From 06e62a46bbba20aa5286102016a04214bb446141 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jann Horn Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:00:58 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] fork: don't copy inconsistent signal handler state to child Before this change, if a multithreaded process forks while one of its threads is changing a signal handler using sigaction(), the memcpy() in copy_sighand() can race with the struct assignment in do_sigaction(). It isn't clear whether this can cause corruption of the userspace signal handler pointer, but it definitely can cause inconsistency between different fields of struct sigaction. Take the appropriate spinlock to avoid this. I have tested that this patch prevents inconsistency between sa_sigaction and sa_flags, which is possible before this patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180702145108.73189-1-jannh@google.com Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/fork.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 8bcef2413f1b..23eb960c701d 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1427,7 +1427,9 @@ static int copy_sighand(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) return -ENOMEM; atomic_set(&sig->count, 1); + spin_lock_irq(¤t->sighand->siglock); memcpy(sig->action, current->sighand->action, sizeof(sig->action)); + spin_unlock_irq(¤t->sighand->siglock); return 0; } -- 2.20.1