This patch fixes a crash caused by an interrupt coming in when an IRQ
stack is being torn down. When this happens, handle_signal will loop,
setting up the IRQ stack again because the tearing down had finished,
and handling whatever signals had come in.
However, to_irq_stack returns a mask of pending signals to be handled,
plus bit zero is set if the IRQ stack was already active, and thus
shouldn't be torn down. This causes a problem because when
handle_signal goes around the loop, sig will be zero, and to_irq_stack
will duly set bit zero in the returned mask, faking handle_signal into
believing that it shouldn't tear down the IRQ stack and return
thread_info pointers back to their original values.
This will eventually cause a crash, as the IRQ stack thread_info will
continue pointing to the original task_struct and an interrupt will
look into it after it has been freed.
The fix is to stop passing a signal number into to_irq_stack. Rather,
the pending signals mask is initialized beforehand with the bit for
sig already set. References to sig in to_irq_stack can be replaced
with references to the mask.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
---
arch/um/include/kern_util.h | 2 +-
arch/um/kernel/irq.c | 7 ++++---
arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.17/arch/um/include/kern_util.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/arch/um/include/kern_util.h 2007-09-11 10:12:26.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.17/arch/um/include/kern_util.h 2007-09-18 12:31:28.000000000 -0400
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ extern void sigio_handler(int sig, union
extern void copy_sc(union uml_pt_regs *regs, void *from);
-unsigned long to_irq_stack(int sig, unsigned long *mask_out);
+extern unsigned long to_irq_stack(unsigned long *mask_out);
unsigned long from_irq_stack(int nested);
#endif
Index: linux-2.6.17/arch/um/kernel/irq.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/arch/um/kernel/irq.c 2007-09-11 10:14:09.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.17/arch/um/kernel/irq.c 2007-09-18 12:32:08.000000000 -0400
@@ -518,13 +518,13 @@ int init_aio_irq(int irq, char *name, ir
static unsigned long pending_mask;
-unsigned long to_irq_stack(int sig, unsigned long *mask_out)
+unsigned long to_irq_stack(unsigned long *mask_out)
{
struct thread_info *ti;
unsigned long mask, old;
int nested;
- mask = xchg(&pending_mask, 1 << sig);
+ mask = xchg(&pending_mask, *mask_out);
if(mask != 0){
/* If any interrupts come in at this point, we want to
* make sure that their bits aren't lost by our
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ unsigned long to_irq_stack(int sig, unsi
* and pending_mask contains a bit for each interrupt
* that came in.
*/
- old = 1 << sig;
+ old = *mask_out;
do {
old |= mask;
mask = xchg(&pending_mask, old);
@@ -550,6 +550,7 @@ unsigned long to_irq_stack(int sig, unsi
task = cpu_tasks[ti->cpu].task;
tti = task_thread_info(task);
+
*ti = *tti;
ti->real_thread = tti;
task->stack = ti;
Index: linux-2.6.17/arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c 2007-09-09 11:15:37.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.17/arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c 2007-09-18 12:32:40.000000000 -0400
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ void (*handlers[_NSIG])(int sig, struct
void handle_signal(int sig, struct sigcontext *sc)
{
- unsigned long pending = 0;
+ unsigned long pending = 1 << sig;
do {
int nested, bail;
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ void handle_signal(int sig, struct sigco
* have to return, and the upper handler will deal
* with this interrupt.
*/
- bail = to_irq_stack(sig, &pending);
+ bail = to_irq_stack(&pending);
if(bail)
return;
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