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[PATCH 4.4 43/50] userfaultfd: dont block on the last VM updates at exit time

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4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

commit 39680f50ae54cbbb6e72ac38b8329dd3eb9105f4 upstream.

The exit path will do some final updates to the VM of an exiting process
to inform others of the fact that the process is going away.

That happens, for example, for robust futex state cleanup, but also if
the parent has asked for a TID update when the process exits (we clear
the child tid field in user space).

However, at the time we do those final VM accesses, we've already
stopped accepting signals, so the usual "stop waiting for userfaults on
signal" code in fs/userfaultfd.c no longer works, and the process can
become an unkillable zombie waiting for something that will never
happen.

To solve this, just make handle_userfault() abort any user fault
handling if we're already in the exit path past the signal handling
state being dead (marked by PF_EXITING).

This VM special case is pretty ugly, and it is possible that we should
look at finalizing signals later (or move the VM final accesses
earlier).  But in the meantime this is a fairly minimally intrusive fix.

Reported-and-tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/userfaultfd.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -287,6 +287,12 @@ int handle_userfault(struct vm_area_stru
 		goto out;
 
 	/*
+	 * We don't do userfault handling for the final child pid update.
+	 */
+	if (current->flags & PF_EXITING)
+		goto out;
+
+	/*
 	 * Check that we can return VM_FAULT_RETRY.
 	 *
 	 * NOTE: it should become possible to return VM_FAULT_RETRY

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[PATCH 4.4 00/50] 4.4.6-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:10 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 11/50] KVM: MMU: fix reserved bit check for ept=0/CR0.WP=0/CR4.SMEP=1/EFER.NX=0 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:10 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 47/50] MIPS: smp.c: Fix uninitialised temp_foreign_map Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:10 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 10/50] KVM: MMU: fix ept=0/pte.u=1/pte.w=0/CR0.WP=0/CR4.SMEP=1/EFER.NX=0 combo Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:10 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 14/50] tracing: Fix check for cpu online when event is disabled Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:10 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 39/50] Revert "drm/radeon/pm: adjust display configuration after powerstate" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 30/50] mac80211: minstrel_ht: set default tx aggregation timeout to 0 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 21/50] ASoC: wm8958: Fix enum ctl accesses in a wrong type Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 27/50] iwlwifi: mvm: inc pending frames counter also when txing non-sta Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 43/50] userfaultfd: dont block on the last VM updates at exit time Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 32/50] mac80211: check PN correctly for GCMP-encrypted fragmented MPDUs Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 26/50] can: gs_usb: fixed disconnect bug by removing erroneous use of kfree() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 40/50] powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 28/50] mac80211: minstrel: Change expected throughput unit back to Kbps Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 33/50] mac80211: Fix Public Action frame RX in AP mode Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 41/50] powerpc/powernv: Add a kmsg_dumper that flushes console output on panic Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 29/50] mac80211: fix use of uninitialised values in RX aggregation Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 22/50] ovl: ignore lower entries when checking purity of non-directory entries Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 04/50] ARM: OMAP2+: hwmod: Introduce ti,no-idle dt property Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 45/50] ovl: fix getcwd() failure after unsuccessful rmdir Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 23/50] ovl: fix working on distributed fs as lower layer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 03/50] ARM: dts: dra7: do not gate cpsw clock due to errata i877 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 02/50] ARM: mvebu: fix overlap of Crypto SRAM with PCIe memory window Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 24/50] wext: fix message delay/ordering Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 06/50] kvm: cap halt polling at exactly halt_poll_ns Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 44/50] ovl: copy new uid/gid into overlayfs runtime inode Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 35/50] x86/mm: Fix slow_virt_to_phys() for X86_PAE again Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 42/50] powerpc/powernv: Fix OPAL_CONSOLE_FLUSH prototype and usages Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 34/50] gpu: ipu-v3: Do not bail out on missing optional port nodes Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 15/50] dmaengine: at_xdmac: fix residue computation Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 25/50] cfg80211/wext: fix message ordering Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 20/50] ASoC: wm8994: Fix enum ctl accesses in a wrong type Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 4.4 19/50] ASoC: samsung: Use IRQ safe spin lock calls Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:30 +0100
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    Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/50] 4.4.6-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-16 16:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/50] 4.4.6-stable review Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-03-15 03:40 +0100
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