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author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2018-08-15 21:20:46 -0500 |
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committer | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2018-08-15 23:03:20 -0500 |
commit | 84fe4cc09abc1a5ef3a282db3ed10f4d3f1e6a0b (patch) | |
tree | 8bca92f3c76e42aee803946cd458a0c081862884 /mm | |
parent | c3ad2c3b02e953ead2b8d52a0c9e70312930c3d0 (diff) | |
download | linux-84fe4cc09abc1a5ef3a282db3ed10f4d3f1e6a0b.tar.bz2 |
signal: Don't send signals to tasks that don't exist
Recently syzbot reported crashes in send_sigio_to_task and
send_sigurg_to_task in linux-next. Despite finding a reproducer
syzbot apparently did not bisected this or otherwise track down the
offending commit in linux-next.
I happened to see this report and examined the code because I had
recently changed these functions as part of making PIDTYPE_TGID a real
pid type so that fork would does not need to restart when receiving a
signal. By examination I see that I spotted a bug in the code
that could explain the reported crashes.
When I took Oleg's suggestion and optimized send_sigurg and send_sigio
to only send to a single task when type is PIDTYPE_PID or PIDTYPE_TGID
I failed to handle pids that no longer point to tasks. The macro
do_each_pid_task simply iterates for zero iterations. With pid_task
an explicit NULL test is needed.
Update the code to include the missing NULL test.
Fixes: 019191342fec ("signal: Use PIDTYPE_TGID to clearly store where file signals will be sent")
Reported-by: syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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