linux/kernel
Eric W. Biederman c3ad2c3b02 signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.
Wen Yang <wen.yang99@zte.com.cn> and majiang <ma.jiang@zte.com.cn>
report that a periodic signal received during fork can cause fork to
continually restart preventing an application from making progress.

The code was being overly pessimistic.  Fork needs to guarantee that a
signal sent to multiple processes is logically delivered before the
fork and just to the forking process or logically delivered after the
fork to both the forking process and it's newly spawned child.  For
signals like periodic timers that are always delivered to a single
process fork can safely complete and let them appear to logically
delivered after the fork().

While examining this issue I also discovered that fork today will miss
signals delivered to multiple processes during the fork and handled by
another thread.  Similarly the current code will also miss blocked
signals that are delivered to multiple process, as those signals will
not appear pending during fork.

Add a list of each thread that is currently forking, and keep on that
list a signal set that records all of the signals sent to multiple
processes.  When fork completes initialize the new processes
shared_pending signal set with it.  The calculate_sigpending function
will see those signals and set TIF_SIGPENDING causing the new task to
take the slow path to userspace to handle those signals.  Making it
appear as if those signals were received immediately after the fork.

It is not possible to send real time signals to multiple processes and
exceptions don't go to multiple processes, which means that that are
no signals sent to multiple processes that require siginfo.  This
means it is safe to not bother collecting siginfo on signals sent
during fork.

The sigaction of a child of fork is initially the same as the
sigaction of the parent process.  So a signal the parent ignores the
child will also initially ignore.  Therefore it is safe to ignore
signals sent to multiple processes and ignored by the forking process.

Signals sent to only a single process or only a single thread and delivered
during fork are treated as if they are received after the fork, and generally
not dealt with.  They won't cause any problems.

V2: Added removal from the multiprocess list on failure.
V3: Use -ERESTARTNOINTR directly
V4: - Don't queue both SIGCONT and SIGSTOP
    - Initialize signal_struct.multiprocess in init_task
    - Move setting of shared_pending to before the new task
      is visible to signals.  This prevents signals from comming
      in before shared_pending.signal is set to delayed.signal
      and being lost.
V5: - rework list add and delete to account for idle threads
v6: - Use sigdelsetmask when removing stop signals

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200447
Reported-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@zte.com.cn> and
Reported-by: majiang <ma.jiang@zte.com.cn>
Fixes: 4a2c7a7837 ("[PATCH] make fork() atomic wrt pgrp/session signals")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-08-09 13:07:01 -05:00
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bpf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-06-16 07:39:34 +09:00
cgroup docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
configs kconfig: tinyconfig: remove stale stack protector fixups 2018-06-15 07:15:28 +09:00
debug treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
events pid: Implement PIDTYPE_TGID 2018-07-21 10:43:12 -05:00
gcov gcov: remove CONFIG_GCOV_FORMAT_AUTODETECT 2018-06-08 18:56:02 +09:00
irq Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-10 09:44:53 -07:00
livepatch livepatch: Allow to call a custom callback when freeing shadow variables 2018-04-17 13:42:48 +02:00
locking treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
power fix a series of Documentation/ broken file name references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
printk Printk changes for 4.18 2018-06-06 16:04:55 -07:00
rcu treewide: Use array_size() in vmalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
sched signal: Add calculate_sigpending() 2018-08-03 20:10:31 -05:00
time signal: Pass pid and pid type into send_sigqueue 2018-07-21 10:43:12 -05:00
trace docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
.gitignore
acct.c kernel/acct.c: fix the acct->needcheck check in check_free_space() 2018-01-04 16:45:09 -08:00
async.c kernel/async.c: revert "async: simplify lowest_in_progress()" 2018-02-06 18:32:44 -08:00
audit_fsnotify.c fsnotify: add fsnotify_add_inode_mark() wrappers 2018-05-18 14:58:22 +02:00
audit_tree.c fsnotify: add fsnotify_add_inode_mark() wrappers 2018-05-18 14:58:22 +02:00
audit_watch.c \n 2018-06-17 05:06:18 +09:00
audit.c audit: use inline function to get audit context 2018-05-14 17:24:18 -04:00
audit.h audit: track the owner of the command mutex ourselves 2018-02-23 11:22:22 -05:00
auditfilter.c audit: use existing session info function 2018-05-18 15:47:54 -04:00
auditsc.c audit: Fix wrong task in comparison of session ID 2018-05-21 14:27:43 -04:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
compat.c Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-04 20:27:54 -07:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c cpu/hotplug: Fix unused function warning 2018-03-15 20:34:40 +01:00
crash_core.c mm: split page_type out from _mapcount 2018-06-07 17:34:37 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c delayacct: Use raw_spinlocks 2018-04-27 14:34:51 +02:00
dma.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
exit.c signal: Pass pid type into group_send_sig_info 2018-07-21 12:57:35 -05:00
extable.c extable: Make init_kernel_text() global 2018-02-21 16:54:06 +01:00
fail_function.c treewide: kmalloc() -> kmalloc_array() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
fork.c signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in. 2018-08-09 13:07:01 -05:00
freezer.c
futex_compat.c
futex.c pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid() helper 2018-02-06 18:32:46 -08:00
groups.c kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility group_info allocators 2017-12-14 16:00:49 -08:00
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: show all hung tasks before panic 2018-06-07 17:34:39 -07:00
iomem.c memremap: split devm_memremap_pages() and memremap() infrastructure 2018-05-15 23:08:33 -07:00
irq_work.c irq/work: Improve the flag definitions 2018-01-08 19:43:15 +01:00
jump_label.c jump_label: Disable jump labels in __exit code 2018-03-20 08:57:17 +01:00
kallsyms.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk 2018-02-01 13:36:15 -08:00
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kcov.c sched/core / kcov: avoid kcov_area during task switch 2018-06-15 07:55:24 +09:00
kexec_core.c kexec: yield to scheduler when loading kimage segments 2018-06-15 07:55:24 +09:00
kexec_file.c treewide: Use array_size() in vzalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
kexec_internal.h
kexec.c kexec: call do_kexec_load() in compat syscall directly 2018-04-02 20:15:01 +02:00
kmod.c
kprobes.c kprobes: Fix random address output of blacklist file 2018-04-25 10:27:56 -04:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c kthread: Allow kthread_park() on a parked kthread 2018-05-25 08:03:51 +02:00
latencytop.c
Makefile Merge branch 'core-rseq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-10 10:17:09 -07:00
memremap.c mm: introduce MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX and CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS 2018-05-22 06:59:39 -07:00
module_signing.c
module-internal.h
module.c Modules updates for v4.18 2018-06-16 07:36:39 +09:00
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c padata: add SPDX identifier 2018-01-05 18:43:00 +11:00
panic.c Kbuild: rename CC_STACKPROTECTOR[_STRONG] config variables 2018-06-14 12:21:18 +09:00
params.c kernel/params.c: downgrade warning for unsafe parameters 2018-04-11 10:28:37 -07:00
pid_namespace.c Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-03 19:15:32 -07:00
pid.c pid: Implement PIDTYPE_TGID 2018-07-21 10:43:12 -05:00
profile.c
ptrace.c pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid() helper 2018-02-06 18:32:46 -08:00
range.c
reboot.c kernel/reboot.c: add devm_register_reboot_notifier() 2017-11-17 16:10:04 -08:00
relay.c kernel/relay.c: change return type to vm_fault_t 2018-06-15 07:55:24 +09:00
resource.c libnvdimm for 4.18 2018-06-08 17:21:52 -07:00
rseq.c rseq: Introduce restartable sequences system call 2018-06-06 11:58:31 +02:00
seccomp.c audit/stable-4.18 PR 20180605 2018-06-06 16:34:00 -07:00
signal.c signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in. 2018-08-09 13:07:01 -05:00
smp.c smp/core: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled 2017-11-08 11:13:50 +01:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-04 19:59:22 -07:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c Linux 4.17-rc5 2018-05-15 08:10:50 +02:00
sys_ni.c Merge branch 'core-rseq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-10 10:17:09 -07:00
sys.c mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct 2018-06-07 17:34:34 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c staging: irda: remove remaining remants of irda code removal 2018-04-16 11:26:49 +02:00
sysctl.c treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
task_work.c locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE() 2017-12-17 13:57:15 +01:00
taskstats.c pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid() helper 2018-02-06 18:32:46 -08:00
test_kprobes.c
torture.c rcu: Rename cond_resched_rcu_qs() to cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() 2018-05-15 10:27:29 -07:00
tracepoint.c tracepoints: Fix the descriptions of tracepoint_probe_register{_prio} 2018-05-28 12:49:51 -04:00
tsacct.c
ucount.c headers: untangle kmemleak.h from mm.h 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
uid16.c fs: add do_fchownat(), ksys_fchown() helpers and ksys_{,l}chown() wrappers 2018-04-02 20:15:59 +02:00
uid16.h kernel: provide ksys_*() wrappers for syscalls called by kernel/uid16.c 2018-04-02 20:15:30 +02:00
umh.c umh: fix race condition 2018-06-07 16:56:28 -04:00
up.c
user_namespace.c treewide: kmalloc() -> kmalloc_array() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c efivarfs: Limit the rate for non-root to read files 2018-02-22 10:21:02 -08:00
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c uts: create "struct uts_namespace" from kmem_cache 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
watchdog_hld.c
watchdog.c Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to pick up fixes 2017-11-08 10:17:15 +01:00
workqueue_internal.h workqueue: Set worker->desc to workqueue name by default 2018-05-18 08:47:13 -07:00
workqueue.c treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00