[PATCH] more sigkill priority fix

[Atsushi Nemoto]

On Linux/MIPS, a simple test program can create unkillable process.
The "sigkill priority fix" was introduced in 2.6.12, but it does not
effective for signals sent by force_sig() in kernel.  For detailed
behavior and testcase, please look at this thread in linux-mips ML:

http://www.linux-mips.org/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=linux-mips&i=20050907.014234.108739386.anemo%40mba.ocn.ne.jp

Here is a proposal fix for generic signal handling code.

Patch comment:
The "sigkill priority fix" does not work as it desired if any signal
(< SIGKILL) was queued by force_sig() in kernel.  Search SIGKILL in
tsk->pending and tsk->signal->shared_pending first, then search
another signals.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

--- linux-2.6.13/kernel/signal.c	2005-08-29 08:41:01.000000000 +0900
+++ linux/kernel/signal.c	2005-09-07 01:33:52.338420760 +0900
@@ -520,19 +520,14 @@
 }
 
 static int __dequeue_signal(struct sigpending *pending, sigset_t *mask,
-			siginfo_t *info)
+			siginfo_t *info, int sig)
 {
-	int sig = 0;
-
-	/* SIGKILL must have priority, otherwise it is quite easy
-	 * to create an unkillable process, sending sig < SIGKILL
-	 * to self */
-	if (unlikely(sigismember(&pending->signal, SIGKILL))) {
-		if (!sigismember(mask, SIGKILL))
-			sig = SIGKILL;
-	}
-
-	if (likely(!sig))
+	if (sig) {
+		/* check signal with priority first */
+		if (likely(!sigismember(&pending->signal, sig)) ||
+		    sigismember(mask, sig))
+			sig = 0;
+	} else
 		sig = next_signal(pending, mask);
 	if (sig) {
 		if (current->notifier) {
@@ -561,10 +556,18 @@
  */
 int dequeue_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, sigset_t *mask, siginfo_t *info)
 {
-	int signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->pending, mask, info);
+	/* SIGKILL must have priority, otherwise it is quite easy
+	 * to create an unkillable process, sending sig < SIGKILL
+	 * to self */
+	int signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->pending, mask, info, SIGKILL);
+	if (likely(!signr))
+		signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->signal->shared_pending,
+					 mask, info, SIGKILL);
+	if (likely(!signr))
+		signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->pending, mask, info, 0);
 	if (!signr)
 		signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->signal->shared_pending,
-					 mask, info);
+					 mask, info, 0);
  	if (signr && unlikely(sig_kernel_stop(signr))) {
  		/*
  		 * Set a marker that we have dequeued a stop signal.  Our

---
Atsushi Nemoto
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