[PATCH v2 20/20] signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.

[Eric W. Biederman]

Wen Yang <wen.yang99@xxxxxxxxxx> and majiang <ma.jiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
report that a periodic signal received during fork can cause fork to
continually restart preventing an application from making progress.

The code was being overly pesimistic.  Fork needs to guarantee that a
signal sent to multiple processes is logically delivered before the
fork and just to the forking process or logically delivered after the
fork to both the forking process and it's newly spawned child.  For
signals like periodic timers that are always delivered to a single
process fork can safely complete and let them appear to logically
delivered after the fork().

While examining this issue I also discovered that fork today will miss
signals delivered to multiple processes during the fork and handled by
another thread.  Similarly the current code will also miss blocked
signals that are delivered to multiple process, as those signals will
not appear pending during fork.

Add a list of each thread that is currently forking, and keep on that
list a signal set that records all of the signals sent to multiple
processes.  When fork completes initialize the new processes
shared_pending signal set with it.  The calculate_sigpending function
will see those signals and set TIF_SIGPENDING causing the new task to
take the slow path to userspace to handle those signals.  Making it
appear as if those signals were received immediately after the fork.

It is not possible to send real time signals to multiple processes and
exceptions don't go to multiple processes, which means that that are
no signals sent to multiple processes that require siginfo.  This
means it is safe to not bother collecting siginfo on signals sent
during fork.

The sigaction of a child of fork is initially the same as the
sigaction of the parent process.  So a signal the parent ignores the
child will also initially ignore.  Therefore it is safe to ignore
signals sent to multiple processes and ignored by the forking process.

Signals sent to only a single process or only a single thread and delivered
during fork are treated as if they are received after the fork, and generally
not dealt with.  They won't cause any problems.

V2: Added removal from the multiprocess list on failure.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200447
Reported-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@xxxxxxxxxx> and
Reported-by: majiang <ma.jiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 4a2c7a7837da ("[PATCH] make fork() atomic wrt pgrp/session signals")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/sched/signal.h |  8 +++++++
 kernel/fork.c                | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 kernel/signal.c              |  9 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/signal.h b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
index f3507bf165d0..62262021cf7e 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
@@ -69,6 +69,11 @@ struct thread_group_cputimer {
 	bool checking_timer;
 };
 
+struct multiprocess_signals {
+	sigset_t signal;
+	struct hlist_node node;
+};
+
 /*
  * NOTE! "signal_struct" does not have its own
  * locking, because a shared signal_struct always
@@ -90,6 +95,9 @@ struct signal_struct {
 	/* shared signal handling: */
 	struct sigpending	shared_pending;
 
+	/* For collecting multiprocess signals during fork */
+	struct hlist_head	multiprocess;
+
 	/* thread group exit support */
 	int			group_exit_code;
 	/* overloaded:
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 6c358846a8b8..7cd3d22bca94 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1456,6 +1456,7 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	init_waitqueue_head(&sig->wait_chldexit);
 	sig->curr_target = tsk;
 	init_sigpending(&sig->shared_pending);
+	INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&sig->multiprocess);
 	seqlock_init(&sig->stats_lock);
 	prev_cputime_init(&sig->prev_cputime);
 
@@ -1602,6 +1603,7 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 {
 	int retval;
 	struct task_struct *p;
+	struct multiprocess_signals delayed;
 
 	/*
 	 * Don't allow sharing the root directory with processes in a different
@@ -1649,6 +1651,25 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 			return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Force any signals received before this point to be delivered
+	 * before the fork happens.  Collect up signals sent to multiple
+	 * processes that happen during the fork and delay them so that
+	 * they appear to happen after the fork.
+	 */
+	sigemptyset(&delayed.signal);
+	INIT_HLIST_NODE(&delayed.node);
+
+	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+	if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD))
+		hlist_add_head(&delayed.node, &current->signal->multiprocess);
+	recalc_sigpending();
+	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+	if (signal_pending(current)) {
+		retval = restart_syscall();
+		goto fork_out;
+	}
+
 	retval = -ENOMEM;
 	p = dup_task_struct(current, node);
 	if (!p)
@@ -1934,22 +1955,6 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 		goto bad_fork_cancel_cgroup;
 	}
 
-	if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)) {
-		/*
-		 * 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)) {
-			retval = -ERESTARTNOINTR;
-			goto bad_fork_cancel_cgroup;
-		}
-	}
-
 
 	init_task_pid_links(p);
 	if (likely(p->pid)) {
@@ -1979,6 +1984,8 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 			attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_TGID);
 			attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PGID);
 			attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_SID);
+			p->signal->shared_pending.signal = delayed.signal;
+			hlist_del(&delayed.node);
 			__this_cpu_inc(process_counts);
 		} else {
 			current->signal->nr_threads++;
@@ -2060,6 +2067,11 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 	put_task_stack(p);
 	free_task(p);
 fork_out:
+	if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)) {
+		spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+		hlist_del(&delayed.node);
+		spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+	}
 	return ERR_PTR(retval);
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 78e2d5d196f3..5b1aab94daf6 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1123,6 +1123,15 @@ static int __send_signal(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t,
 out_set:
 	signalfd_notify(t, sig);
 	sigaddset(&pending->signal, sig);
+
+	/* Let multiprocess signals appear after on-going forks */
+	if (type > PIDTYPE_TGID) {
+		struct multiprocess_signals *delayed;
+		hlist_for_each_entry(delayed, &t->signal->multiprocess, node) {
+			sigaddset(&delayed->signal, sig);
+		}
+	}
+
 	complete_signal(sig, t, type);
 ret:
 	trace_signal_generate(sig, info, t, type != PIDTYPE_PID, result);
-- 
2.17.1