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* | coredump: ensure that SIGKILL always kills the dumping threadOleg Nesterov2013-04-301-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | prepare_signal() blesses SIGKILL sent to the dumping process but this signal can be "lost" anyway. The problems is, complete_signal() sees SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT and skips the "kill them all" logic. And even if the dumping process is single-threaded (so the target is always "correct"), the group-wide SIGKILL is not recorded in task->pending and thus __fatal_signal_pending() won't be true. A multi-threaded case has even more problems. And even ignoring all technical details, SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT doesn't look right to me. This coredumping process is not exiting yet, it can do a lot of work dumping the core. With this patch the dumping process doesn't have SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT, we set signal->group_exit_task instead. This makes signal_group_exit() true and thus this should equally close the races with exit/exec/stop but allows to kill the dumping thread reliably. Notes: - It is not clear what should we do with ->group_exit_code if the dumper was killed, see the next change. - we need more (hopefully straightforward) changes to ensure that SIGKILL actually interrupts the coredump. Basically we need to check __fatal_signal_pending() in dump_write() and dump_seek(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | coredump: only SIGKILL should interrupt the coredumping taskOleg Nesterov2013-04-301-8/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are 2 well known and ancient problems with coredump/signals, and a lot of related bug reports: - do_coredump() clears TIF_SIGPENDING but of course this can't help if, say, SIGCHLD comes after that. In this case the coredump can fail unexpectedly. See for example wait_for_dump_helper()->signal_pending() check but there are other reasons. - At the same time, dumping a huge core on the slow media can take a lot of time/resources and there is no way to kill the coredumping task reliably. In particular this is not oom_kill-friendly. This patch tries to fix the 1st problem, and makes the preparation for the next changes. We add the new SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP flag set by zap_threads() to indicate that this process dumps the core. prepare_signal() checks this flag and nacks any signal except SIGKILL. Note that this check tries to be conservative, in the long term we should probably treat the SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT case equally but this needs more discussion. See marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120508897917439 Notes: - recalc_sigpending() doesn't check SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP. The patch assumes that dump_write/etc paths should never call it, but we can change it as well. - There is another source of TIF_SIGPENDING, freezer. This will be addressed separately. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | usermodehelper: split remaining calls to call_usermodehelper_fns()Lucas De Marchi2013-04-301-3/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These are the only users of call_usermodehelper_fns(). This function suffers from not being able to determine if the cleanup is called. Even if in this places the cleanup pointer is NULL, convert them to use the separate call_usermodehelper_setup() + call_usermodehelper_exec() functions so we can remove the _fns variant. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | coredump: remove trailling whitespaceLucas De Marchi2013-04-301-3/+3
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* coredump: remove redundant defines for dumpable statesKees Cook2013-02-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The existing SUID_DUMP_* defines duplicate the newer SUID_DUMPABLE_* defines introduced in 54b501992dd2 ("coredump: warn about unsafe suid_dumpable / core_pattern combo"). Remove the new ones, and use the prior values instead. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reported-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* new helper: file_inode(file)Al Viro2013-02-221-2/+2
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argumentAl Viro2012-11-291-2/+2
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* fix a leak in replace_fd() usersAl Viro2012-10-161-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | replace_fd() began with "eats a reference, tries to insert into descriptor table" semantics; at some point I'd switched it to much saner current behaviour ("try to insert into descriptor table, grabbing a new reference if inserted; caller should do fput() in any case"), but forgot to update the callers. Mea culpa... [Spotted by Pavel Roskin, who has really weird system with pipe-fed coredumps as part of what he considers a normal boot ;-)] Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* coredump: pass siginfo_t* to do_coredump() and below, not merely signrDenys Vlasenko2012-10-061-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a preparatory patch for the introduction of NT_SIGINFO elf note. With this patch we pass "siginfo_t *siginfo" instead of "int signr" to do_coredump() and put it into coredump_params. It will be used by the next patch. Most changes are simple s/signr/siginfo->si_signo/. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: "Jonathan M. Foote" <jmfoote@cert.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* coredump: add support for %d=__get_dumpable() in core nameOleg Nesterov2012-10-061-3/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some coredump handlers want to create a core file in a way compatible with standard behavior. Standard behavior with fs.suid_dumpable = 2 is to create core file with uid=gid=0. However, there was no way for coredump handler to know that the process being dumped was suid'ed. This patch adds the new %d specifier for format_corename() which simply reports __get_dumpable(mm->flags), this is compatible with /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable we already have. Addresses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787135 Developed during a discussion with Denys Vlasenko. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc@redhat.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* coredump: update coredump-related headersAlex Kelly2012-10-061-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Create a new header file, fs/coredump.h, which contains functions only used by the new coredump.c. It also moves do_coredump to the include/linux/coredump.h header file, for consistency. Signed-off-by: Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* coredump: move core dump functionality into its own fileAlex Kelly2012-10-021-0/+686
This prepares for making core dump functionality optional. The variable "suid_dumpable" and associated functions are left in fs/exec.c because they're used elsewhere, such as in ptrace. Signed-off-by: Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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