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<entry>
<title>kernel/signal.c: trace_signal_deliver when signal_group_exit</title>
<updated>2019-06-11T10:24:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhenliang Wei</name>
<email>weizhenliang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-01T05:30:52+00:00</published>
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commit 98af37d624ed8c83f1953b1b6b2f6866011fc064 upstream.

In the fixes commit, removing SIGKILL from each thread signal mask and
executing "goto fatal" directly will skip the call to
"trace_signal_deliver".  At this point, the delivery tracking of the
SIGKILL signal will be inaccurate.

Therefore, we need to add trace_signal_deliver before "goto fatal" after
executing sigdelset.

Note: SEND_SIG_NOINFO matches the fact that SIGKILL doesn't have any info.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425025812.91424-1-weizhenliang@huawei.com
Fixes: cf43a757fd4944 ("signal: Restore the stop PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT")
Signed-off-by: Zhenliang Wei &lt;weizhenliang@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Ivan Delalande &lt;colona@arista.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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 98af37d624ed8c83f1953b1b6b2f6866011fc064 upstream.

In the fixes commit, removing SIGKILL from each thread signal mask and
executing "goto fatal" directly will skip the call to
"trace_signal_deliver".  At this point, the delivery tracking of the
SIGKILL signal will be inaccurate.

Therefore, we need to add trace_signal_deliver before "goto fatal" after
executing sigdelset.

Note: SEND_SIG_NOINFO matches the fact that SIGKILL doesn't have any info.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425025812.91424-1-weizhenliang@huawei.com
Fixes: cf43a757fd4944 ("signal: Restore the stop PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT")
Signed-off-by: Zhenliang Wei &lt;weizhenliang@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Ivan Delalande &lt;colona@arista.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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>
<entry>
<title>signal: Restore the stop PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT</title>
<updated>2019-02-20T09:13:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-12T05:27:42+00:00</published>
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commit cf43a757fd49442bc38f76088b70c2299eed2c2f upstream.

In the middle of do_exit() there is there is a call
"ptrace_event(PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT, code);" That call places the process
in TACKED_TRACED aka "(TASK_WAKEKILL | __TASK_TRACED)" and waits for
for the debugger to release the task or SIGKILL to be delivered.

Skipping past dequeue_signal when we know a fatal signal has already
been delivered resulted in SIGKILL remaining pending and
TIF_SIGPENDING remaining set.  This in turn caused the
scheduler to not sleep in PTACE_EVENT_EXIT as it figured
a fatal signal was pending.  This also caused ptrace_freeze_traced
in ptrace_check_attach to fail because it left a per thread
SIGKILL pending which is what fatal_signal_pending tests for.

This difference in signal state caused strace to report
strace: Exit of unknown pid NNNNN ignored

Therefore update the signal handling state like dequeue_signal
would when removing a per thread SIGKILL, by removing SIGKILL
from the per thread signal mask and clearing TIF_SIGPENDING.

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ivan Delalande &lt;colona@arista.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 35634ffa1751 ("signal: Always notice exiting tasks")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit cf43a757fd49442bc38f76088b70c2299eed2c2f upstream.

In the middle of do_exit() there is there is a call
"ptrace_event(PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT, code);" That call places the process
in TACKED_TRACED aka "(TASK_WAKEKILL | __TASK_TRACED)" and waits for
for the debugger to release the task or SIGKILL to be delivered.

Skipping past dequeue_signal when we know a fatal signal has already
been delivered resulted in SIGKILL remaining pending and
TIF_SIGPENDING remaining set.  This in turn caused the
scheduler to not sleep in PTACE_EVENT_EXIT as it figured
a fatal signal was pending.  This also caused ptrace_freeze_traced
in ptrace_check_attach to fail because it left a per thread
SIGKILL pending which is what fatal_signal_pending tests for.

This difference in signal state caused strace to report
strace: Exit of unknown pid NNNNN ignored

Therefore update the signal handling state like dequeue_signal
would when removing a per thread SIGKILL, by removing SIGKILL
from the per thread signal mask and clearing TIF_SIGPENDING.

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ivan Delalande &lt;colona@arista.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 35634ffa1751 ("signal: Always notice exiting tasks")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: Better detection of synchronous signals</title>
<updated>2019-02-20T09:13:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-06T23:51:47+00:00</published>
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commit 7146db3317c67b517258cb5e1b08af387da0618b upstream.

Recently syzkaller was able to create unkillablle processes by
creating a timer that is delivered as a thread local signal on SIGHUP,
and receiving SIGHUP SA_NODEFERER.  Ultimately causing a loop failing
to deliver SIGHUP but always trying.

When the stack overflows delivery of SIGHUP fails and force_sigsegv is
called.  Unfortunately because SIGSEGV is numerically higher than
SIGHUP next_signal tries again to deliver a SIGHUP.

From a quality of implementation standpoint attempting to deliver the
timer SIGHUP signal is wrong.  We should attempt to deliver the
synchronous SIGSEGV signal we just forced.

We can make that happening in a fairly straight forward manner by
instead of just looking at the signal number we also look at the
si_code.  In particular for exceptions (aka synchronous signals) the
si_code is always greater than 0.

That still has the potential to pick up a number of asynchronous
signals as in a few cases the same si_codes that are used
for synchronous signals are also used for asynchronous signals,
and SI_KERNEL is also included in the list of possible si_codes.

Still the heuristic is much better and timer signals are definitely
excluded.  Which is enough to prevent all known ways for someone
sending a process signals fast enough to cause unexpected and
arguably incorrect behavior.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a27341cd5fcb ("Prioritize synchronous signals over 'normal' signals")
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7146db3317c67b517258cb5e1b08af387da0618b upstream.

Recently syzkaller was able to create unkillablle processes by
creating a timer that is delivered as a thread local signal on SIGHUP,
and receiving SIGHUP SA_NODEFERER.  Ultimately causing a loop failing
to deliver SIGHUP but always trying.

When the stack overflows delivery of SIGHUP fails and force_sigsegv is
called.  Unfortunately because SIGSEGV is numerically higher than
SIGHUP next_signal tries again to deliver a SIGHUP.

From a quality of implementation standpoint attempting to deliver the
timer SIGHUP signal is wrong.  We should attempt to deliver the
synchronous SIGSEGV signal we just forced.

We can make that happening in a fairly straight forward manner by
instead of just looking at the signal number we also look at the
si_code.  In particular for exceptions (aka synchronous signals) the
si_code is always greater than 0.

That still has the potential to pick up a number of asynchronous
signals as in a few cases the same si_codes that are used
for synchronous signals are also used for asynchronous signals,
and SI_KERNEL is also included in the list of possible si_codes.

Still the heuristic is much better and timer signals are definitely
excluded.  Which is enough to prevent all known ways for someone
sending a process signals fast enough to cause unexpected and
arguably incorrect behavior.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a27341cd5fcb ("Prioritize synchronous signals over 'normal' signals")
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: Always notice exiting tasks</title>
<updated>2019-02-20T09:13:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-07T00:39:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=381fc50960aa551da7abb4a630fde2d0aee737b4'/>
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commit 35634ffa1751b6efd8cf75010b509dcb0263e29b upstream.

Recently syzkaller was able to create unkillablle processes by
creating a timer that is delivered as a thread local signal on SIGHUP,
and receiving SIGHUP SA_NODEFERER.  Ultimately causing a loop
failing to deliver SIGHUP but always trying.

Upon examination it turns out part of the problem is actually most of
the solution.  Since 2.5 signal delivery has found all fatal signals,
marked the signal group for death, and queued SIGKILL in every threads
thread queue relying on signal-&gt;group_exit_code to preserve the
information of which was the actual fatal signal.

The conversion of all fatal signals to SIGKILL results in the
synchronous signal heuristic in next_signal kicking in and preferring
SIGHUP to SIGKILL.  Which is especially problematic as all
fatal signals have already been transformed into SIGKILL.

Instead of dequeueing signals and depending upon SIGKILL to
be the first signal dequeued, first test if the signal group
has already been marked for death.  This guarantees that
nothing in the signal queue can prevent a process that needs
to exit from exiting.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Ref: ebf5ebe31d2c ("[PATCH] signal-fixes-2.5.59-A4")
History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 35634ffa1751b6efd8cf75010b509dcb0263e29b upstream.

Recently syzkaller was able to create unkillablle processes by
creating a timer that is delivered as a thread local signal on SIGHUP,
and receiving SIGHUP SA_NODEFERER.  Ultimately causing a loop
failing to deliver SIGHUP but always trying.

Upon examination it turns out part of the problem is actually most of
the solution.  Since 2.5 signal delivery has found all fatal signals,
marked the signal group for death, and queued SIGKILL in every threads
thread queue relying on signal-&gt;group_exit_code to preserve the
information of which was the actual fatal signal.

The conversion of all fatal signals to SIGKILL results in the
synchronous signal heuristic in next_signal kicking in and preferring
SIGHUP to SIGKILL.  Which is especially problematic as all
fatal signals have already been transformed into SIGKILL.

Instead of dequeueing signals and depending upon SIGKILL to
be the first signal dequeued, first test if the signal group
has already been marked for death.  This guarantees that
nothing in the signal queue can prevent a process that needs
to exit from exiting.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Ref: ebf5ebe31d2c ("[PATCH] signal-fixes-2.5.59-A4")
History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: Always deliver the kernel's SIGKILL and SIGSTOP to a pid namespace init</title>
<updated>2018-11-21T08:27:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-03T18:02:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9ab9fc44d3de6053e4193e737b06a333609c80da'/>
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[ Upstream commit 3597dfe01d12f570bc739da67f857fd222a3ea66 ]

Instead of playing whack-a-mole and changing SEND_SIG_PRIV to
SEND_SIG_FORCED throughout the kernel to ensure a pid namespace init
gets signals sent by the kernel, stop allowing a pid namespace init to
ignore SIGKILL or SIGSTOP sent by the kernel.  A pid namespace init is
only supposed to be able to ignore signals sent from itself and
children with SIG_DFL.

Fixes: 921cf9f63089 ("signals: protect cinit from unblocked SIG_DFL signals")
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 3597dfe01d12f570bc739da67f857fd222a3ea66 ]

Instead of playing whack-a-mole and changing SEND_SIG_PRIV to
SEND_SIG_FORCED throughout the kernel to ensure a pid namespace init
gets signals sent by the kernel, stop allowing a pid namespace init to
ignore SIGKILL or SIGSTOP sent by the kernel.  A pid namespace init is
only supposed to be able to ignore signals sent from itself and
children with SIG_DFL.

Fixes: 921cf9f63089 ("signals: protect cinit from unblocked SIG_DFL signals")
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/signal.c: avoid undefined behaviour in kill_something_info</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:48:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>zhongjiang</name>
<email>zhongjiang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-10T22:52:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=cb1c92e55420dad73ce717ef4029dd6e984dcbd0'/>
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commit 4ea77014af0d6205b05503d1c7aac6eace11d473 upstream.

When running kill(72057458746458112, 0) in userspace I hit the following
issue.

  UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in kernel/signal.c:1462:11
  negation of -2147483648 cannot be represented in type 'int':
  CPU: 226 PID: 9849 Comm: test Tainted: G    B          ---- -------   3.10.0-327.53.58.70.x86_64_ubsan+ #116
  Hardware name: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. RH8100 V3/BC61PBIA, BIOS BLHSV028 11/11/2014
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
    ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x50
    __ubsan_handle_negate_overflow+0x109/0x14e
    SYSC_kill+0x43e/0x4d0
    SyS_kill+0xe/0x10
    system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Add code to avoid the UBSAN detection.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496670008-59084-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhongjiang &lt;zhongjiang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Xishi Qiu &lt;qiuxishi@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 4ea77014af0d6205b05503d1c7aac6eace11d473 upstream.

When running kill(72057458746458112, 0) in userspace I hit the following
issue.

  UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in kernel/signal.c:1462:11
  negation of -2147483648 cannot be represented in type 'int':
  CPU: 226 PID: 9849 Comm: test Tainted: G    B          ---- -------   3.10.0-327.53.58.70.x86_64_ubsan+ #116
  Hardware name: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. RH8100 V3/BC61PBIA, BIOS BLHSV028 11/11/2014
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
    ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x50
    __ubsan_handle_negate_overflow+0x109/0x14e
    SYSC_kill+0x43e/0x4d0
    SyS_kill+0xe/0x10
    system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Add code to avoid the UBSAN detection.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496670008-59084-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhongjiang &lt;zhongjiang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Xishi Qiu &lt;qiuxishi@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signals: avoid unnecessary taking of sighand-&gt;siglock</title>
<updated>2018-05-26T06:48:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Waiman Long</name>
<email>Waiman.Long@hpe.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-14T23:04:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=eae31bc183db0281c51e09a2830d70ca20e22562'/>
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commit c7be96af89d4b53211862d8599b2430e8900ed92 upstream.

When running certain database workload on a high-end system with many
CPUs, it was found that spinlock contention in the sigprocmask syscalls
became a significant portion of the overall CPU cycles as shown below.

  9.30%  9.30%  905387  dataserver  /proc/kcore 0x7fff8163f4d2
  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irq
            |
            ---_raw_spin_lock_irq
               |
               |--99.34%-- __set_current_blocked
               |          sigprocmask
               |          sys_rt_sigprocmask
               |          system_call_fastpath
               |          |
               |          |--50.63%-- __swapcontext
               |          |          |
               |          |          |--99.91%-- upsleepgeneric
               |          |
               |          |--49.36%-- __setcontext
               |          |          ktskRun

Looking further into the swapcontext function in glibc, it was found that
the function always call sigprocmask() without checking if there are
changes in the signal mask.

A check was added to the __set_current_blocked() function to avoid taking
the sighand-&gt;siglock spinlock if there is no change in the signal mask.
This will prevent unneeded spinlock contention when many threads are
trying to call sigprocmask().

With this patch applied, the spinlock contention in sigprocmask() was
gone.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474979209-11867-1-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;Waiman.Long@hpe.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Stas Sergeev &lt;stsp@list.ru&gt;
Cc: Scott J Norton &lt;scott.norton@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Douglas Hatch &lt;doug.hatch@hpe.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: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c7be96af89d4b53211862d8599b2430e8900ed92 upstream.

When running certain database workload on a high-end system with many
CPUs, it was found that spinlock contention in the sigprocmask syscalls
became a significant portion of the overall CPU cycles as shown below.

  9.30%  9.30%  905387  dataserver  /proc/kcore 0x7fff8163f4d2
  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irq
            |
            ---_raw_spin_lock_irq
               |
               |--99.34%-- __set_current_blocked
               |          sigprocmask
               |          sys_rt_sigprocmask
               |          system_call_fastpath
               |          |
               |          |--50.63%-- __swapcontext
               |          |          |
               |          |          |--99.91%-- upsleepgeneric
               |          |
               |          |--49.36%-- __setcontext
               |          |          ktskRun

Looking further into the swapcontext function in glibc, it was found that
the function always call sigprocmask() without checking if there are
changes in the signal mask.

A check was added to the __set_current_blocked() function to avoid taking
the sighand-&gt;siglock spinlock if there is no change in the signal mask.
This will prevent unneeded spinlock contention when many threads are
trying to call sigprocmask().

With this patch applied, the spinlock contention in sigprocmask() was
gone.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474979209-11867-1-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;Waiman.Long@hpe.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Stas Sergeev &lt;stsp@list.ru&gt;
Cc: Scott J Norton &lt;scott.norton@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Douglas Hatch &lt;doug.hatch@hpe.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: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>kernel/signal.c: remove the no longer needed SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE check in complete_signal()</title>
<updated>2018-01-10T08:27:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-17T23:30:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5f1aa83c58aaeb36a2a69256a87c86a44edbd425'/>
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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 -&gt;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) &amp;&amp; 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 &gt; 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-&gt;jobctl &amp; JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING)) in
task_participate_group_stop().  do_signal_stop()-&gt;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@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Kyle Huey &lt;me@kylehuey.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Kyle Huey &lt;me@kylehuey.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 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 -&gt;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) &amp;&amp; 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 &gt; 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-&gt;jobctl &amp; JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING)) in
task_participate_group_stop().  do_signal_stop()-&gt;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@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Kyle Huey &lt;me@kylehuey.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Kyle Huey &lt;me@kylehuey.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;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/signal.c: protect the SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE tasks from !sig_kernel_only() signals</title>
<updated>2018-01-10T08:27:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-17T23:30:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7a7f54f8e390a696d147686fb2188d3ba93f6096'/>
<id>7a7f54f8e390a696d147686fb2188d3ba93f6096</id>
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commit ac25385089f673560867eb5179228a44ade0cfc1 upstream.

Change sig_task_ignored() to drop the SIG_DFL &amp;&amp; !sig_kernel_only()
signals even if force == T.  This simplifies the next change and this
matches the same check in get_signal() which will drop these signals
anyway.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171103184227.GC21036@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kyle Huey &lt;me@kylehuey.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 ac25385089f673560867eb5179228a44ade0cfc1 upstream.

Change sig_task_ignored() to drop the SIG_DFL &amp;&amp; !sig_kernel_only()
signals even if force == T.  This simplifies the next change and this
matches the same check in get_signal() which will drop these signals
anyway.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171103184227.GC21036@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kyle Huey &lt;me@kylehuey.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;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/signal.c: protect the traced SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE tasks from SIGKILL</title>
<updated>2018-01-10T08:27:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-17T23:30:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=be95f1308f794861877af032bbb5b6ea48ca66a5'/>
<id>be95f1308f794861877af032bbb5b6ea48ca66a5</id>
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commit 628c1bcba204052d19b686b5bac149a644cdb72e upstream.

The comment in sig_ignored() says "Tracers may want to know about even
ignored signals" but SIGKILL can not be reported to debugger and it is
just wrong to return 0 in this case: SIGKILL should only kill the
SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE task if it comes from the parent ns.

Change sig_ignored() to ignore -&gt;ptrace if sig == SIGKILL and rely on
sig_task_ignored().

SISGTOP coming from within the namespace is not really right too but at
least debugger can intercept it, and we can't drop it here because this
will break "gdb -p 1": ptrace_attach() won't work.  Perhaps we will add
another -&gt;ptrace check later, we will see.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171103184206.GB21036@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kyle Huey &lt;me@kylehuey.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 628c1bcba204052d19b686b5bac149a644cdb72e upstream.

The comment in sig_ignored() says "Tracers may want to know about even
ignored signals" but SIGKILL can not be reported to debugger and it is
just wrong to return 0 in this case: SIGKILL should only kill the
SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE task if it comes from the parent ns.

Change sig_ignored() to ignore -&gt;ptrace if sig == SIGKILL and rely on
sig_task_ignored().

SISGTOP coming from within the namespace is not really right too but at
least debugger can intercept it, and we can't drop it here because this
will break "gdb -p 1": ptrace_attach() won't work.  Perhaps we will add
another -&gt;ptrace check later, we will see.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171103184206.GB21036@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kyle Huey &lt;me@kylehuey.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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