On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 03:10:48PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 03:09:35PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 02:44:41PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > On 09/10, Eugene Syromiatnikov wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- a/kernel/fork.c
> > > > +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> > > > @@ -2562,6 +2562,9 @@ noinline static int 
> > > > copy_clone_args_from_user(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs,
> > > >         if (copy_from_user(&args, uargs, size))
> > > >                 return -EFAULT;
> > > >  
> > > > +       if (unlikely(((unsigned int)args.exit_signal) != 
> > > > args.exit_signal))
> > > > +               return -EINVAL;
> > > 
> > > Hmm. Unless I am totally confused you found a serious bug...
> > > 
> > > Without CLONE_THREAD/CLONE_PARENT copy_process() blindly does
> > > 
> > >   p->exit_signal = args->exit_signal;
> > > 
> > > the valid_signal(sig) check in do_notify_parent() mostly saves us, but we
> > > must not allow child->exit_signal < 0, if nothing else this breaks
> > > thread_group_leader().
> > > 
> > > And afaics this patch doesn't fix this? I think we need the valid_signal()
> > > check...
> > 
> > Thanks for sending this patch so quickly after our conversation
> > yesterday, Eugene!
> > We definitely want valid_signal() to verify the signal is ok.

So we could do your check in copy_clone_args_from_user(), and then we do
another valid_signal() check in clone3_args_valid()? We could do the
latter in copy_clone_args_from_user() too but it's nicer to do it along
the other checks in clone3_args_valid().

Christian

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