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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.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use UL]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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cfd-36 authored and Linus Torvalds committed Sep 19, 2007
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion arch/um/include/kern_util.h
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Expand Up @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ extern void sigio_handler(int sig, union uml_pt_regs *regs);

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
7 changes: 4 additions & 3 deletions arch/um/kernel/irq.c
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Expand Up @@ -518,13 +518,13 @@ int init_aio_irq(int irq, char *name, irq_handler_t handler)

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
Expand All @@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ unsigned long to_irq_stack(int sig, unsigned long *mask_out)
* 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);
Expand All @@ -550,6 +550,7 @@ unsigned long to_irq_stack(int sig, unsigned long *mask_out)

task = cpu_tasks[ti->cpu].task;
tti = task_thread_info(task);

*ti = *tti;
ti->real_thread = tti;
task->stack = ti;
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c
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Expand Up @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ void (*handlers[_NSIG])(int sig, struct sigcontext *sc);

void handle_signal(int sig, struct sigcontext *sc)
{
unsigned long pending = 0;
unsigned long pending = 1UL << sig;

do {
int nested, bail;
Expand All @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ void handle_signal(int sig, struct sigcontext *sc)
* 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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