linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 147/410] alpha: fix crash if pthread

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Message-ID: <lsq.1528380321.249903861@decadent.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:05:21 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Mikulas Patocka" <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
        "Matt Turner" <mattst88@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 147/410] alpha: fix crash if pthread_create races
 with signal delivery

3.16.57-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>

commit 21ffceda1c8b3807615c40d440d7815e0c85d366 upstream.

On alpha, a process will crash if it attempts to start a thread and a
signal is delivered at the same time. The crash can be reproduced with
this program: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-11/msg00473.html

The reason for the crash is this:
* we call the clone syscall
* we go to the function copy_process
* copy process calls copy_thread_tls, it is a wrapper around copy_thread
* copy_thread sets the tls pointer: childti->pcb.unique = regs->r20
* copy_thread sets regs->r20 to zero
* we go back to copy_process
* copy process checks "if (signal_pending(current))" and returns
  -ERESTARTNOINTR
* the clone syscall is restarted, but this time, regs->r20 is zero, so
  the new thread is created with zero tls pointer
* the new thread crashes in start_thread when attempting to access tls

The comment in the code says that setting the register r20 is some
compatibility with OSF/1. But OSF/1 doesn't use the CLONE_SETTLS flag, so
we don't have to zero r20 if CLONE_SETTLS is set. This patch fixes the bug
by zeroing regs->r20 only if CLONE_SETTLS is not set.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 arch/alpha/kernel/process.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
@@ -274,12 +274,13 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, u
 	   application calling fork.  */
 	if (clone_flags & CLONE_SETTLS)
 		childti->pcb.unique = regs->r20;
+	else
+		regs->r20 = 0;	/* OSF/1 has some strange fork() semantics.  */
 	childti->pcb.usp = usp ?: rdusp();
 	*childregs = *regs;
 	childregs->r0 = 0;
 	childregs->r19 = 0;
 	childregs->r20 = 1;	/* OSF/1 has some strange fork() semantics.  */
-	regs->r20 = 0;
 	stack = ((struct switch_stack *) regs) - 1;
 	*childstack = *stack;
 	childstack->r26 = (unsigned long) ret_from_fork;