interval timers, the preallocated
sigqueue needs to be embedded into struct k_itimer to prevent life time
races of all sorts.
Now that the prerequisites are in place, embed the sigqueue into struct
k_itimer and fixup the relevant usage sites.
Aside of preparing for proper SIG_IGN handling, this spares an extra
allocation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.719695194@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-114122
commit 0360ed14d9826678a50fa2b873e522a24cd3c018
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 09:14:42 +0100
signal: Refactor send_sigqueue()
To handle posix timers which have their signal ignored via SIG_IGN properly
it is required to requeue a ignored signal for delivery when SIG_IGN is
lifted so the timer gets rearmed.
Split the required code out of send_sigqueue() so it can be reused in
context of sigaction().
While at it rename send_sigqueue() to posixtimer_send_sigqueue() so its
clear what this is about.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.586453412@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-114122
commit b06b0345fff3678517acd0f1837d52477ba30944
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 09:14:32 +0100
posix-timers: Make signal overrun accounting sensible
The handling of the timer overrun in the signal code is inconsistent as it
takes previous overruns into account. This is just wrong as after the
reprogramming of a timer the overrun count starts over from a clean state,
i.e. 0.
Don't touch info::si_overrun in send_sigqueue() and only store the overrun
value at signal delivery time, which is computed from the timer itself
relative to the expiry time.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.106738193@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-114122
commit 513793bc6ab331b947111e8efaf8fcef33fb83e5
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 09:14:31 +0100
posix-timers: Make signal delivery consistent
Signals of timers which are reprogammed, disarmed or deleted can deliver
signals related to the past. The POSIX spec is blury about this:
- "The effect of disarming or resetting a timer with pending expiration
notifications is unspecified."
- "The disposition of pending signals for the deleted timer is
unspecified."
In both cases it is reasonable to expect that pending signals are
discarded. Especially in the reprogramming case it does not make sense to
account for previous overruns or to deliver a signal for a timer which has
been disarmed. This makes the behaviour consistent and understandable.
Remove the si_sys_private check from the signal delivery code and invoke
posix_timer_deliver_signal() unconditionally for posix timer related
signals.
Change posix_timer_deliver_signal() so it controls the actual signal
delivery via the return value. It now instructs the signal code to drop the
signal when:
1) The timer does not longer exist in the hash table
2) The timer signal_seq value is not the same as the si_sys_private value
which was set when the signal was queued.
This is also a preparatory change to embed the sigqueue into the k_itimer
structure, which in turn allows to remove the si_sys_private magic.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.040348644@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-114122
commit c775ea28d4e23f5e58b6953645ef90c1b27a8e83
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 10:42:04 +0200
signal: Allow POSIX timer signals to be dropped
In case that a timer was reprogrammed or deleted an already pending signal
is obsolete. Right now such signals are kept around and eventually
delivered. While POSIX is blury about this:
- "The effect of disarming or resetting a timer with pending expiration
notifications is unspecified."
- "The disposition of pending signals for the deleted timer is
unspecified."
it is reasonable in both cases to expect that pending signals are discarded
as they have no meaning anymore.
Prepare the signal code to allow dropping posix timer signals.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241001083835.494416923@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-114122
commit 4febce44cfebcb490b196d5d10ae9f403ca4c956
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 10:42:03 +0200
posix-timers: Cure si_sys_private race
The si_sys_private member of the siginfo which is embedded in the
preallocated sigqueue is used by the posix timer code to decide whether a
timer must be reprogrammed on signal delivery.
The handling of this is racy as a long standing comment in that code
documents. It is modified with the timer lock held, but without sighand
lock being held. The actual signal delivery code checks for it under
sighand lock without holding the timer lock.
Hand the new value to send_sigqueue() as argument and store it with sighand
lock held. This is an intermediate change to address this issue.
The arguments to this function will be cleanup in subsequent changes.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241001083835.434338954@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Prior to commit d646969055 ("Reimplement RLIMIT_SIGPENDING on top of
ucounts") UCOUNT_RLIMIT_SIGPENDING rlimit was not enforced for a class of
signals. However now it's enforced unconditionally, even if
override_rlimit is set. This behavior change caused production issues.
For example, if the limit is reached and a process receives a SIGSEGV
signal, sigqueue_alloc fails to allocate the necessary resources for the
signal delivery, preventing the signal from being delivered with siginfo.
This prevents the process from correctly identifying the fault address and
handling the error. From the user-space perspective, applications are
unaware that the limit has been reached and that the siginfo is
effectively 'corrupted'. This can lead to unpredictable behavior and
crashes, as we observed with java applications.
Fix this by passing override_rlimit into inc_rlimit_get_ucounts() and skip
the comparison to max there if override_rlimit is set. This effectively
restores the old behavior.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241104195419.3962584-1-roman.gushchin@linux.dev
Fixes: d646969055 ("Reimplement RLIMIT_SIGPENDING on top of ucounts")
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Co-developed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@google.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pull 'struct fd' updates from Al Viro:
"Just the 'struct fd' layout change, with conversion to accessor
helpers"
* tag 'pull-stable-struct_fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
add struct fd constructors, get rid of __to_fd()
struct fd: representation change
introduce fd_file(), convert all accessors to it.
Pull execve updates from Kees Cook:
- binfmt_elf: Dump smaller VMAs first in ELF cores (Brian Mak)
- binfmt_elf: mseal address zero (Jeff Xu)
- binfmt_elf, coredump: Log the reason of the failed core dumps (Roman
Kisel)
* tag 'execve-v6.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
binfmt_elf: mseal address zero
binfmt_elf: Dump smaller VMAs first in ELF cores
binfmt_elf, coredump: Log the reason of the failed core dumps
coredump: Standartize and fix logging
For any changes of struct fd representation we need to
turn existing accesses to fields into calls of wrappers.
Accesses to struct fd::flags are very few (3 in linux/file.h,
1 in net/socket.c, 3 in fs/overlayfs/file.c and 3 more in
explicit initializers).
Those can be dealt with in the commit converting to
new layout; accesses to struct fd::file are too many for that.
This commit converts (almost) all of f.file to
fd_file(f). It's not entirely mechanical ('file' is used as
a member name more than just in struct fd) and it does not
even attempt to distinguish the uses in pointer context from
those in boolean context; the latter will be eventually turned
into a separate helper (fd_empty()).
NOTE: mass conversion to fd_empty(), tempting as it
might be, is a bad idea; better do that piecewise in commit
that convert from fdget...() to CLASS(...).
[conflicts in fs/fhandle.c, kernel/bpf/syscall.c, mm/memcontrol.c
caught by git; fs/stat.c one got caught by git grep]
[fs/xattr.c conflict]
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Missing, failed, or corrupted core dumps might impede crash
investigations. To improve reliability of that process and consequently
the programs themselves, one needs to trace the path from producing
a core dumpfile to analyzing it. That path starts from the core dump file
written to the disk by the kernel or to the standard input of a user
mode helper program to which the kernel streams the coredump contents.
There are cases where the kernel will interrupt writing the core out or
produce a truncated/not-well-formed core dump without leaving a note.
Add logging for the core dump collection failure paths to be able to reason
what has gone wrong when the core dump is malformed or missing.
Report the size of the data written to aid in diagnosing the user mode
helper.
Signed-off-by: Roman Kisel <romank@linux.microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240718182743.1959160-3-romank@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
The task pointer which is handed to dequeue_signal() is always current. The
argument along with the first comment about signalfd in that function is
confusing at best. Remove it and use current internally.
Update the stale comment for dequeue_signal() while at it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:
"Several new features here:
- virtio-net is finally supported in vduse
- virtio (balloon and mem) interaction with suspend is improved
- vhost-scsi now handles signals better/faster
And fixes, cleanups all over the place"
* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (48 commits)
virtio-pci: Check if is_avq is NULL
virtio: delete vq in vp_find_vqs_msix() when request_irq() fails
MAINTAINERS: add Eugenio Pérez as reviewer
vhost-vdpa: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
vp_vdpa: don't allocate unused msix vectors
sound: virtio: drop owner assignment
fuse: virtio: drop owner assignment
scsi: virtio: drop owner assignment
rpmsg: virtio: drop owner assignment
nvdimm: virtio_pmem: drop owner assignment
wifi: mac80211_hwsim: drop owner assignment
vsock/virtio: drop owner assignment
net: 9p: virtio: drop owner assignment
net: virtio: drop owner assignment
net: caif: virtio: drop owner assignment
misc: nsm: drop owner assignment
iommu: virtio: drop owner assignment
drm/virtio: drop owner assignment
gpio: virtio: drop owner assignment
firmware: arm_scmi: virtio: drop owner assignment
...
This removes the signal/coredump hacks added for vhost_tasks in:
Commit f9010dbdce ("fork, vhost: Use CLONE_THREAD to fix freezer/ps regression")
When that patch was added vhost_tasks did not handle SIGKILL and would
try to ignore/clear the signal and continue on until the device's close
function was called. In the previous patches vhost_tasks and the vhost
drivers were converted to support SIGKILL by cleaning themselves up and
exiting. The hacks are no longer needed so this removes them.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <20240316004707.45557-10-michael.christie@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)
Remove the sentinel from ctl_table arrays. Reduce by one the values used
to compare the size of the adjusted arrays.
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Kuan-Wei Chiu has developed the well-named series "lib min_heap: Min
heap optimizations".
- Kuan-Wei Chiu has also sped up the library sorting code in the series
"lib/sort: Optimize the number of swaps and comparisons".
- Alexey Gladkov has added the ability for code running within an IPC
namespace to alter its IPC and MQ limits. The series is "Allow to
change ipc/mq sysctls inside ipc namespace".
- Geert Uytterhoeven has contributed some dhrystone maintenance work in
the series "lib: dhry: miscellaneous cleanups".
- Ryusuke Konishi continues nilfs2 maintenance work in the series
"nilfs2: eliminate kmap and kmap_atomic calls"
"nilfs2: fix kernel bug at submit_bh_wbc()"
- Nathan Chancellor has updated our build tools requirements in the
series "Bump the minimum supported version of LLVM to 13.0.1".
- Muhammad Usama Anjum continues with the selftests maintenance work in
the series "selftests/mm: Improve run_vmtests.sh".
- Oleg Nesterov has done some maintenance work against the signal code
in the series "get_signal: minor cleanups and fix".
Plus the usual shower of singleton patches in various parts of the tree.
Please see the individual changelogs for details.
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-03-14-09-36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (77 commits)
nilfs2: prevent kernel bug at submit_bh_wbc()
nilfs2: fix failure to detect DAT corruption in btree and direct mappings
ocfs2: enable ocfs2_listxattr for special files
ocfs2: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage
assoc_array: fix the return value in assoc_array_insert_mid_shortcut()
buildid: use kmap_local_page()
watchdog/core: remove sysctl handlers from public header
nilfs2: use div64_ul() instead of do_div()
mul_u64_u64_div_u64: increase precision by conditionally swapping a and b
kexec: copy only happens before uchunk goes to zero
get_signal: don't initialize ksig->info if SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT/group_exec_task
get_signal: hide_si_addr_tag_bits: fix the usage of uninitialized ksig
get_signal: don't abuse ksig->info.si_signo and ksig->sig
const_structs.checkpatch: add device_type
Normalise "name (ad@dr)" MODULE_AUTHORs to "name <ad@dr>"
dyndbg: replace kstrdup() + strchr() with kstrdup_and_replace()
list: leverage list_is_head() for list_entry_is_head()
nilfs2: MAINTAINERS: drop unreachable project mirror site
smp: make __smp_processor_id() 0-argument macro
fat: fix uninitialized field in nostale filehandles
...
ksig->ka and ksig->info are not initialized if get_signal() returns 0 or
if the caller is PF_USER_WORKER.
Check signr != 0 before SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS and move the "out" label down.
The latter means that ksig->sig won't be initialized if a PF_USER_WORKER
thread gets a fatal signal but this is fine, PF_USER_WORKER's don't use
ksig. And there is nothing new, in this case ksig->ka and ksig-info are
not initialized anyway. Add a comment.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240226165650.GA20829@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Wen Yang <wenyang.linux@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Right now we determine the scope of the signal based on the type of
pidfd. There are use-cases where it's useful to override the scope of
the signal. For example in [1]. Add flags to determine the scope of the
signal:
(1) PIDFD_SIGNAL_THREAD: send signal to specific thread reference by @pidfd
(2) PIDFD_SIGNAL_THREAD_GROUP: send signal to thread-group of @pidfd
(2) PIDFD_SIGNAL_PROCESS_GROUP: send signal to process-group of @pidfd
Since we now allow specifying PIDFD_SEND_PROCESS_GROUP for
pidfd_send_signal() to send signals to process groups we need to adjust
the check restricting si_code emulation by userspace to account for
PIDTYPE_PGID.
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/31093 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240210-chihuahua-hinzog-3945b6abd44a@brauner
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240214123655.GB16265@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Turn kill_pid_info() into kill_pid_info_type(), this allows to pass any
pid_type to group_send_sig_info(), despite its name it should work fine
even if type = PIDTYPE_PID.
Change pidfd_send_signal() to use PIDTYPE_PID or PIDTYPE_TGID depending
on PIDFD_THREAD.
While at it kill another TODO comment in pidfd_show_fdinfo(). As Christian
expains fdinfo reports f_flags, userspace can already detect PIDFD_THREAD.
Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240209130650.GA8048@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
So that do_tkill() can use this helper too. This also simplifies
the next patch.
TODO: perhaps we can kill prepare_kill_siginfo() and change the
callers to use SEND_SIG_NOINFO, but this needs some changes in
__send_signal_locked() and TP_STORE_SIGINFO().
Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240209130620.GA8039@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
With this flag:
- pidfd_open() doesn't require that the target task must be
a thread-group leader
- pidfd_poll() succeeds when the task exits and becomes a
zombie (iow, passes exit_notify()), even if it is a leader
and thread-group is not empty.
This means that the behaviour of pidfd_poll(PIDFD_THREAD,
pid-of-group-leader) is not well defined if it races with
exec() from its sub-thread; pidfd_poll() can succeed or not
depending on whether pidfd_task_exited() is called before
or after exchange_tids().
Perhaps we can improve this behaviour later, pidfd_poll()
can probably take sig->group_exec_task into account. But
this doesn't really differ from the case when the leader
exits before other threads (so pidfd_poll() succeeds) and
then another thread execs and pidfd_poll() will block again.
thread_group_exited() is no longer used, perhaps it can die.
Co-developed-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131132602.GA23641@redhat.com
Tested-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>
Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
do_notify_pidfd() makes no sense until the whole thread group exits, change
do_notify_parent() to check thread_group_empty().
This avoids the unnecessary do_notify_pidfd() when tsk is not a leader, or
it exits before other threads, or it has a ptraced EXIT_ZOMBIE sub-thread.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240127132407.GA29136@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The purpose of recalc_sigpending_and_wake() is not clear, it looks
"obviously unneeded" because we are going to send the signal which can't
be blocked or ignored.
Add the comment to explain why we can't rely on send_signal_locked() and
make this logic more simple/explicit. recalc_sigpending_and_wake() has no
other users, it can die.
In fact I think we don't even need signal_wake_up(), the target task must
be either current or a TASK_TRACED child, otherwise the usage of siglock
is not safe. But this needs another change.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231120151649.GA15995@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree
and there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs.
The lengthier patch series are
- 'kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation
in arch', from Baoquan He. This is mainly cleanups and
consolidation of the 'crashkernel=' kernel parameter handling
- After much discussion, David Laight's 'minmax: Relax type checks in
min() and max()' is here. Hopefully reduces some typecasting and
the use of min_t() and max_t()
- A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly
fix our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/... and which remove
task_struct.thread_group"
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (64 commits)
scripts/gdb/vmalloc: disable on no-MMU
scripts/gdb: fix usage of MOD_TEXT not defined when CONFIG_MODULES=n
.mailmap: add address mapping for Tomeu Vizoso
mailmap: update email address for Claudiu Beznea
tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh: lower the ptrace permissions
.mailmap: map Benjamin Poirier's address
scripts/gdb: add lx_current support for riscv
ocfs2: fix a spelling typo in comment
proc: test ProtectionKey in proc-empty-vm test
proc: fix proc-empty-vm test with vsyscall
fs/proc/base.c: remove unneeded semicolon
do_io_accounting: use sig->stats_lock
do_io_accounting: use __for_each_thread()
ocfs2: replace BUG_ON() at ocfs2_num_free_extents() with ocfs2_error()
ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment
scripts/show_delta: add __main__ judgement before main code
treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init
fs: ocfs2: check status values
proc: test /proc/${pid}/statm
compiler.h: move __is_constexpr() to compiler.h
...
Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
- The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned,
now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be
maintained as an LTS kernel.
- The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the
added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the
long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall.
* tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi
asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture
arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures
syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie()
Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64
lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support
Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions
kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers
arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
Waiman Long
Roman Gushchin
Linus Torvalds
Al Viro
Roman Kisel
Thomas Gleixner
Pavel Begunkov
Mike Christie
Joel Granados
Oleg Nesterov
Christian Brauner
Li kunyu