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<title>signal: always clear sa_restorer on execve</title>
<updated>2013-03-20T19:58:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2013-03-13T21:59:33+00:00</published>
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commit 2ca39528c01a933f6689cd6505ce65bd6d68a530 upstream.

When the new signal handlers are set up, the location of sa_restorer is
not cleared, leaking a parent process's address space location to
children.  This allows for a potential bypass of the parent's ASLR by
examining the sa_restorer value returned when calling sigaction().

Based on what should be considered "secret" about addresses, it only
matters across the exec not the fork (since the VMAs haven't changed
until the exec).  But since exec sets SIG_DFL and keeps sa_restorer,
this is where it should be fixed.

Given the few uses of sa_restorer, a "set" function was not written
since this would be the only use.  Instead, we use
__ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER, as already done in other places.

Example of the leak before applying this patch:

  $ cat /proc/$$/maps
  ...
  7fb9f3083000-7fb9f3238000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 404469 .../libc-2.15.so
  ...
  $ ./leak
  ...
  7f278bc74000-7f278be29000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 404469 .../libc-2.15.so
  ...
  1 0 (nil) 0x7fb9f30b94a0
  2 4000000 (nil) 0x7f278bcaa4a0
  3 4000000 (nil) 0x7f278bcaa4a0
  4 0 (nil) 0x7fb9f30b94a0
  ...

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use SA_RESTORER for backportability]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: PaX Team &lt;pageexec@freemail.hu&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Julien Tinnes &lt;jln@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2ca39528c01a933f6689cd6505ce65bd6d68a530 upstream.

When the new signal handlers are set up, the location of sa_restorer is
not cleared, leaking a parent process's address space location to
children.  This allows for a potential bypass of the parent's ASLR by
examining the sa_restorer value returned when calling sigaction().

Based on what should be considered "secret" about addresses, it only
matters across the exec not the fork (since the VMAs haven't changed
until the exec).  But since exec sets SIG_DFL and keeps sa_restorer,
this is where it should be fixed.

Given the few uses of sa_restorer, a "set" function was not written
since this would be the only use.  Instead, we use
__ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER, as already done in other places.

Example of the leak before applying this patch:

  $ cat /proc/$$/maps
  ...
  7fb9f3083000-7fb9f3238000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 404469 .../libc-2.15.so
  ...
  $ ./leak
  ...
  7f278bc74000-7f278be29000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 404469 .../libc-2.15.so
  ...
  1 0 (nil) 0x7fb9f30b94a0
  2 4000000 (nil) 0x7f278bcaa4a0
  3 4000000 (nil) 0x7f278bcaa4a0
  4 0 (nil) 0x7fb9f30b94a0
  ...

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use SA_RESTORER for backportability]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: PaX Team &lt;pageexec@freemail.hu&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Julien Tinnes &lt;jln@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ptrace: ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL</title>
<updated>2013-03-03T22:09:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-19T13:56:52+00:00</published>
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Upstream commit 9899d11f654474d2d54ea52ceaa2a1f4db3abd68.

putreg() assumes that the tracee is not running and pt_regs_access() can
safely play with its stack.  However a killed tracee can return from
ptrace_stop() to the low-level asm code and do RESTORE_REST, this means
that debugger can actually read/modify the kernel stack until the tracee
does SAVE_REST again.

set_task_blockstep() can race with SIGKILL too and in some sense this
race is even worse, the very fact the tracee can be woken up breaks the
logic.

As Linus suggested we can clear TASK_WAKEKILL around the arch_ptrace()
call, this ensures that nobody can ever wakeup the tracee while the
debugger looks at it.  Not only this fixes the mentioned problems, we
can do some cleanups/simplifications in arch_ptrace() paths.

Probably ptrace_unfreeze_traced() needs more callers, for example it
makes sense to make the tracee killable for oom-killer before
access_process_vm().

While at it, add the comment into may_ptrace_stop() to explain why
ptrace_stop() still can't rely on SIGKILL and signal_pending_state().

Reported-by: Salman Qazi &lt;sqazi@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Suleiman Souhlal &lt;suleiman@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Upstream commit 9899d11f654474d2d54ea52ceaa2a1f4db3abd68.

putreg() assumes that the tracee is not running and pt_regs_access() can
safely play with its stack.  However a killed tracee can return from
ptrace_stop() to the low-level asm code and do RESTORE_REST, this means
that debugger can actually read/modify the kernel stack until the tracee
does SAVE_REST again.

set_task_blockstep() can race with SIGKILL too and in some sense this
race is even worse, the very fact the tracee can be woken up breaks the
logic.

As Linus suggested we can clear TASK_WAKEKILL around the arch_ptrace()
call, this ensures that nobody can ever wakeup the tracee while the
debugger looks at it.  Not only this fixes the mentioned problems, we
can do some cleanups/simplifications in arch_ptrace() paths.

Probably ptrace_unfreeze_traced() needs more callers, for example it
makes sense to make the tracee killable for oom-killer before
access_process_vm().

While at it, add the comment into may_ptrace_stop() to explain why
ptrace_stop() still can't rely on SIGKILL and signal_pending_state().

Reported-by: Salman Qazi &lt;sqazi@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Suleiman Souhlal &lt;suleiman@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ptrace: introduce signal_wake_up_state() and ptrace_signal_wake_up()</title>
<updated>2013-03-03T22:09:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-19T13:56:51+00:00</published>
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Upstream commit 910ffdb18a6408e14febbb6e4b6840fd2c928c82.

Cleanup and preparation for the next change.

signal_wake_up(resume =&gt; true) is overused. None of ptrace/jctl callers
actually want to wakeup a TASK_WAKEKILL task, but they can't specify the
necessary mask.

Turn signal_wake_up() into signal_wake_up_state(state), reintroduce
signal_wake_up() as a trivial helper, and add ptrace_signal_wake_up()
which adds __TASK_TRACED.

This way ptrace_signal_wake_up() can work "inside" ptrace_request()
even if the tracee doesn't have the TASK_WAKEKILL bit set.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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Upstream commit 910ffdb18a6408e14febbb6e4b6840fd2c928c82.

Cleanup and preparation for the next change.

signal_wake_up(resume =&gt; true) is overused. None of ptrace/jctl callers
actually want to wakeup a TASK_WAKEKILL task, but they can't specify the
necessary mask.

Turn signal_wake_up() into signal_wake_up_state(state), reintroduce
signal_wake_up() as a trivial helper, and add ptrace_signal_wake_up()
which adds __TASK_TRACED.

This way ptrace_signal_wake_up() can work "inside" ptrace_request()
even if the tracee doesn't have the TASK_WAKEKILL bit set.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ptrace: don't clear GROUP_STOP_SIGMASK on double-stop</title>
<updated>2011-11-11T17:36:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-26T17:06:32+00:00</published>
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[This does not correspond to any specific patch in the upstream tree as it was
fixed accidentally by rewriting the code in the 3.1 release]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740121

1. Luke Macken triggered WARN_ON(!(group_stop &amp; GROUP_STOP_SIGMASK))
   in do_signal_stop().

   This is because do_signal_stop() clears GROUP_STOP_SIGMASK part
   unconditionally but doesn't update it if task_is_stopped().

2. Looking at this problem I noticed that WARN_ON_ONCE(!ptrace) is
   not right, a stopped-but-resumed tracee can clone the untraced
   thread in the SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED group, the new thread can start
   another group-stop.

   Remove this warning, we need more fixes to make it true.

Reported-by: Luke Macken &lt;lmacken@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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[This does not correspond to any specific patch in the upstream tree as it was
fixed accidentally by rewriting the code in the 3.1 release]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740121

1. Luke Macken triggered WARN_ON(!(group_stop &amp; GROUP_STOP_SIGMASK))
   in do_signal_stop().

   This is because do_signal_stop() clears GROUP_STOP_SIGMASK part
   unconditionally but doesn't update it if task_is_stopped().

2. Looking at this problem I noticed that WARN_ON_ONCE(!ptrace) is
   not right, a stopped-but-resumed tracee can clone the untraced
   thread in the SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED group, the new thread can start
   another group-stop.

   Remove this warning, we need more fixes to make it true.

Reported-by: Luke Macken &lt;lmacken@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>signal: align __lock_task_sighand() irq disabling and RCU</title>
<updated>2011-07-20T18:04:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-19T10:25:36+00:00</published>
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The __lock_task_sighand() function calls rcu_read_lock() with interrupts
and preemption enabled, but later calls rcu_read_unlock() with interrupts
disabled.  It is therefore possible that this RCU read-side critical
section will be preempted and later RCU priority boosted, which means that
rcu_read_unlock() will call rt_mutex_unlock() in order to deboost itself, but
with interrupts disabled. This results in lockdep splats, so this commit
nests the RCU read-side critical section within the interrupt-disabled
region of code.  This prevents the RCU read-side critical section from
being preempted, and thus prevents the attempt to deboost with interrupts
disabled.

It is quite possible that a better long-term fix is to make rt_mutex_unlock()
disable irqs when acquiring the rt_mutex structure's -&gt;wait_lock.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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The __lock_task_sighand() function calls rcu_read_lock() with interrupts
and preemption enabled, but later calls rcu_read_unlock() with interrupts
disabled.  It is therefore possible that this RCU read-side critical
section will be preempted and later RCU priority boosted, which means that
rcu_read_unlock() will call rt_mutex_unlock() in order to deboost itself, but
with interrupts disabled. This results in lockdep splats, so this commit
nests the RCU read-side critical section within the interrupt-disabled
region of code.  This prevents the RCU read-side critical section from
being preempted, and thus prevents the attempt to deboost with interrupts
disabled.

It is quite possible that a better long-term fix is to make rt_mutex_unlock()
disable irqs when acquiring the rt_mutex structure's -&gt;wait_lock.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>signal.c: fix kernel-doc notation</title>
<updated>2011-06-15T02:12:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>randy.dunlap@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-14T22:50:11+00:00</published>
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Fix kernel-doc warnings in signal.c:

  Warning(kernel/signal.c:2374): No description found for parameter 'nset'
  Warning(kernel/signal.c:2374): Excess function parameter 'set' description in 'sys_rt_sigprocmask'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Fix kernel-doc warnings in signal.c:

  Warning(kernel/signal.c:2374): No description found for parameter 'nset'
  Warning(kernel/signal.c:2374): Excess function parameter 'set' description in 'sys_rt_sigprocmask'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>signal: sys_pause() should check signal_pending()</title>
<updated>2011-05-25T17:22:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-25T17:22:27+00:00</published>
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ERESTART* is always wrong without TIF_SIGPENDING. Teach sys_pause()
to handle the spurious wakeup correctly.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
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ERESTART* is always wrong without TIF_SIGPENDING. Teach sys_pause()
to handle the spurious wakeup correctly.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc</title>
<updated>2011-05-20T20:33:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-20T20:33:21+00:00</published>
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* 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc: (41 commits)
  signal: trivial, fix the "timespec declared inside parameter list" warning
  job control: reorganize wait_task_stopped()
  ptrace: fix signal-&gt;wait_chldexit usage in task_clear_group_stop_trapping()
  signal: sys_sigprocmask() needs retarget_shared_pending()
  signal: cleanup sys_sigprocmask()
  signal: rename signandsets() to sigandnsets()
  signal: do_sigtimedwait() needs retarget_shared_pending()
  signal: introduce do_sigtimedwait() to factor out compat/native code
  signal: sys_rt_sigtimedwait: simplify the timeout logic
  signal: cleanup sys_rt_sigprocmask()
  x86: signal: sys_rt_sigreturn() should use set_current_blocked()
  x86: signal: handle_signal() should use set_current_blocked()
  signal: sigprocmask() should do retarget_shared_pending()
  signal: sigprocmask: narrow the scope of -&gt;siglock
  signal: retarget_shared_pending: optimize while_each_thread() loop
  signal: retarget_shared_pending: consider shared/unblocked signals only
  signal: introduce retarget_shared_pending()
  ptrace: ptrace_check_attach() should not do s/STOPPED/TRACED/
  signal: Turn SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED into GROUP_STOP_DEQUEUED
  signal: do_signal_stop: Remove the unneeded task_clear_group_stop_pending()
  ...
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* 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc: (41 commits)
  signal: trivial, fix the "timespec declared inside parameter list" warning
  job control: reorganize wait_task_stopped()
  ptrace: fix signal-&gt;wait_chldexit usage in task_clear_group_stop_trapping()
  signal: sys_sigprocmask() needs retarget_shared_pending()
  signal: cleanup sys_sigprocmask()
  signal: rename signandsets() to sigandnsets()
  signal: do_sigtimedwait() needs retarget_shared_pending()
  signal: introduce do_sigtimedwait() to factor out compat/native code
  signal: sys_rt_sigtimedwait: simplify the timeout logic
  signal: cleanup sys_rt_sigprocmask()
  x86: signal: sys_rt_sigreturn() should use set_current_blocked()
  x86: signal: handle_signal() should use set_current_blocked()
  signal: sigprocmask() should do retarget_shared_pending()
  signal: sigprocmask: narrow the scope of -&gt;siglock
  signal: retarget_shared_pending: optimize while_each_thread() loop
  signal: retarget_shared_pending: consider shared/unblocked signals only
  signal: introduce retarget_shared_pending()
  ptrace: ptrace_check_attach() should not do s/STOPPED/TRACED/
  signal: Turn SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED into GROUP_STOP_DEQUEUED
  signal: do_signal_stop: Remove the unneeded task_clear_group_stop_pending()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ptrace: fix signal-&gt;wait_chldexit usage in task_clear_group_stop_trapping()</title>
<updated>2011-05-09T12:19:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-06T09:52:22+00:00</published>
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GROUP_STOP_TRAPPING waiting mechanism piggybacks on
signal-&gt;wait_chldexit which is primarily used to implement waiting for
wait(2) and friends.  When do_wait() waits on signal-&gt;wait_chldexit,
it uses a custom wake up callback, child_wait_callback(), which
expects the child task which is waking up the parent to be passed in
as @key to filter out spurious wakeups.

task_clear_group_stop_trapping() used __wake_up_sync() which uses NULL
@key causing the following oops if the parent was doing do_wait().

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000002d8
  IP: [&lt;ffffffff810499f9&gt;] child_wait_callback+0x29/0x80
  PGD 1d899067 PUD 1e418067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/local_cpus
  CPU 2
  Modules linked in:

  Pid: 4498, comm: test-continued Not tainted 2.6.39-rc6-work+ #32 Bochs Bochs
  RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff810499f9&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff810499f9&gt;] child_wait_callback+0x29/0x80
  RSP: 0000:ffff88001b889bf8  EFLAGS: 00010046
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88001fab3af8 RCX: 0000000000000000
  RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: ffff88001d91df20
  RBP: ffff88001b889c08 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000
  R13: ffff88001fb70550 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000001
  FS:  00007f26ccae4700(0000) GS:ffff88001fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
  CR2: 00000000000002d8 CR3: 000000001b8ac000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Process test-continued (pid: 4498, threadinfo ffff88001b888000, task ffff88001fb88000)
  Stack:
   ffff88001b889c18 ffff88001fb70538 ffff88001b889c58 ffffffff810312f9
   0000000000000001 0000000200000001 ffff88001b889c58 ffff88001fb70518
   0000000000000002 0000000000000082 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
  Call Trace:
   [&lt;ffffffff810312f9&gt;] __wake_up_common+0x59/0x90
   [&lt;ffffffff81035263&gt;] __wake_up_sync_key+0x53/0x80
   [&lt;ffffffff810352a0&gt;] __wake_up_sync+0x10/0x20
   [&lt;ffffffff8105a984&gt;] task_clear_jobctl_trapping+0x44/0x50
   [&lt;ffffffff8105bcbc&gt;] ptrace_stop+0x7c/0x290
   [&lt;ffffffff8105c20a&gt;] do_signal_stop+0x28a/0x2d0
   [&lt;ffffffff8105d27f&gt;] get_signal_to_deliver+0x14f/0x5a0
   [&lt;ffffffff81002175&gt;] do_signal+0x75/0x7b0
   [&lt;ffffffff8100292d&gt;] do_notify_resume+0x5d/0x70
   [&lt;ffffffff8182e36a&gt;] retint_signal+0x46/0x8c
  Code: 00 00 55 48 89 e5 53 48 83 ec 08 0f 1f 44 00 00 8b 47 d8 83 f8 03 74 3a 85 c0 49 89 c8 75 23 89 c0 48 8b 5f e0 4c 8d 0c 40 31 c0 &lt;4b&gt; 39 9c c8 d8 02 00 00 74 1d 48 83 c4 08 5b c9 c3 66 0f 1f 44

Fix it by using __wake_up_sync_key() and passing in the child as @key.

I still think it's a mistake to piggyback on wait_chldexit for this.
Given the relative low frequency of ptrace use, we would be much
better off leaving already complex wait_chldexit alone and using bit
waitqueue.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
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GROUP_STOP_TRAPPING waiting mechanism piggybacks on
signal-&gt;wait_chldexit which is primarily used to implement waiting for
wait(2) and friends.  When do_wait() waits on signal-&gt;wait_chldexit,
it uses a custom wake up callback, child_wait_callback(), which
expects the child task which is waking up the parent to be passed in
as @key to filter out spurious wakeups.

task_clear_group_stop_trapping() used __wake_up_sync() which uses NULL
@key causing the following oops if the parent was doing do_wait().

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000002d8
  IP: [&lt;ffffffff810499f9&gt;] child_wait_callback+0x29/0x80
  PGD 1d899067 PUD 1e418067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/local_cpus
  CPU 2
  Modules linked in:

  Pid: 4498, comm: test-continued Not tainted 2.6.39-rc6-work+ #32 Bochs Bochs
  RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff810499f9&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff810499f9&gt;] child_wait_callback+0x29/0x80
  RSP: 0000:ffff88001b889bf8  EFLAGS: 00010046
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88001fab3af8 RCX: 0000000000000000
  RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: ffff88001d91df20
  RBP: ffff88001b889c08 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000
  R13: ffff88001fb70550 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000001
  FS:  00007f26ccae4700(0000) GS:ffff88001fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
  CR2: 00000000000002d8 CR3: 000000001b8ac000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Process test-continued (pid: 4498, threadinfo ffff88001b888000, task ffff88001fb88000)
  Stack:
   ffff88001b889c18 ffff88001fb70538 ffff88001b889c58 ffffffff810312f9
   0000000000000001 0000000200000001 ffff88001b889c58 ffff88001fb70518
   0000000000000002 0000000000000082 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
  Call Trace:
   [&lt;ffffffff810312f9&gt;] __wake_up_common+0x59/0x90
   [&lt;ffffffff81035263&gt;] __wake_up_sync_key+0x53/0x80
   [&lt;ffffffff810352a0&gt;] __wake_up_sync+0x10/0x20
   [&lt;ffffffff8105a984&gt;] task_clear_jobctl_trapping+0x44/0x50
   [&lt;ffffffff8105bcbc&gt;] ptrace_stop+0x7c/0x290
   [&lt;ffffffff8105c20a&gt;] do_signal_stop+0x28a/0x2d0
   [&lt;ffffffff8105d27f&gt;] get_signal_to_deliver+0x14f/0x5a0
   [&lt;ffffffff81002175&gt;] do_signal+0x75/0x7b0
   [&lt;ffffffff8100292d&gt;] do_notify_resume+0x5d/0x70
   [&lt;ffffffff8182e36a&gt;] retint_signal+0x46/0x8c
  Code: 00 00 55 48 89 e5 53 48 83 ec 08 0f 1f 44 00 00 8b 47 d8 83 f8 03 74 3a 85 c0 49 89 c8 75 23 89 c0 48 8b 5f e0 4c 8d 0c 40 31 c0 &lt;4b&gt; 39 9c c8 d8 02 00 00 74 1d 48 83 c4 08 5b c9 c3 66 0f 1f 44

Fix it by using __wake_up_sync_key() and passing in the child as @key.

I still think it's a mistake to piggyback on wait_chldexit for this.
Given the relative low frequency of ptrace use, we would be much
better off leaving already complex wait_chldexit alone and using bit
waitqueue.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>signal: sys_sigprocmask() needs retarget_shared_pending()</title>
<updated>2011-05-09T11:48:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-09T11:48:56+00:00</published>
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sys_sigprocmask() changes current-&gt;blocked by hand. Convert this code
to use set_current_blocked().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
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sys_sigprocmask() changes current-&gt;blocked by hand. Convert this code
to use set_current_blocked().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
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