linux-toradex.git/include/linux/sched/signal.h, branch v5.0-rc7

signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo

2018-10-03T14:47:43+00:00

Linus recently observed that if we did not worry about the padding
member in struct siginfo it is only about 48 bytes, and 48 bytes is
much nicer than 128 bytes for allocating on the stack and copying
around in the kernel.

The obvious thing of only adding the padding when userspace is
including siginfo.h won't work as there are sigframe definitions in
the kernel that embed struct siginfo.

So split siginfo in two; kernel_siginfo and siginfo.  Keeping the
traditional name for the userspace definition.  While the version that
is used internally to the kernel and ultimately will not be padded to
128 bytes is called kernel_siginfo.

The definition of struct kernel_siginfo I have put in include/signal_types.h

A set of buildtime checks has been added to verify the two structures have
the same field offsets.

To make it easy to verify the change kernel_siginfo retains the same
size as siginfo.  The reduction in size comes in a following change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

signal: Remove SEND_SIG_FORCED

2018-09-11T19:19:48+00:00

There are no more users of SEND_SIG_FORCED so it may be safely removed.

Remove the definition of SEND_SIG_FORCED, it's use in is_si_special,
it's use in TP_STORE_SIGINFO, and it's use in __send_signal as without
any users the uses of SEND_SIG_FORCED are now unncessary.

This makes the code simpler, easier to understand and use.  Users of
signal sending functions now no longer need to ask themselves do I
need to use SEND_SIG_FORCED.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

signal: Remove the siginfo paramater from kernel_dqueue_signal

2018-09-11T19:19:14+00:00

None of the callers use the it so remove it.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2018-08-22T19:34:08+00:00

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - the rest of MM

 - procfs updates

 - various misc things

 - more y2038 fixes

 - get_maintainer updates

 - lib/ updates

 - checkpatch updates

 - various epoll updates

 - autofs updates

 - hfsplus

 - some reiserfs work

 - fatfs updates

 - signal.c cleanups

 - ipc/ updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (166 commits)
  ipc/util.c: update return value of ipc_getref from int to bool
  ipc/util.c: further variable name cleanups
  ipc: simplify ipc initialization
  ipc: get rid of ids->tables_initialized hack
  lib/rhashtable: guarantee initial hashtable allocation
  lib/rhashtable: simplify bucket_table_alloc()
  ipc: drop ipc_lock()
  ipc/util.c: correct comment in ipc_obtain_object_check
  ipc: rename ipcctl_pre_down_nolock()
  ipc/util.c: use ipc_rcu_putref() for failues in ipc_addid()
  ipc: reorganize initialization of kern_ipc_perm.seq
  ipc: compute kern_ipc_perm.id under the ipc lock
  init/Kconfig: remove EXPERT from CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  fs/sysv/inode.c: use ktime_get_real_seconds() for superblock stamp
  adfs: use timespec64 for time conversion
  kernel/sysctl.c: fix typos in comments
  drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: remove redundant pointer md
  fork: don't copy inconsistent signal handler state to child
  signal: make get_signal() return bool
  signal: make sigkill_pending() return bool
  ...

signal: make force_sigsegv() void

2018-08-22T17:52:50+00:00

Patch series "signal: refactor some functions", v3.

This series refactors a bunch of functions in signal.c to simplify parts
of the code.

The greatest single change is declaring the static do_sigpending() helper
as void which makes it possible to remove a bunch of unnecessary checks in
the syscalls later on.

This patch (of 17):

force_sigsegv() returned 0 unconditionally so it doesn't make sense to have
it return at all. In addition, there are no callers that check
force_sigsegv()'s return value.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180602103653.18181-2-christian@brauner.io
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Morris 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.

2018-08-09T18:07:01+00:00

Wen Yang  and majiang 
report that a periodic signal received during fork can cause fork to
continually restart preventing an application from making progress.

The code was being overly pessimistic.  Fork needs to guarantee that a
signal sent to multiple processes is logically delivered before the
fork and just to the forking process or logically delivered after the
fork to both the forking process and it's newly spawned child.  For
signals like periodic timers that are always delivered to a single
process fork can safely complete and let them appear to logically
delivered after the fork().

While examining this issue I also discovered that fork today will miss
signals delivered to multiple processes during the fork and handled by
another thread.  Similarly the current code will also miss blocked
signals that are delivered to multiple process, as those signals will
not appear pending during fork.

Add a list of each thread that is currently forking, and keep on that
list a signal set that records all of the signals sent to multiple
processes.  When fork completes initialize the new processes
shared_pending signal set with it.  The calculate_sigpending function
will see those signals and set TIF_SIGPENDING causing the new task to
take the slow path to userspace to handle those signals.  Making it
appear as if those signals were received immediately after the fork.

It is not possible to send real time signals to multiple processes and
exceptions don't go to multiple processes, which means that that are
no signals sent to multiple processes that require siginfo.  This
means it is safe to not bother collecting siginfo on signals sent
during fork.

The sigaction of a child of fork is initially the same as the
sigaction of the parent process.  So a signal the parent ignores the
child will also initially ignore.  Therefore it is safe to ignore
signals sent to multiple processes and ignored by the forking process.

Signals sent to only a single process or only a single thread and delivered
during fork are treated as if they are received after the fork, and generally
not dealt with.  They won't cause any problems.

V2: Added removal from the multiprocess list on failure.
V3: Use -ERESTARTNOINTR directly
V4: - Don't queue both SIGCONT and SIGSTOP
    - Initialize signal_struct.multiprocess in init_task
    - Move setting of shared_pending to before the new task
      is visible to signals.  This prevents signals from comming
      in before shared_pending.signal is set to delayed.signal
      and being lost.
V5: - rework list add and delete to account for idle threads
v6: - Use sigdelsetmask when removing stop signals

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200447
Reported-by: Wen Yang  and
Reported-by: majiang 
Fixes: 4a2c7a7837da ("[PATCH] make fork() atomic wrt pgrp/session signals")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

fork: Have new threads join on-going signal group stops

2018-08-04T01:20:14+00:00

There are only two signals that are delivered to every member of a
signal group: SIGSTOP and SIGKILL.  Signal delivery requires every
signal appear to be delivered either before or after a clone syscall.
SIGKILL terminates the clone so does not need to be considered.  Which
leaves only SIGSTOP that needs to be considered when creating new
threads.

Today in the event of a group stop TIF_SIGPENDING will get set and the
fork will restart ensuring the fork syscall participates in the group
stop.

A fork (especially of a process with a lot of memory) is one of the
most expensive system so we really only want to restart a fork when
necessary.

It is easy so check to see if a SIGSTOP is ongoing and have the new
thread join it immediate after the clone completes.  Making it appear
the clone completed happened just before the SIGSTOP.

The calculate_sigpending function will see the bits set in jobctl and
set TIF_SIGPENDING to ensure the new task takes the slow path to userspace.

V2: The call to task_join_group_stop was moved before the new task is
    added to the thread group list.  This should not matter as
    sighand->siglock is held over both the addition of the threads,
    the call to task_join_group_stop and do_signal_stop.  But the change
    is trivial and it is one less thing to worry about when reading
    the code.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

signal: Add calculate_sigpending()

2018-08-04T01:10:31+00:00

Add a function calculate_sigpending to test to see if any signals are
pending for a new task immediately following fork.  Signals have to
happen either before or after fork.  Today our practice is to push
all of the signals to before the fork, but that has the downside that
frequent or periodic signals can make fork take much much longer than
normal or prevent fork from completing entirely.

So we need move signals that we can after the fork to prevent that.

This updates the code to set TIF_SIGPENDING on a new task if there
are signals or other activities that have moved so that they appear
to happen after the fork.

As the code today restarts if it sees any such activity this won't
immediately have an effect, as there will be no reason for it
to set TIF_SIGPENDING immediately after the fork.

Adding calculate_sigpending means the code in fork can safely be
changed to not always restart if a signal is pending.

The new calculate_sigpending function sets sigpending if there
are pending bits in jobctl, pending signals, the freezer needs
to freeze the new task or the live kernel patching framework
need the new thread to take the slow path to userspace.

I have verified that setting TIF_SIGPENDING does make a new process
take the slow path to userspace before it executes it's first userspace
instruction.

I have looked at the callers of signal_wake_up and the code paths
setting TIF_SIGPENDING and I don't see anything else that needs to be
handled.  The code probably doesn't need to set TIF_SIGPENDING for the
kernel live patching as it uses a separate thread flag as well.  But
at this point it seems safer reuse the recalc_sigpending logic and get
the kernel live patching folks to sort out their story later.

V2: I have moved the test into schedule_tail where siglock can
    be grabbed and recalc_sigpending can be reused directly.
    Further as the last action of setting up a new task this
    guarantees that TIF_SIGPENDING will be properly set in the
    new process.

    The helper calculate_sigpending takes the siglock and
    uncontitionally sets TIF_SIGPENDING and let's recalc_sigpending
    clear TIF_SIGPENDING if it is unnecessary.  This allows reusing
    the existing code and keeps maintenance of the conditions simple.

    Oleg Nesterov   suggested the movement
    and pointed out the need to take siglock if this code
    was going to be called while the new task is discoverable.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

signal: Pass pid and pid type into send_sigqueue

2018-07-21T15:43:12+00:00

Make the code more maintainable by performing more of the signal
related work in send_sigqueue.

A quick inspection of do_timer_create will show that this code path
does not lookup a thread group by a thread's pid.  Making it safe
to find the task pointed to by it_pid with "pid_task(it_pid, type)";

This supports the changes needed in fork to tell if a signal was sent
to a single process or a group of processes.

Having the pid to task transition in signal.c will also make it easier
to sort out races with de_thread and and the thread group leader
exiting when it comes time to address that.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

pid: Implement PIDTYPE_TGID

2018-07-21T15:43:12+00:00

Everywhere except in the pid array we distinguish between a tasks pid and
a tasks tgid (thread group id).  Even in the enumeration we want that
distinction sometimes so we have added __PIDTYPE_TGID.  With leader_pid
we almost have an implementation of PIDTYPE_TGID in struct signal_struct.

Add PIDTYPE_TGID as a first class member of the pid_type enumeration and
into the pids array.  Then remove the __PIDTYPE_TGID special case and the
leader_pid in signal_struct.

The net size increase is just an extra pointer added to struct pid and
an extra pair of pointers of an hlist_node added to task_struct.

The effect on code maintenance is the removal of a number of special
cases today and the potential to remove many more special cases as
PIDTYPE_TGID gets used to it's fullest.  The long term potential
is allowing zombie thread group leaders to exit, which will remove
a lot more special cases in the code.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"