Re: [PATCH v7 3/9] seccomp: introduce writer locking

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Tue Jun 24 2014 - 12:54:30 EST


Kees,

I am still trying to force myself to read and try to understand what
this series does ;) Just a minor nit so far.

On 06/23, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> @@ -1142,6 +1168,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
> {
> int retval;
> struct task_struct *p;
> + unsigned long irqflags;
>
> if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_FS)) == (CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_FS))
> return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> @@ -1196,7 +1223,6 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
> goto fork_out;
>
> ftrace_graph_init_task(p);
> - get_seccomp_filter(p);
>
> rt_mutex_init_task(p);
>
> @@ -1434,7 +1460,13 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
> p->parent_exec_id = current->self_exec_id;
> }
>
> - spin_lock(&current->sighand->siglock);
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&current->sighand->siglock, irqflags);
> +
> + /*
> + * Copy seccomp details explicitly here, in case they were changed
> + * before holding tasklist_lock.
> + */
> + copy_seccomp(p);
>
> /*
> * Process group and session signals need to be delivered to just the
> @@ -1446,7 +1478,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
> */
> recalc_sigpending();
> if (signal_pending(current)) {
> - spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&current->sighand->siglock, irqflags);
> write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
> retval = -ERESTARTNOINTR;
> goto bad_fork_free_pid;
> @@ -1486,7 +1518,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
> }
>
> total_forks++;
> - spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&current->sighand->siglock, irqflags);
> write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
> proc_fork_connector(p);
> cgroup_post_fork(p);

It seems that the only change copy_process() needs is copy_seccomp() under the locks.
Everythinh else (irqflags games) looks obviously unneeded?

> @@ -524,6 +528,9 @@ static long seccomp_set_mode(unsigned long seccomp_mode, char __user *filter)
> }
> #endif
>
> + if (unlikely(!lock_task_sighand(current, &irqflags)))
> + goto out_free;
> +

Unless this task is exiting (namely, it has already called exit_notify()),
lock_task_sighand(current) must not fail. Looks like you can simly do
spin_lock_irq(->siglock).

Oleg.

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