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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2021-09-22 11:24:02 -0500
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2021-10-08 12:06:02 -0500
commit0258b5fd7c7124b87e185a1a9322d2c66b1876b7 (patch)
tree55800c054b48245841afec2f62605d0ef8990dd6 /kernel/fork.c
parent92307383082daff5df884a25df9e283efb7ef261 (diff)
coredump: Limit coredumps to a single thread group
Today when a signal is delivered with a handler of SIG_DFL whose default behavior is to generate a core dump not only that process but every process that shares the mm is killed. In the case of vfork this looks like a real world problem. Consider the following well defined sequence. if (vfork() == 0) { execve(...); _exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } If a signal that generates a core dump is received after vfork but before the execve changes the mm the process that called vfork will also be killed (as the mm is shared). Similarly if the execve fails after the point of no return the kernel delivers SIGSEGV which will kill both the exec'ing process and because the mm is shared the process that called vfork as well. As far as I can tell this behavior is a violation of people's reasonable expectations, POSIX, and is unnecessarily fragile when the system is low on memory. Solve this by making a userspace visible change to only kill a single process/thread group. This is possible because Jann Horn recently modified[1] the coredump code so that the mm can safely be modified while the coredump is happening. With LinuxThreads long gone I don't expect anyone to have a notice this behavior change in practice. To accomplish this move the core_state pointer from mm_struct to signal_struct, which allows different thread groups to coredump simultatenously. In zap_threads remove the work to kill anything except for the current thread group. v2: Remove core_state from the VM_BUG_ON_MM print to fix compile failure when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> [1] a07279c9a8cd ("binfmt_elf, binfmt_elf_fdpic: use a VMA list snapshot") Fixes: d89f3847def4 ("[PATCH] thread-aware coredumps, 2.5.43-C3") History-tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87y27mvnke.fsf@disp2133 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211007144701.67592574@canb.auug.org.au Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 9bd9f2da9e41..c8adb76982f7 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1044,7 +1044,6 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
seqcount_init(&mm->write_protect_seq);
mmap_init_lock(mm);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mm->mmlist);
- mm->core_state = NULL;
mm_pgtables_bytes_init(mm);
mm->map_count = 0;
mm->locked_vm = 0;