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Eric W. Biederman 84fe4cc09a signal: Don't send signals to tasks that don't exist
Recently syzbot reported crashes in send_sigio_to_task and
send_sigurg_to_task in linux-next.  Despite finding a reproducer
syzbot apparently did not bisected this or otherwise track down the
offending commit in linux-next.

I happened to see this report and examined the code because I had
recently changed these functions as part of making PIDTYPE_TGID a real
pid type so that fork would does not need to restart when receiving a
signal.  By examination I see that I spotted a bug in the code
that could explain the reported crashes.

When I took Oleg's suggestion and optimized send_sigurg and send_sigio
to only send to a single task when type is PIDTYPE_PID or PIDTYPE_TGID
I failed to handle pids that no longer point to tasks.  The macro
do_each_pid_task simply iterates for zero iterations.  With pid_task
an explicit NULL test is needed.

Update the code to include the missing NULL test.

Fixes: 019191342f ("signal: Use PIDTYPE_TGID to clearly store where file signals will be sent")
Reported-by: syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-08-15 23:03:20 -05:00
Documentation for-linus-20180616 2018-06-17 05:37:55 +09:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
arch pid: Implement PIDTYPE_TGID 2018-07-21 10:43:12 -05:00
block for-linus-20180616 2018-06-17 05:37:55 +09:00
certs docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
crypto docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
drivers signal: Pass pid type into do_send_sig_info 2018-07-21 12:57:35 -05:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs signal: Don't send signals to tasks that don't exist 2018-08-15 23:03:20 -05:00
include signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in. 2018-08-09 13:07:01 -05:00
init signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in. 2018-08-09 13:07:01 -05:00
ipc ipc: use new return type vm_fault_t 2018-06-15 07:55:25 +09:00
kernel signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in. 2018-08-09 13:07:01 -05:00
lib docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
mm signal: Pass pid type into do_send_sig_info 2018-07-21 12:57:35 -05:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-06-16 07:39:34 +09:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.18 2018-06-12 13:11:26 -07:00
scripts scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: check tools/*/Documentation 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
security docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
sound docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
tools Solve a series of broken links for files under Documentation: 2018-06-17 05:25:18 +09:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt kvm: Don't open code task_pid in kvm_vcpu_ioctl 2018-07-21 10:43:12 -05:00
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.mailmap Merge branch 'asoc-4.17' into asoc-4.18 for compress dependencies 2018-04-26 12:24:28 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Solve a series of broken links for files under Documentation: 2018-06-17 05:25:18 +09:00
Makefile Linux 4.18-rc1 2018-06-17 08:04:49 +09:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.