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[RFC][PATCH v2 3/5] clone: Disallown CLONE_THREAD with a shared sighand_struct

From ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [RFC][PATCH v2 3/5] clone: Disallown CLONE_THREAD with a shared sighand_struct
Date 2017-04-03 01:00 +0200
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Old threading libraries used CLONE_SIGHAND without clone thread.
Modern threadding libraries always use CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_THREAD.

Therefore let's simplify our lives and stop supporting a case no one cares about.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
 kernel/fork.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index fe6f1bf32bb9..0632ac1180be 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1515,6 +1515,13 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 	if ((clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) && !(clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
+	/* Disallow CLONE_THREAD with a shared SIGHAND structure.  No
+	 * one cares and supporting it leads to unnecessarily complex
+	 * code.
+	 */
+	if ((clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) && (atomic_read(&current->sighand->count) > 1))
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
 	/*
 	 * Shared signal handlers imply shared VM. By way of the above,
 	 * thread groups also imply shared VM. Blocking this case allows
-- 
2.10.1

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Re: [RFC][PATCH] exec: Don't wait for ptraced threads to be reaped. ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-03-30 10:20 +0200
  [RFC][PATCH 0/2] exec: Fixing ptrace'd mulit-threaded hang ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-01 07:20 +0200
    [RFC][PATCH 1/2] sighand: Count each thread group once in sighand_struct ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-01 07:20 +0200
    [RFC][PATCH 2/2] exec: If possible don't wait for ptraced threads to be reaped ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-01 07:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] exec: If possible don't wait for ptraced  threads to be reaped Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-04-02 17:40 +0200
        Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] exec: If possible don't wait for ptraced threads to be reaped ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-02 21:00 +0200
          Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] exec: If possible don't wait for ptraced  threads to be reaped Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-04-03 20:20 +0200
            Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] exec: If possible don't wait for ptraced threads to be reaped ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-03 23:20 +0200
              Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] exec: If possible don't wait for ptraced         threads to be reaped Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-04-05 18:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] exec: Fixing ptrace'd mulit-threaded hang Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-04-02 17:40 +0200
    [RFC][PATCH v2 4/5] exec: If possible don't wait for ptraced threads to be reaped ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-03 01:00 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 4/5] exec: If possible don't wait for ptraced         threads to be reaped Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-04-05 18:20 +0200
    [RFC][PATCH v2 1/5] ptrace: Don't wait in PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT for exec or coredump ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-03 01:00 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 1/5] ptrace: Don't wait in PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT         for exec or coredump Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-04-05 18:30 +0200
    [RFC][PATCH v2 0/5] exec: Fixing ptrace'd mulit-threaded hang ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-03 01:00 +0200
      [RFC][PATCH v2 3/5] clone: Disallown CLONE_THREAD with a shared sighand_struct ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-03 01:00 +0200
        Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 3/5] clone: Disallown CLONE_THREAD with a         shared sighand_struct Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-04-05 18:30 +0200
          Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 3/5] clone: Disallown CLONE_THREAD with a shared sighand_struct ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-05 19:50 +0200
            Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 3/5] clone: Disallown CLONE_THREAD with a         shared sighand_struct Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-04-05 20:20 +0200
      [RFC][PATCH v2 2/5] sighand: Count each thread group once in sighand_struct ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-03 01:00 +0200
      [RFC][PATCH v2 5/5] signal: Don't allow accessing signal_struct by old threads after exec ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-03 01:10 +0200
        Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 5/5] signal: Don't allow accessing         signal_struct by old threads after exec Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-04-05 18:20 +0200
          Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 5/5] signal: Don't allow accessing signal_struct by old threads after exec ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-05 20:30 +0200
            Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 5/5] signal: Don't allow accessing signal_struct  by old threads after exec Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-04-06 18:00 +0200
  Re: [RFC][PATCH] exec: Don't wait for ptraced threads to be reaped. Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-04-02 18:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH] exec: Don't wait for ptraced threads to be reaped. ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-02 23:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH] exec: Don't wait for ptraced threads to be reaped. Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-04-03 20:40 +0200
        scope of cred_guard_mutex. ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-04 01:00 +0200
          Re: scope of cred_guard_mutex. Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-04-05 18:10 +0200
            Re: scope of cred_guard_mutex. Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-05 18:20 +0200
            Re: scope of cred_guard_mutex. ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-05 20:10 +0200
              Re: scope of cred_guard_mutex. Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-04-05 20:20 +0200
          Re: scope of cred_guard_mutex. Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-04-06 18:00 +0200
            Re: scope of cred_guard_mutex. Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-08 00:10 +0200
        Re: [RFC][PATCH] exec: Don't wait for ptraced threads to be reaped. ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-04 01:00 +0200

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