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author | Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2009-04-02 16:58:08 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-04-02 19:04:58 -0700 |
commit | b3bfa0cba867f23365b81658b47efd906830879b (patch) | |
tree | e54d9a9c4c23fc00bb2ff3ed57ef5317a0660ea5 /kernel/signal.c | |
parent | e4da026f980df125a4918c3bb9fe93185c7ef12a (diff) | |
download | lwn-b3bfa0cba867f23365b81658b47efd906830879b.tar.gz lwn-b3bfa0cba867f23365b81658b47efd906830879b.zip |
signals: protect cinit from blocked fatal signals
Normally SIG_DFL signals to global and container-init are dropped early.
But if a signal is blocked when it is posted, we cannot drop the signal
since the receiver may install a handler before unblocking the signal.
Once this signal is queued however, the receiver container-init has no way
of knowing if the signal was sent from an ancestor or descendant
namespace. This patch ensures that contianer-init drops all SIG_DFL
signals in get_signal_to_deliver() except SIGKILL/SIGSTOP.
If SIGSTOP/SIGKILL originate from a descendant of container-init they are
never queued (i.e dropped in sig_ignored() in an earler patch).
If SIGSTOP/SIGKILL originate from parent namespace, the signal is queued
and container-init processes the signal.
IOW, if get_signal_to_deliver() sees a sig_kernel_only() signal for global
or container-init, the signal must have been generated internally or must
have come from an ancestor ns and we process the signal.
Further, the signal_group_exit() check was needed to cover the case of a
multi-threaded init sending SIGKILL to other threads when doing an exit()
or exec(). But since the new sig_kernel_only() check covers the SIGKILL,
the signal_group_exit() check is no longer needed and can be removed.
Finally, now that we have all pieces in place, set SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE for
container-inits.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/signal.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/signal.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index fb19aae2363b..ba3da25f0eea 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -1870,9 +1870,16 @@ relock: /* * Global init gets no signals it doesn't want. + * Container-init gets no signals it doesn't want from same + * container. + * + * Note that if global/container-init sees a sig_kernel_only() + * signal here, the signal must have been generated internally + * or must have come from an ancestor namespace. In either + * case, the signal cannot be dropped. */ if (unlikely(signal->flags & SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE) && - !signal_group_exit(signal)) + !sig_kernel_only(signr)) continue; if (sig_kernel_stop(signr)) { |