fork: fix copy_process(CLONE_PARENT) race with the exiting ->real_parent
authorEddy Wu <itseddy0402@gmail.com>
Sat, 7 Nov 2020 06:47:22 +0000 (14:47 +0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 8 Nov 2020 19:18:39 +0000 (11:18 -0800)
current->group_leader->exit_signal may change during copy_process() if
current->real_parent exits.

Move the assignment inside tasklist_lock to avoid the race.

Signed-off-by: Eddy Wu <eddy_wu@trendmicro.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/fork.c

index 32083db..6d26638 100644 (file)
@@ -2167,14 +2167,9 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
        /* ok, now we should be set up.. */
        p->pid = pid_nr(pid);
        if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) {
-               p->exit_signal = -1;
                p->group_leader = current->group_leader;
                p->tgid = current->tgid;
        } else {
-               if (clone_flags & CLONE_PARENT)
-                       p->exit_signal = current->group_leader->exit_signal;
-               else
-                       p->exit_signal = args->exit_signal;
                p->group_leader = p;
                p->tgid = p->pid;
        }
@@ -2218,9 +2213,14 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
        if (clone_flags & (CLONE_PARENT|CLONE_THREAD)) {
                p->real_parent = current->real_parent;
                p->parent_exec_id = current->parent_exec_id;
+               if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)
+                       p->exit_signal = -1;
+               else
+                       p->exit_signal = current->group_leader->exit_signal;
        } else {
                p->real_parent = current;
                p->parent_exec_id = current->self_exec_id;
+               p->exit_signal = args->exit_signal;
        }
 
        klp_copy_process(p);