From f9070dc94542093fd516ae4ccea17ef46a4362c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 12:29:52 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] signal/pid_namespace: Fix reboot_pid_ns to use send_sig not force_sig The locking in force_sig_info is not prepared to deal with a task that exits or execs (as sighand may change). The is not a locking problem in force_sig as force_sig is only built to handle synchronous exceptions. Further the function force_sig_info changes the signal state if the signal is ignored, or blocked or if SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE will prevent the delivery of the signal. The signal SIGKILL can not be ignored and can not be blocked and SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE won't prevent it from being delivered. So using force_sig rather than send_sig for SIGKILL is confusing and pointless. Because it won't impact the sending of the signal and and because using force_sig is wrong, replace force_sig with send_sig. Cc: Daniel Lezcano Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: Oleg Nesterov Fixes: cf3f89214ef6 ("pidns: add reboot_pid_ns() to handle the reboot syscall") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- kernel/pid_namespace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c index aa6e72fb7c08..098233ebe589 100644 --- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c +++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ int reboot_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns, int cmd) } read_lock(&tasklist_lock); - force_sig(SIGKILL, pid_ns->child_reaper); + send_sig(SIGKILL, pid_ns->child_reaper, 1); read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); do_exit(0);