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Eric W. Biederman 0ab93e9c99 signal/GenWQE: Fix sending of SIGKILL
The genweq_add_file and genwqe_del_file by caching current without
using reference counting embed the assumption that a file descriptor
will never be passed from one process to another.  It even embeds the
assumption that the the thread that opened the file will be in
existence when the process terminates.   Neither of which are
guaranteed to be true.

Therefore replace caching the task_struct of the opener with
pid of the openers thread group id.  All the knowledge of the
opener is used for is as the target of SIGKILL and a SIGKILL
will kill the entire process group.

Rename genwqe_force_sig to genwqe_terminate, remove it's unncessary
signal argument, update it's ownly caller, and use kill_pid
instead of force_sig.

The work force_sig does in changing signal handling state is not
relevant to SIGKILL sent as SEND_SIG_PRIV.  The exact same processess
will be killed just with less work, and less confusion.  The work done
by force_sig is really only needed for handling syncrhonous
exceptions.

It will still be possible to cause genwqe_device_remove to wait
8 seconds by passing a file descriptor to another process but
the possible user after free is fixed.

Fixes: eaf4722d46 ("GenWQE Character device and DDCB queue")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Frank Haverkamp <haver@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Joerg-Stephan Vogt <jsvogt@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Jung <mijung@gmx.net>
Cc: Michael Ruettger <michael@ibmra.de>
Cc: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <klebers@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Eberhard S. Amann <esa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-09-15 16:07:19 +02:00
arch signal: Properly deliver SIGSEGV from x86 uprobes 2018-09-11 21:18:53 +02:00
block blk-wbt: don't maintain inflight counts if disabled 2018-08-23 09:34:46 -06:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto DMAengine updates for v4.19-rc1 2018-08-18 15:55:59 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-26 09:55:28 -07:00
drivers signal/GenWQE: Fix sending of SIGKILL 2018-09-15 16:07:19 +02:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs signal: Remove the siginfo paramater from kernel_dqueue_signal 2018-09-11 21:19:14 +02:00
include signal: Remove SEND_SIG_FORCED 2018-09-11 21:19:48 +02:00
init Kbuild updates for v4.19 (2nd) 2018-08-25 13:40:38 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.c: update return value of ipc_getref from int to bool 2018-08-22 10:52:52 -07:00
kernel signal: Remove SEND_SIG_FORCED 2018-09-11 21:19:48 +02:00
lib Merge branch 'ida-4.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax 2018-08-26 11:48:42 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm signal: Use SEND_SIG_PRIV not SEND_SIG_FORCED with SIGKILL and SIGSTOP 2018-09-11 21:19:35 +02:00
net Merge branch 'ida-4.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax 2018-08-26 11:48:42 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: all XDP samples should unload xdp/bpf prog on SIGTERM 2018-08-16 21:55:32 +02:00
scripts gcc plugin fix: 2018-08-26 11:41:08 -07:00
security + Cleanups 2018-08-24 13:00:33 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-08-23 19:20:12 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'ida-4.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax 2018-08-26 11:48:42 -07:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt ARM: Support for Group0 interrupts in guests, Cache management 2018-08-22 13:52:44 -07:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.19-rc1 2018-08-26 14:11:59 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.