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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2014-12-10 15:55:02 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-10 17:41:17 -0800
commit7d24e2df52f596a1ea922e4f84a61f2fb24fbb70 (patch)
tree45f2b9d7af1852338c9e0db11107c504f3dfcf31 /kernel/exit.c
parent8a1296aea4a319b33c3367ff3805835e949a229f (diff)
downloadlinux-7d24e2df52f596a1ea922e4f84a61f2fb24fbb70.tar.gz
exit: reparent: fix the cross-namespace PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER reparenting
find_new_reaper() assumes that "has_child_subreaper" logic is safe as
long as we are not the exiting ->child_reaper and this is doubly wrong:

1. In fact it is safe if "pid_ns->child_reaper == father"; there must
   be no children after zap_pid_ns_processes() returns, so it doesn't
   matter what we return in this case and even pid_ns->child_reaper is
   wrong otherwise: we can't reparent to ->child_reaper == current.

   This is not a bug, but this is confusing.

2. It is not safe if we are not pid_ns->child_reaper but from the same
   thread group. We drop tasklist_lock before zap_pid_ns_processes(),
   so another thread can lock it and choose the new reaper from the
   upper namespace if has_child_subreaper == T, and this is obviously
   wrong.

   This is not that bad, zap_pid_ns_processes() won't return until the
   the new reaper reaps all zombies, but this should be fixed anyway.

We could change for_each_thread() loop to use ->exit_state instead of
PF_EXITING which we had to use until 8aac62706ada, or we could change
copy_signal() to check CLONE_NEWPID before setting has_child_subreaper,
but lets change this code so that it is clear we can't look outside of
our namespace, otherwise same_thread_group(reaper, child_reaper) check
will look wrong and confusing anyway.

We can simply start from "father" and fix the problem. We can't wrongly
return a thread from the same thread group if ->is_child_subreaper == T,
we know that all threads have PF_EXITING set.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Cc: Sterling Alexander <stalexan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index fd38a8f04367..9babd47a36e2 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -492,7 +492,9 @@ static struct task_struct *find_new_reaper(struct task_struct *father)
 
 		zap_pid_ns_processes(pid_ns);
 		write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
-	} else if (father->signal->has_child_subreaper) {
+	}
+
+	if (father->signal->has_child_subreaper) {
 		struct task_struct *reaper;
 
 		/*
@@ -502,7 +504,7 @@ static struct task_struct *find_new_reaper(struct task_struct *father)
 		 * PID namespace. However we still need the check above, see
 		 * http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=131385460420380
 		 */
-		for (reaper = father->real_parent;
+		for (reaper = father;
 		     reaper != &init_task;
 		     reaper = reaper->real_parent) {
 			if (same_thread_group(reaper, pid_ns->child_reaper))