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From:   ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:     Ivan Delalande <colona@arista.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
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Date:   Thu, 07 Feb 2019 23:13:59 -0600
In-Reply-To: <20190206031029.GB9368@visor> (Ivan Delalande's message of "Tue,
        5 Feb 2019 19:10:29 -0800")
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] exec: don't force_sigsegv processes with a pending fatal signal
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Ivan Delalande <colona@arista.com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 01:11:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 18:53:08 -0800 Ivan Delalande <colona@arista.com> wrote:
>> > --- a/fs/exec.c
>> > +++ b/fs/exec.c
>> > @@ -1660,7 +1660,12 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
>> >  		if (retval < 0 && !bprm->mm) {
>> >  			/* we got to flush_old_exec() and failed after it */
>> >  			read_unlock(&binfmt_lock);
>> > -			force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV, current);
>> > +			if (!fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
>> > +				if (print_fatal_signals)
>> > +					pr_info("load_binary() failed: %d\n",
>> > +						retval);
>> 
>> Should we be using print_fatal_signal() here?
>
> I don't think so, the force_sigsegv() already ensures it will be called
> from get_signal() when the signal is handled, and so the process
> information will be printed then.
>
>> > +				force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV, current);
>> > +			}
>> >  			return retval;
>> >  		}
>> >  		if (retval != -ENOEXEC || !bprm->file) {
>


I just noticed this.  From  my patch queue that I intend to send to
Linus tomorrow. I think this change fixes your issue of getting
the SIGSEGV instead of the already pending fatal signal.

So I think this fixes your issue without any other code changes.
Ivan can you verify that the patch below is enough?


diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 9ca8e5278c8e..5424cb0006bc 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2393,6 +2393,11 @@ bool get_signal(struct ksignal *ksig)
                goto relock;
        }
 
+       /* Has this task already been marked for death? */
+       ksig->info.si_signo = signr = SIGKILL;
+       if (signal_group_exit(signal))
+               goto fatal;
+
        for (;;) {
                struct k_sigaction *ka;
 
@@ -2488,6 +2493,7 @@ bool get_signal(struct ksignal *ksig)
                        continue;
                }
 
+       fatal:
                spin_unlock_irq(&sighand->siglock);