Commit
8f92054e7ca1 ("CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner
comment") fixed the lockdep checks on __task_cred(). This has shown up
a place in the signalling code where a lock should be held - namely that
check_kill_permission() requires its callers to hold the RCU lock.
Fix group_send_sig_info() to get the RCU read lock around its call to
check_kill_permission().
Without this patch, the following warning can occur:
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[ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
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kernel/signal.c:660 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
...
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/*
* Bad permissions for sending the signal
- * - the caller must hold at least the RCU read lock
+ * - the caller must hold the RCU read lock
*/
static int check_kill_permission(int sig, struct siginfo *info,
struct task_struct *t)
/*
* send signal info to all the members of a group
- * - the caller must hold the RCU read lock at least
*/
int group_send_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *p)
{
- int ret = check_kill_permission(sig, info, p);
+ int ret;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ ret = check_kill_permission(sig, info, p);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
if (!ret && sig)
ret = do_send_sig_info(sig, info, p, true);