signals: fix sigqueue_free() vs __exit_signal() race

__exit_signal() does flush_sigqueue(tsk->pending) outside of ->siglock.
This can race with another thread doing sigqueue_free(), we can free the
same SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC sigqueue twice or corrupt the pending->list.

Note that even sys_exit_group() can trigger this race, not only
sys_timer_delete().

Move the callsite of flush_sigqueue(tsk->pending) under ->siglock.

This patch doesn't touch flush_sigqueue(->shared_pending) below, it is
called when there are no other threads which can play with signals, and
sigqueue_free() can't be used outside of our thread group.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 1510f78a0ffa..8f6185e69b69 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -126,6 +126,12 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
 
         __unhash_process(tsk);
 
+        /*
+         * Do this under ->siglock, we can race with another thread
+         * doing sigqueue_free() if we have SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC signals.
+         */
+        flush_sigqueue(&tsk->pending);
+
         tsk->signal = NULL;
         tsk->sighand = NULL;
         spin_unlock(&sighand->siglock);
@@ -133,7 +139,6 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
 
         __cleanup_sighand(sighand);
         clear_tsk_thread_flag(tsk,TIF_SIGPENDING);
-        flush_sigqueue(&tsk->pending);
         if (sig) {
                 flush_sigqueue(&sig->shared_pending);
                 taskstats_tgid_free(sig);