From 24ec839c431eb79bb8f6abc00c4e1eb3b8c4d517 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 02:36:04 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] tty: ->signal->tty locking Fix the locking of signal->tty. Use ->sighand->siglock to protect ->signal->tty; this lock is already used by most other members of ->signal/->sighand. And unless we are 'current' or the tasklist_lock is held we need ->siglock to access ->signal anyway. (NOTE: sys_unshare() is broken wrt ->sighand locking rules) Note that tty_mutex is held over tty destruction, so while holding tty_mutex any tty pointer remains valid. Otherwise the lifetime of ttys are governed by their open file handles. This leaves some holes for tty access from signal->tty (or any other non file related tty access). It solves the tty SLAB scribbles we were seeing. (NOTE: the change from group_send_sig_info to __group_send_sig_info needs to be examined by someone familiar with the security framework, I think it is safe given the SEND_SIG_PRIV from other __group_send_sig_info invocations) [schwidefsky@de.ibm.com: 3270 fix] [akpm@osdl.org: various post-viro fixes] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Alan Cox Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Chris Wright Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Stephen Smalley Cc: James Morris Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sys.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/sys.c') diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index a0c1a29a507f..1ac2d1c5d84e 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -1484,7 +1484,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_setsid(void) pid_t session; int err = -EPERM; - mutex_lock(&tty_mutex); write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); /* Fail if I am already a session leader */ @@ -1504,12 +1503,15 @@ asmlinkage long sys_setsid(void) group_leader->signal->leader = 1; __set_special_pids(session, session); + + spin_lock(&group_leader->sighand->siglock); group_leader->signal->tty = NULL; group_leader->signal->tty_old_pgrp = 0; + spin_unlock(&group_leader->sighand->siglock); + err = process_group(group_leader); out: write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); - mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex); return err; } -- cgit v1.2.2