linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] swapper fixes (Was: kernel panic on kill(0, SIGTERM) with PGID == 0)

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Message-ID: <20100510214134.GA9318@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 10 May 2010 23:41:34 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Mathias Krause <Mathias.Krause@...unet.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] swapper fixes (Was: kernel panic on kill(0,
	SIGTERM) with PGID == 0)

On 05/10, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 May 2010 21:49:17 +0200
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Mathias Krause reports that a buggy (or special) /sbin/init can
> > crash the kernel if it sends a signal to its pgrp/sid before it
> > changes its initial (0,0) pids. See the changelog for 1/4.
> >
> > git-bisect blames "start the global /sbin/init with 0,0 special pids"
> > commit 430c623121ea88ca80595c99fdc63b7f8a803ae5, but in fact the
> > problem was caused by another change, see 2/4.
> >
> > The patches do not depend on each other, 3/4 fixes another problem,
> > 4/4 is purely cosmetic.
> >
>
> Do you see a need to merge these into 2.6.34?  (I don't)

No, the problem is minor, it is not possible to exploit it unless
/sbin/init does "bad things".

And the long CC asks for review. Although 1/4 is "obviously good" in
any case and I strongly believe 2/4 is right at least in general.

Oleg.

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