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
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
To handle posix timer signals on sigaction(SIG_IGN) properly, the timers will be queued on a separate ignored list. Add the necessary cleanup code for timer_delete() and exit_itimers(). 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/20241105064213.987530588@linutronix.de
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
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
In preparation for handling ignored posix timer signals correctly and embedding the sigqueue struct into struct k_itimer, hand down a pointer to the sigqueue struct into posix_timer_deliver_signal() instead of just having a boolean flag. No functional change. 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/20241105064213.652658158@linutronix.de
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
instead of re-evaluating the signal delivery mode everywhere. 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/20241105064213.519086500@linutronix.de
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. Provide a new function to initialize the embedded sigqueue to prepare for that. 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/20241105064213.450427515@linutronix.de
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. To make that work correctly it needs reference counting so that timer deletion does not free the timer prematuraly when there is a signal queued or delivered concurrently. Add a rcuref to the posix timer part. 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/20241105064213.304756440@linutronix.de