tree 35bbae1a2cdc1887ea1d85aa9c03ec0415dc5912
parent 99db67bc04af0f2e8cb710ac92aaeb9af135a7c6
author Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> 1188543395 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> 1188549743 -0700

sigqueue_free: fix the race with collect_signal()

Spotted by taoyue <yue.tao@windriver.com> and Jeremy Katz <jeremy.katz@windriver.com>.

collect_signal:				sigqueue_free:

	list_del_init(&first->list);
						if (!list_empty(&q->list)) {
							// not taken
						}
						q->flags &= ~SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC;

	__sigqueue_free(first);			__sigqueue_free(q);

Now, __sigqueue_free() is called twice on the same "struct sigqueue" with the
obviously bad implications.

In particular, this double free breaks the array_cache->avail logic, so the
same sigqueue could be "allocated" twice, and the bug can manifest itself via
the "impossible" BUG_ON(!SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC) in sigqueue_free/send_sigqueue.

Hopefully this can explain these mysterious bug-reports, see

	http://marc.info/?t=118766926500003
	http://marc.info/?t=118466273000005

Alexey Dobriyan reports this patch makes the difference for the testcase, but
nobody has an access to the application which opened the problems originally.

Also, this patch removes tasklist lock/unlock, ->siglock is enough.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: taoyue <yue.tao@windriver.com>
Cc: Jeremy Katz <jeremy.katz@windriver.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>