alpha: fix crash if pthread_create races with signal delivery
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@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
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@ -269,12 +269,13 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
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application calling fork. */
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if (clone_flags & CLONE_SETTLS)
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childti->pcb.unique = regs->r20;
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else
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regs->r20 = 0; /* OSF/1 has some strange fork() semantics. */
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childti->pcb.usp = usp ?: rdusp();
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*childregs = *regs;
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childregs->r0 = 0;
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childregs->r19 = 0;
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childregs->r20 = 1; /* OSF/1 has some strange fork() semantics. */
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regs->r20 = 0;
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stack = ((struct switch_stack *) regs) - 1;
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*childstack = *stack;
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childstack->r26 = (unsigned long) ret_from_fork;
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