linux-kernel - [PATCH] CRED: Fix RCU warning due to previous patch fixing __task

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Date:	Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:59:14 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, jolsa@...hat.com,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] CRED: Fix RCU warning due to previous patch fixing
	__task_cred()'s checks

A previous patch:

	commit 8f92054e7ca1d3a3ae50fb42d2253ac8730d9b2a
	Author: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
	Date:   Thu Jul 29 12:45:55 2010 +0100
	Subject: CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner comment

fixed the lockdep checks on __task_cred().  This has shown up a place in the
signalling code where a lock should be held - namely that
check_kill_permission() requires its callers to hold the RCU lock.

Fix group_send_sig_info() to get the RCU read lock around its call to
check_kill_permission().

Without this patch, the following warning can occur:

[  140.173556] ===================================================
[  140.215379] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
[  140.216461] ---------------------------------------------------
[  140.217530] kernel/signal.c:660 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
[  140.218937]
[  140.218938] other info that might help us debug this:
[  140.218939]
[  140.220508]
[  140.220509] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
[  140.221991] 1 lock held by init/1:
[  140.222668]  #0:  (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<c104a0ac>] kill_something_info+0x7c/0x160
[  140.224709]
[  140.224711] stack backtrace:
[  140.225661] Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.35 #1
[  140.226576] Call Trace:
[  140.227111]  [<c103cca8>] ? printk+0x18/0x20
[  140.227908]  [<c1069884>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x94/0xb0
[  140.228931]  [<c104936a>] check_kill_permission+0x15a/0x170
[  140.229932]  [<c104a0ac>] ? kill_something_info+0x7c/0x160
[  140.230921]  [<c1049cca>] group_send_sig_info+0x1a/0x50
[  140.231866]  [<c1049d36>] __kill_pgrp_info+0x36/0x60
[  140.232780]  [<c104a0d0>] kill_something_info+0xa0/0x160
[  140.233740]  [<c10831c5>] ? __call_rcu+0xa5/0x110
[  140.234596]  [<c104b7ee>] sys_kill+0x5e/0x70
[  140.235387]  [<c10d1eee>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x1e/0xa0
[  140.236329]  [<c10bbd10>] ? __fput+0x170/0x220
[  140.257756]  [<c10bbdd9>] ? fput+0x19/0x20
[  140.258529]  [<c137ad94>] ? restore_all_notrace+0x0/0x18
[  140.259496]  [<c11bfb04>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10
[  140.260531]  [<c137ad61>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[  144.627841] nfsd: last server has exited, flushing export cache
[  154.040420] Restarting system.
[  154.041061] machine restart

Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---

 kernel/signal.c |    9 ++++++---
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 906ae5a..bded651 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ static inline bool si_fromuser(const struct siginfo *info)
 
 /*
  * Bad permissions for sending the signal
- * - the caller must hold at least the RCU read lock
+ * - the caller must hold the RCU read lock
  */
 static int check_kill_permission(int sig, struct siginfo *info,
 				 struct task_struct *t)
@@ -1127,11 +1127,14 @@ struct sighand_struct *lock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long
 
 /*
  * send signal info to all the members of a group
- * - the caller must hold the RCU read lock at least
  */
 int group_send_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *p)
 {
-	int ret = check_kill_permission(sig, info, p);
+	int ret;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	ret = check_kill_permission(sig, info, p);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	if (!ret && sig)
 		ret = do_send_sig_info(sig, info, p, true);

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