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signals: fix /sbin/init protection from unwanted signals
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The global init has a lot of long standing problems with the unhandled fatal
signals.

	- The "is_global_init(current)" check in get_signal_to_deliver()
	  protects only the main thread. Sub-thread can dequee the fatal
	  signal and shutdown the whole thread group except the main thread.
	  If it dequeues SIGSTOP /sbin/init will be stopped, this is not
	  right too. Note that we can't use is_global_init(->group_leader),
	  this breaks exec and this can't solve other problems we have.

	- Even if afterwards ignored, the fatal signals sets SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT
	  on delivery. This breaks exec, has other bad implications, and this
	  is just wrong.

Introduce the new SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE flag to fix these problems.  It also helps
to solve some other problems addressed by the subsequent patches.

Currently we use this flag for the global init only, but it could also be used
by kthreads and (perhaps) by the sub-namespace inits.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Oleg Nesterov authored and torvalds committed Apr 30, 2008
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/sched.h
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Expand Up @@ -561,6 +561,8 @@ struct signal_struct {
#define SIGNAL_CLD_CONTINUED 0x00000020
#define SIGNAL_CLD_MASK (SIGNAL_CLD_STOPPED|SIGNAL_CLD_CONTINUED)

#define SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE 0x00000040 /* for init: ignore fatal signals */

/* If true, all threads except ->group_exit_task have pending SIGKILL */
static inline int signal_group_exit(const struct signal_struct *sig)
{
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions init/main.c
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Expand Up @@ -802,6 +802,8 @@ static int noinline init_post(void)
(void) sys_dup(0);
(void) sys_dup(0);

current->signal->flags |= SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE;

if (ramdisk_execute_command) {
run_init_process(ramdisk_execute_command);
printk(KERN_WARNING "Failed to execute %s\n",
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9 changes: 6 additions & 3 deletions kernel/signal.c
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Expand Up @@ -728,7 +728,8 @@ static void complete_signal(int sig, struct task_struct *p, int group)
* Found a killable thread. If the signal will be fatal,
* then start taking the whole group down immediately.
*/
if (sig_fatal(p, sig) && !(signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT) &&
if (sig_fatal(p, sig) &&
!(signal->flags & (SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE | SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT)) &&
!sigismember(&t->real_blocked, sig) &&
(sig == SIGKILL || !(t->ptrace & PT_PTRACED))) {
/*
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} else {
struct task_struct *t;

if (!likely(sig->flags & SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED) ||
if (unlikely((sig->flags & (SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED | SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE))
!= SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED) ||
unlikely(signal_group_exit(sig)))
return 0;
/*
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/*
* Global init gets no signals it doesn't want.
*/
if (is_global_init(current))
if (unlikely(signal->flags & SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE) &&
!signal_group_exit(signal))
continue;

if (sig_kernel_stop(signr)) {
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