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[PATCH] make fork() atomic wrt pgrp/session signals 

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Ok. SUSV3/Posix is clear, fork is atomic with respect
> to signals.  Either a signal comes before or after a
> fork but not during. (See the rationale section).
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/fork.html
>
> The tasklist_lock does not stop forks from adding to a process
> group. The forks stall while the tasklist_lock is held, but a fork
> that began before we grabbed the tasklist_lock simply completes
> afterwards, and the child does not receive the signal.

This also means that SIGSTOP or sig_kernel_coredump() signal can't
be delivered to pgrp/session reliably.

With this patch copy_process() returns -ERESTARTNOINTR when it
detects a pending signal, fork() will be restarted transparently
after handling the signals.

This patch also deletes now unneeded "group_stop_count > 0" check,
copy_process() can no longer succeed while group stop in progress.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-By: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
Oleg Nesterov 2006-03-28 16:11:26 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 47e65328a7
commit 4a2c7a7837
1 changed files with 17 additions and 20 deletions
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@ -1136,16 +1136,6 @@ static task_t *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
!cpu_online(task_cpu(p))))
set_task_cpu(p, smp_processor_id());
/*
* Check for pending SIGKILL! The new thread should not be allowed
* to slip out of an OOM kill. (or normal SIGKILL.)
*/
if (sigismember(&current->pending.signal, SIGKILL)) {
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
retval = -EINTR;
goto bad_fork_cleanup_namespace;
}
/* CLONE_PARENT re-uses the old parent */
if (clone_flags & (CLONE_PARENT|CLONE_THREAD))
p->real_parent = current->real_parent;
@ -1154,6 +1144,23 @@ static task_t *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
p->parent = p->real_parent;
spin_lock(&current->sighand->siglock);
/*
* Process group and session signals need to be delivered to just the
* parent before the fork or both the parent and the child after the
* fork. Restart if a signal comes in before we add the new process to
* it's process group.
* A fatal signal pending means that current will exit, so the new
* thread can't slip out of an OOM kill (or normal SIGKILL).
*/
recalc_sigpending();
if (signal_pending(current)) {
spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
retval = -ERESTARTNOINTR;
goto bad_fork_cleanup_namespace;
}
if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) {
/*
* Important: if an exit-all has been started then
@ -1170,16 +1177,6 @@ static task_t *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
p->group_leader = current->group_leader;
list_add_tail_rcu(&p->thread_group, &p->group_leader->thread_group);
if (current->signal->group_stop_count > 0) {
/*
* There is an all-stop in progress for the group.
* We ourselves will stop as soon as we check signals.
* Make the new thread part of that group stop too.
*/
current->signal->group_stop_count++;
set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SIGPENDING);
}
if (!cputime_eq(current->signal->it_virt_expires,
cputime_zero) ||
!cputime_eq(current->signal->it_prof_expires,