[ Upstream commit f9070dc94542093fd516ae4ccea17ef46a4362c5 ] The locking in force_sig_info is not prepared to deal with a task that exits or execs (as sighand may change). The is not a locking problem in force_sig as force_sig is only built to handle synchronous exceptions.
Further the function force_sig_info changes the signal state if the signal is ignored, or blocked or if SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE will prevent the delivery of the signal. The signal SIGKILL can not be ignored and can not be blocked and SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE won't prevent it from being delivered. So using force_sig rather than send_sig for SIGKILL is confusing and pointless. Because it won't impact the sending of the signal and and because using force_sig is wrong, replace force_sig with send_sig. Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezc...@free.fr> Cc: Serge Hallyn <se...@hallyn.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> Fixes: cf3f89214ef6 ("pidns: add reboot_pid_ns() to handle the reboot syscall") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebied...@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sas...@kernel.org> --- kernel/pid_namespace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c index 567ecc826bc8..6353372801f2 100644 --- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c +++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ int reboot_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns, int cmd) } read_lock(&tasklist_lock); - force_sig(SIGKILL, pid_ns->child_reaper); + send_sig(SIGKILL, pid_ns->child_reaper, 1); read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); do_exit(0); -- 2.20.1