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2019-09-16Merge tag 'core-process-v5.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux Pull pidfd/waitid updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains two features and various tests. First, it adds support for waiting on process through pidfds by adding the P_PIDFD type to the waitid() syscall. This completes the basic functionality of the pidfd api (cf. [1]). In the meantime we also have a new adition to the userspace projects that make use of the pidfd api. The qt project was nice enough to send a mail pointing out that they have a pr up to switch to the pidfd api (cf. [2]). Second, this tag contains an extension to the waitid() syscall to make it possible to wait on the current process group in a race free manner (even though the actual problem is very unlikely) by specifing 0 together with the P_PGID type. This extension traces back to a discussion on the glibc development mailing list. There are also a range of tests for the features above. Additionally, the test-suite which detected the pidfd-polling race we fixed in [3] is included in this tag" [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/794707/ [2] https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/108456 [3] commit b191d6491be6 ("pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state") * tag 'core-process-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: waitid: Add support for waiting for the current process group tests: add pidfd poll tests tests: move common definitions and functions into pidfd.h pidfd: add pidfd_wait tests pidfd: add P_PIDFD to waitid()
2019-08-19signal: Allow cifs and drbd to receive their terminating signalsEric W. Biederman
My recent to change to only use force_sig for a synchronous events wound up breaking signal reception cifs and drbd. I had overlooked the fact that by default kthreads start out with all signals set to SIG_IGN. So a change I thought was safe turned out to have made it impossible for those kernel thread to catch their signals. Reverting the work on force_sig is a bad idea because what the code was doing was very much a misuse of force_sig. As the way force_sig ultimately allowed the signal to happen was to change the signal handler to SIG_DFL. Which after the first signal will allow userspace to send signals to these kernel threads. At least for wake_ack_receiver in drbd that does not appear actively wrong. So correct this problem by adding allow_kernel_signal that will allow signals whose siginfo reports they were sent by the kernel through, but will not allow userspace generated signals, and update cifs and drbd to call allow_kernel_signal in an appropriate place so that their thread can receive this signal. Fixing things this way ensures that userspace won't be able to send signals and cause problems, that it is clear which signals the threads are expecting to receive, and it guarantees that nothing else in the system will be affected. This change was partly inspired by similar cifs and drbd patches that added allow_signal. Reported-by: ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> Reported-by: Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com> Tested-by: Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com> Cc: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> Fixes: 247bc9470b1e ("cifs: fix rmmod regression in cifs.ko caused by force_sig changes") Fixes: 72abe3bcf091 ("signal/cifs: Fix cifs_put_tcp_session to call send_sig instead of force_sig") Fixes: fee109901f39 ("signal/drbd: Use send_sig not force_sig") Fixes: 3cf5d076fb4d ("signal: Remove task parameter from force_sig") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2019-08-03kernel/signal.c: fix a kernel-doc markupMauro Carvalho Chehab
The kernel-doc parser doesn't handle expressions with %foo*. Instead, when an asterisk should be part of a constant, it uses an alternative notation: `foo*`. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7f18c2e0b5e39e6b7eb55ddeb043b8b260b49f2d.1563361575.git.mchehab+samsung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Cc: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-08-01pidfd: add P_PIDFD to waitid()Christian Brauner
This adds the P_PIDFD type to waitid(). One of the last remaining bits for the pidfd api is to make it possible to wait on pidfds. With P_PIDFD added to waitid() the parts of userspace that want to use the pidfd api to exclusively manage processes can do so now. One of the things this will unblock in the future is the ability to make it possible to retrieve the exit status via waitid(P_PIDFD) for non-parent processes if handed a _suitable_ pidfd that has this feature set. This is similar to what you can do on FreeBSD with kqueue(). It might even end up being possible to wait on a process as a non-parent if an appropriate property is enabled on the pidfd. With P_PIDFD no scoping of the process identified by the pidfd is possible, i.e. it explicitly blocks things such as wait4(-1), wait4(0), waitid(P_ALL), waitid(P_PGID) etc. It only allows for semantics equivalent to wait4(pid), waitid(P_PID). Users that need scoping should rely on pid-based wait*() syscalls for now. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190727222229.6516-2-christian@brauner.io
2019-07-29pidfd: Add warning if exit_state is 0 during notificationJoel Fernandes (Google)
Previously a condition got missed where the pidfd waiters are awakened before the exit_state gets set. This can result in a missed notification [1] and the polling thread waiting forever. It is fixed now, however it would be nice to avoid this kind of issue going unnoticed in the future. So just add a warning to catch it in the future. /* References */ [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190717172100.261204-1-joel@joelfernandes.org/ Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190724164816.201099-1-joel@joelfernandes.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
2019-07-16signal: simplify set_user_sigmask/restore_user_sigmaskOleg Nesterov
task->saved_sigmask and ->restore_sigmask are only used in the ret-from- syscall paths. This means that set_user_sigmask() can save ->blocked in ->saved_sigmask and do set_restore_sigmask() to indicate that ->blocked was modified. This way the callers do not need 2 sigset_t's passed to set/restore and restore_user_sigmask() renamed to restore_saved_sigmask_unless() turns into the trivial helper which just calls restore_saved_sigmask(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190606113206.GA9464@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-07-10Merge tag 'pidfd-updates-v5.3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux Pull pidfd updates from Christian Brauner: "This adds two main features. - First, it adds polling support for pidfds. This allows process managers to know when a (non-parent) process dies in a race-free way. The notification mechanism used follows the same logic that is currently used when the parent of a task is notified of a child's death. With this patchset it is possible to put pidfds in an {e}poll loop and get reliable notifications for process (i.e. thread-group) exit. - The second feature compliments the first one by making it possible to retrieve pollable pidfds for processes that were not created using CLONE_PIDFD. A lot of processes get created with traditional PID-based calls such as fork() or clone() (without CLONE_PIDFD). For these processes a caller can currently not create a pollable pidfd. This is a problem for Android's low memory killer (LMK) and service managers such as systemd. Both patchsets are accompanied by selftests. It's perhaps worth noting that the work done so far and the work done in this branch for pidfd_open() and polling support do already see some adoption: - Android is in the process of backporting this work to all their LTS kernels [1] - Service managers make use of pidfd_send_signal but will need to wait until we enable waiting on pidfds for full adoption. - And projects I maintain make use of both pidfd_send_signal and CLONE_PIDFD [2] and will use polling support and pidfd_open() too" [1] https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.9+backport%22 https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.14+backport%22 https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.19+backport%22 [2] https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/aab6e3eb73c343231cdde775db938994fc6f2803/src/lxc/start.c#L1753 * tag 'pidfd-updates-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: tests: add pidfd_open() tests arch: wire-up pidfd_open() pid: add pidfd_open() pidfd: add polling selftests pidfd: add polling support
2019-07-08Merge branch 'siginfo-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull force_sig() argument change from Eric Biederman: "A source of error over the years has been that force_sig has taken a task parameter when it is only safe to use force_sig with the current task. The force_sig function is built for delivering synchronous signals such as SIGSEGV where the userspace application caused a synchronous fault (such as a page fault) and the kernel responded with a signal. Because the name force_sig does not make this clear, and because the force_sig takes a task parameter the function force_sig has been abused for sending other kinds of signals over the years. Slowly those have been fixed when the oopses have been tracked down. This set of changes fixes the remaining abusers of force_sig and carefully rips out the task parameter from force_sig and friends making this kind of error almost impossible in the future" * 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (27 commits) signal/x86: Move tsk inside of CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE in do_sigbus signal: Remove the signal number and task parameters from force_sig_info signal: Factor force_sig_info_to_task out of force_sig_info signal: Generate the siginfo in force_sig signal: Move the computation of force into send_signal and correct it. signal: Properly set TRACE_SIGNAL_LOSE_INFO in __send_signal signal: Remove the task parameter from force_sig_fault signal: Use force_sig_fault_to_task for the two calls that don't deliver to current signal: Explicitly call force_sig_fault on current signal/unicore32: Remove tsk parameter from __do_user_fault signal/arm: Remove tsk parameter from __do_user_fault signal/arm: Remove tsk parameter from ptrace_break signal/nds32: Remove tsk parameter from send_sigtrap signal/riscv: Remove tsk parameter from do_trap signal/sh: Remove tsk parameter from force_sig_info_fault signal/um: Remove task parameter from send_sigtrap signal/x86: Remove task parameter from send_sigtrap signal: Remove task parameter from force_sig_mceerr signal: Remove task parameter from force_sig signal: Remove task parameter from force_sigsegv ...
2019-07-08Merge tag 'audit-pr-20190702' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit Pull audit updates from Paul Moore: "This pull request is a bit early, but with some vacation time coming up I wanted to send this out now just in case the remote Internet Gods decide not to smile on me once the merge window opens. The patchset for v5.3 is pretty minor this time, the highlights include: - When the audit daemon is sent a signal, ensure we deliver information about the sender even when syscall auditing is not enabled/supported. - Add the ability to filter audit records based on network address family. - Tighten the audit field filtering restrictions on string based fields. - Cleanup the audit field filtering verification code. - Remove a few BUG() calls from the audit code" * tag 'audit-pr-20190702' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit: audit: remove the BUG() calls in the audit rule comparison functions audit: enforce op for string fields audit: add saddr_fam filter field audit: re-structure audit field valid checks audit: deliver signal_info regarless of syscall
2019-06-29signal: remove the wrong signal_pending() check in restore_user_sigmask()Oleg Nesterov
This is the minimal fix for stable, I'll send cleanups later. Commit 854a6ed56839 ("signal: Add restore_user_sigmask()") introduced the visible change which breaks user-space: a signal temporary unblocked by set_user_sigmask() can be delivered even if the caller returns success or timeout. Change restore_user_sigmask() to accept the additional "interrupted" argument which should be used instead of signal_pending() check, and update the callers. Eric said: : For clarity. I don't think this is required by posix, or fundamentally to : remove the races in select. It is what linux has always done and we have : applications who care so I agree this fix is needed. : : Further in any case where the semantic change that this patch rolls back : (aka where allowing a signal to be delivered and the select like call to : complete) would be advantage we can do as well if not better by using : signalfd. : : Michael is there any chance we can get this guarantee of the linux : implementation of pselect and friends clearly documented. The guarantee : that if the system call completes successfully we are guaranteed that no : signal that is unblocked by using sigmask will be delivered? Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604134117.GA29963@redhat.com Fixes: 854a6ed56839a40f6b5d02a2962f48841482eec4 ("signal: Add restore_user_sigmask()") Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reported-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> Tested-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.0+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-06-28pidfd: add polling supportJoel Fernandes (Google)
This patch adds polling support to pidfd. Android low memory killer (LMK) needs to know when a process dies once it is sent the kill signal. It does so by checking for the existence of /proc/pid which is both racy and slow. For example, if a PID is reused between when LMK sends a kill signal and checks for existence of the PID, since the wrong PID is now possibly checked for existence. Using the polling support, LMK will be able to get notified when a process exists in race-free and fast way, and allows the LMK to do other things (such as by polling on other fds) while awaiting the process being killed to die. For notification to polling processes, we follow the same existing mechanism in the kernel used when the parent of the task group is to be notified of a child's death (do_notify_parent). This is precisely when the tasks waiting on a poll of pidfd are also awakened in this patch. We have decided to include the waitqueue in struct pid for the following reasons: 1. The wait queue has to survive for the lifetime of the poll. Including it in task_struct would not be option in this case because the task can be reaped and destroyed before the poll returns. 2. By including the struct pid for the waitqueue means that during de_thread(), the new thread group leader automatically gets the new waitqueue/pid even though its task_struct is different. Appropriate test cases are added in the second patch to provide coverage of all the cases the patch is handling. Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Kowalski <bl0pbl33p@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: kernel-team@android.com Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Co-developed-by: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
2019-06-05signal: improve commentsChristian Brauner
Improve the comments for pidfd_send_signal(). First, the comment still referred to a file descriptor for a process as a "task file descriptor" which stems from way back at the beginning of the discussion. Replace this with "pidfd" for consistency. Second, the wording for the explanation of the arguments to the syscall was a bit inconsistent, e.g. some used the past tense some used present tense. Make the wording more consistent. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
2019-06-01kernel/signal.c: trace_signal_deliver when signal_group_exitZhenliang Wei
In the fixes commit, removing SIGKILL from each thread signal mask and executing "goto fatal" directly will skip the call to "trace_signal_deliver". At this point, the delivery tracking of the SIGKILL signal will be inaccurate. Therefore, we need to add trace_signal_deliver before "goto fatal" after executing sigdelset. Note: SEND_SIG_NOINFO matches the fact that SIGKILL doesn't have any info. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425025812.91424-1-weizhenliang@huawei.com Fixes: cf43a757fd4944 ("signal: Restore the stop PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT") Signed-off-by: Zhenliang Wei <weizhenliang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Ivan Delalande <colona@arista.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-05-29signal: Remove the signal number and task parameters from force_sig_infoEric W. Biederman
force_sig_info always delivers to the current task and the signal parameter always matches info.si_signo. So remove those parameters to make it a simpler less error prone interface, and to make it clear that none of the callers are doing anything clever. This guarantees that force_sig_info will not grow any new buggy callers that attempt to call force_sig on a non-current task, or that pass an signal number that does not match info.si_signo. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2019-05-29signal: Factor force_sig_info_to_task out of force_sig_infoEric W. Biederman
All callers of force_sig_info pass info.si_signo in for the signal by definition as well as in practice. Further all callers of force_sig_info except force_sig_fault_to_task pass current as the target task to force_sig_info. Factor out a static force_sig_info_to_task that force_sig_fault_to_task can call. This prepares the way for force_sig_info to have it's task and signal parameters removed. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2019-05-29signal: Generate the siginfo in force_sigEric W. Biederman
In preparation for removing the special case in force_sig_info for only having a signal number generate an appropriate siginfo in force_sig the last caller of force_sig_info that does not pass a filled out siginfo. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2019-05-29signal: Move the computation of force into send_signal and correct it.Eric W. Biederman
Forcing a signal or not allowing a pid namespace init to ignore SIGKILL or SIGSTOP is more cleanly computed in send_signal. There are two cases where we don't allow a pid namespace init to ignore SIGKILL or SIGSTOP. If the sending process is from an ancestor pid namespace and as such is effectively the god to the target process, and if the it is the kernel that is sending the signal, not another application. It is known that a process is from an ancestor pid namespace if it can see it's target but it's target does not have a pid for the sender in it's pid namespace. It is know that a signal is sent from the kernel if si_code is set to SI_KERNEL or info is SEND_SIG_PRIV (which ultimately generates a signal with si_code == SI_KERNEL). The only signals that matter are SIGKILL and SIGSTOP neither of which can really be caught, and both of which always have a siginfo layout that includes si_uid and si_pid. Therefore we never need to worry about forcing a signal when si_pid and si_uid are absent. So handle the two special cases of info and the case when si_pid and si_uid are present. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2019-05-29signal: Properly set TRACE_SIGNAL_LOSE_INFO in __send_signalEric W. Biederman
Any time siginfo is not stored in the signal queue information is lost. Therefore set TRACE_SIGNAL_LOSE_INFO every time the code does not allocate a signal queue entry, and a queue overflow abort is not triggered. Fixes: ba005e1f4172 ("tracepoint: Add signal loss events") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2019-05-29signal: Remove the task parameter from force_sig_faultEric W. Biederman
As synchronous exceptions really only make sense against the current task (otherwise how are you synchronous) remove the task parameter from from force_sig_fault to make it explicit that is what is going on. The two known exceptions that deliver a synchronous exception to a stopped ptraced task have already been changed to force_sig_fault_to_task. The callers have been changed with the following emacs regular expression (with obvious variations on the architectures that take more arguments) to avoid typos: force_sig_fault[(]\([^,]+\)[,]\([^,]+\)[,]\([^,]+\)[,]\W+current[)] -> force_sig_fault(\1,\2,\3) Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2019-05-29signal: Use force_sig_fault_to_task for the two calls that don't deliver to ↵Eric W. Biederman
current In preparation for removing the task parameter from force_sig_fault introduce force_sig_fault_to_task and use it for the two cases where it matters. On mips force_fcr31_sig calls force_sig_fault and is called on either the current task, or a task that is suspended and is being switched to by the scheduler. This is safe because the task being switched to by the scheduler is guaranteed to be suspended. This ensures that task->sighand is stable while the signal is delivered to it. On parisc user_enable_single_step calls force_sig_fault and is in turn called by ptrace_request. The function ptrace_request always calls user_enable_single_step on a child that is stopped for tracing. The child being traced and not reaped ensures that child->sighand is not NULL, and that the child will not change child->sighand. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2019-05-27signal: Remove task parameter from force_sig_mceerrEric W. Biederman
All of the callers pass current into force_sig_mceer so remove the task parameter to make this obvious. This also makes it clear that force_sig_mceerr passes current into force_sig_info. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2019-05-27signal: Remove task parameter from force_sigEric W. Biederman
All of the remaining callers pass current into force_sig so remove the task parameter to make this obvious and to make misuse more difficult in the future. This also makes it clear force_sig passes current into force_sig_info. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2019-05-27signal: Remove task parameter from force_sigsegvEric W. Biederman
The function force_sigsegv is always called on the current task so passing in current is redundant and not passing in current makes this fact obvious. This also makes it clear force_sigsegv always calls force_sig on the current task. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2019-05-22signal: Correct namespace fixups of si_pid and si_uidEric W. Biederman
The function send_signal was split from __send_signal so that it would be possible to bypass the namespace logic based upon current[1]. As it turns out the si_pid and the si_uid fixup are both inappropriate in the case of kill_pid_usb_asyncio so move that logic into send_signal. It is difficult to arrange but possible for a signal with an si_code of SI_TIMER or SI_SIGIO to be sent across namespace boundaries. In which case tests for when it is ok to change si_pid and si_uid based on SI_FROMUSER are incorrect. Replace the use of SI_FROMUSER with a new test has_si_pid_and_used based on siginfo_layout. Now that the uid fixup is no longer present after expanding SEND_SIG_NOINFO properly calculate the si_uid that the target task needs to read. [1] 7978b567d315 ("signals: add from_ancestor_ns parameter to send_signal()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 6588c1e3ff01 ("signals: SI_USER: Masquerade si_pid when crossing pid ns boundary") Fixes: 6b550f949594 ("user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2019-05-22signal/usb: Replace kill_pid_info_as_cred with kill_pid_usb_asyncioEric W. Biederman
The usb support for asyncio encoded one of it's values in the wrong field. It should have used si_value but instead used si_addr which is not present in the _rt union member of struct siginfo. The practical result of this is that on a 64bit big endian kernel when delivering a signal to a 32bit process the si_addr field is set to NULL, instead of the expected pointer value. This issue can not be fixed in copy_siginfo_to_user32 as the usb usage of the the _sigfault (aka si_addr) member of the siginfo union when SI_ASYNCIO is set is incompatible with the POSIX and glibc usage of the _rt member of the siginfo union. Therefore replace kill_pid_info_as_cred with kill_pid_usb_asyncio a dedicated function for this one specific case. There are no other users of kill_pid_info_as_cred so this specialization should have no impact on the amount of code in the kernel. Have kill_pid_usb_asyncio take instead of a siginfo_t which is difficult and error prone, 3 arguments, a signal number, an errno value, and an address enconded as a sigval_t. The encoding of the address as a sigval_t allows the code that reads the userspace request for a signal to handle this compat issue along with all of the other compat issues. Add BUILD_BUG_ONs in kernel/signal.c to ensure that we can now place the pointer value at the in si_pid (instead of si_addr). That is the code now verifies that si_pid and si_addr always occur at the same location. Further the code veries that for native structures a value placed in si_pid and spilling into si_uid will appear in userspace in si_addr (on a byte by byte copy of siginfo or a field by field copy of siginfo). The code also verifies that for a 64bit kernel and a 32bit userspace the 32bit pointer will fit in si_pid. I have used the usbsig.c program below written by Alan Stern and slightly tweaked by me to run on a big endian machine to verify the issue exists (on sparc64) and to confirm the patch below fixes the issue. /* usbsig.c -- test USB async signal delivery */ #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <stdio.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <signal.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <endian.h> #include <linux/usb/ch9.h> #include <linux/usbdevice_fs.h> static struct usbdevfs_urb urb; static struct usbdevfs_disconnectsignal ds; static volatile sig_atomic_t done = 0; void urb_handler(int sig, siginfo_t *info , void *ucontext) { printf("Got signal %d, signo %d errno %d code %d addr: %p urb: %p\n", sig, info->si_signo, info->si_errno, info->si_code, info->si_addr, &urb); printf("%s\n", (info->si_addr == &urb) ? "Good" : "Bad"); } void ds_handler(int sig, siginfo_t *info , void *ucontext) { printf("Got signal %d, signo %d errno %d code %d addr: %p ds: %p\n", sig, info->si_signo, info->si_errno, info->si_code, info->si_addr, &ds); printf("%s\n", (info->si_addr == &ds) ? "Good" : "Bad"); done = 1; } int main(int argc, char **argv) { char *devfilename; int fd; int rc; struct sigaction act; struct usb_ctrlrequest *req; void *ptr; char buf[80]; if (argc != 2) { fprintf(stderr, "Usage: usbsig device-file-name\n"); return 1; } devfilename = argv[1]; fd = open(devfilename, O_RDWR); if (fd == -1) { perror("Error opening device file"); return 1; } act.sa_sigaction = urb_handler; sigemptyset(&act.sa_mask); act.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO; rc = sigaction(SIGUSR1, &act, NULL); if (rc == -1) { perror("Error in sigaction"); return 1; } act.sa_sigaction = ds_handler; sigemptyset(&act.sa_mask); act.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO; rc = sigaction(SIGUSR2, &act, NULL); if (rc == -1) { perror("Error in sigaction"); return 1; } memset(&urb, 0, sizeof(urb)); urb.type = USBDEVFS_URB_TYPE_CONTROL; urb.endpoint = USB_DIR_IN | 0; urb.buffer = buf; urb.buffer_length = sizeof(buf); urb.signr = SIGUSR1; req = (struct usb_ctrlrequest *) buf; req->bRequestType = USB_DIR_IN | USB_TYPE_STANDARD | USB_RECIP_DEVICE; req->bRequest = USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR; req->wValue = htole16(USB_DT_DEVICE << 8); req->wIndex = htole16(0); req->wLength = htole16(sizeof(buf) - sizeof(*req)); rc = ioctl(fd, USBDEVFS_SUBMITURB, &urb); if (rc == -1) { perror("Error in SUBMITURB ioctl"); return 1; } rc = ioctl(fd, USBDEVFS_REAPURB, &ptr); if (rc == -1) { perror("Error in REAPURB ioctl"); return 1; } memset(&ds, 0, sizeof(ds)); ds.signr = SIGUSR2; ds.context = &ds; rc = ioctl(fd, USBDEVFS_DISCSIGNAL, &ds); if (rc == -1) { perror("Error in DISCSIGNAL ioctl"); return 1; } printf("Waiting for usb disconnect\n"); while (!done) { sleep(1); } close(fd); return 0; } Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> Fixes: v2.3.39 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2019-05-21audit: deliver signal_info regarless of syscallRichard Guy Briggs
When a process signals the audit daemon (shutdown, rotate, resume, reconfig) but syscall auditing is not enabled, we still want to know the identity of the process sending the signal to the audit daemon. Move audit_signal_info() out of syscall auditing to general auditing but create a new function audit_signal_info_syscall() to take care of the syscall dependent parts for when syscall auditing is enabled. Please see the github kernel audit issue https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/111 Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2019-05-21treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed filesThomas Gleixner
Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which: - Have no license information of any form - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the initial scan/conversion to ignore the file These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX license identifier is: GPL-2.0-only Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-16signal: unconditionally leave the frozen state in ptrace_stop()Roman Gushchin
Alex Xu reported a regression in strace, caused by the introduction of the cgroup v2 freezer. The regression can be reproduced by stracing the following simple program: #include <unistd.h> int main() { write(1, "a", 1); return 0; } An attempt to run strace ./a.out leads to the infinite loop: [ pre-main omitted ] write(1, "a", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if SA_RESTART is set) write(1, "a", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if SA_RESTART is set) write(1, "a", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if SA_RESTART is set) write(1, "a", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if SA_RESTART is set) write(1, "a", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if SA_RESTART is set) write(1, "a", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if SA_RESTART is set) [ repeats forever ] The problem occurs because the traced task leaves ptrace_stop() (and the signal handling loop) with the frozen bit set. So let's call cgroup_leave_frozen(true) unconditionally after sleeping in ptrace_stop(). With this patch applied, strace works as expected: [ pre-main omitted ] write(1, "a", 1) = 1 exit_group(0) = ? +++ exited with 0 +++ Reported-by: Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca> Fixes: 76f969e8948d ("cgroup: cgroup v2 freezer") Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2019-05-14kernel/signal.c: annotate implicit fall throughMathieu Malaterre
There is a plan to build the kernel with -Wimplicit-fallthrough and this place in the code produced a warning (W=1). This commit remove the following warning: kernel/signal.c:795:13: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190114203505.17875-1-malat@debian.org Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-05-09Merge branch 'for-5.2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "This includes Roman's cgroup2 freezer implementation. It's a separate machanism from cgroup1 freezer. Instead of blocking user tasks in arbitrary uninterruptible sleeps, the new implementation extends jobctl stop - frozen tasks are trapped in jobctl stop until thawed and can be killed and ptraced. Lots of thanks to Oleg for sheperding the effort. Other than that, there are a few trivial changes" * 'for-5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: never call do_group_exit() with task->frozen bit set kernel: cgroup: fix misuse of %x cgroup: get rid of cgroup_freezer_frozen_exit() cgroup: prevent spurious transition into non-frozen state cgroup: Remove unused cgrp variable cgroup: document cgroup v2 freezer interface cgroup: add tracing points for cgroup v2 freezer cgroup: make TRACE_CGROUP_PATH irq-safe kselftests: cgroup: add freezer controller self-tests kselftests: cgroup: don't fail on cg_kill_all() error in cg_destroy() cgroup: cgroup v2 freezer cgroup: protect cgroup->nr_(dying_)descendants by css_set_lock cgroup: implement __cgroup_task_count() helper cgroup: rename freezer.c into legacy_freezer.c cgroup: remove extra cgroup_migrate_finish() call
2019-05-09cgroup: never call do_group_exit() with task->frozen bit setRoman Gushchin
I've got two independent reports that cgroup_task_frozen() check in cgroup_exit() has been triggered by lkp libhugetlbfs-test and LTP ptrace01 tests. For example: [ 44.576072] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3028 at kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:5932 cgroup_exit+0x148/0x160 [ 44.577724] Modules linked in: crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel sr_mod cdrom bochs_drm sg ttm ata_generic pata_acpi ppdev drm_kms_helper snd_pcm syscopyarea aesni_intel snd_timer sysfillrect sysimgblt snd crypto_simd cryptd glue_helper soundcore fb_sys_fops joydev drm serio_raw pcspkr ata_piix libata i2c_piix4 floppy parport_pc parport ip_tables [ 44.583106] CPU: 1 PID: 3028 Comm: ptrace-write-hu Not tainted 5.1.0-rc3-00053-g9262503 #5 [ 44.584600] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014 [ 44.586116] RIP: 0010:cgroup_exit+0x148/0x160 [ 44.587135] Code: 0f 84 50 ff ff ff 48 8b 85 c8 0c 00 00 48 8b 78 70 e8 ec 2e 00 00 e9 3b ff ff ff f0 ff 43 60 0f 88 72 21 89 00 e9 48 ff ff ff <0f> 0b e9 1b ff ff ff e8 3c 73 f4 ff 66 90 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 [ 44.590113] RSP: 0018:ffffb25702dcfd30 EFLAGS: 00010002 [ 44.591167] RAX: ffff96a7fee32410 RBX: ffff96a7ff1d6000 RCX: dead000000000200 [ 44.592446] RDX: ffff96a7ff1d6080 RSI: ffff96a7fec75290 RDI: ffff96a7fec75290 [ 44.593715] RBP: ffff96a7fec745c0 R08: ffff96a7fec74658 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 44.594985] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff96a7fec75101 [ 44.596266] R13: ffff96a7fec745c0 R14: ffff96a7ff3bde30 R15: ffff96a7fec75130 [ 44.597550] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff96a7dd700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 44.598950] CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 44.600098] CR2: 00000000f7a00000 CR3: 000000000d20e000 CR4: 00000000000406e0 [ 44.601417] Call Trace: [ 44.602777] do_exit+0x337/0xc40 [ 44.603677] do_group_exit+0x3a/0xa0 [ 44.604610] get_signal+0x12e/0x8d0 [ 44.605533] ? __switch_to_asm+0x40/0x70 [ 44.606503] do_signal+0x36/0x650 [ 44.607409] ? __switch_to_asm+0x40/0x70 [ 44.608383] ? __schedule+0x267/0x860 [ 44.609329] exit_to_usermode_loop+0x89/0xf0 [ 44.610349] do_fast_syscall_32+0x251/0x2e3 [ 44.611357] entry_SYSENTER_compat+0x7f/0x91 [ 44.612376] ---[ end trace e4ca5cfc4b7f7964 ]--- The problem is caused by the ptrace_signal() call in the for loop in get_signal(). There is a cgroup_enter_frozen() call inside ptrace_signal(), so after exit from ptrace_signal() the task->frozen bit might be set. In this case do_group_exit() can be called with the task->frozen bit set and trigger the warning. This is only place where we can leave the loop with the task->frozen bit set and without setting JOBCTL_TRAP_FREEZE and TIF_SIGPENDING. To resolve this problem, let's move cgroup_leave_frozen(true) call to just after the fatal label. If the task is going to die, the frozen bit must be cleared no matter how we get into this point. Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com> Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2019-05-07Merge tag 'pidfd-v5.2-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux Pull pidfd updates from Christian Brauner: "This patchset makes it possible to retrieve pidfds at process creation time by introducing the new flag CLONE_PIDFD to the clone() system call. Linus originally suggested to implement this as a new flag to clone() instead of making it a separate system call. After a thorough review from Oleg CLONE_PIDFD returns pidfds in the parent_tidptr argument. This means we can give back the associated pid and the pidfd at the same time. Access to process metadata information thus becomes rather trivial. As has been agreed, CLONE_PIDFD creates file descriptors based on anonymous inodes similar to the new mount api. They are made unconditional by this patchset as they are now needed by core kernel code (vfs, pidfd) even more than they already were before (timerfd, signalfd, io_uring, epoll etc.). The core patchset is rather small. The bulky looking changelist is caused by David's very simple changes to Kconfig to make anon inodes unconditional. A pidfd comes with additional information in fdinfo if the kernel supports procfs. The fdinfo file contains the pid of the process in the callers pid namespace in the same format as the procfs status file, i.e. "Pid:\t%d". To remove worries about missing metadata access this patchset comes with a sample/test program that illustrates how a combination of CLONE_PIDFD and pidfd_send_signal() can be used to gain race-free access to process metadata through /proc/<pid>. Further work based on this patchset has been done by Joel. His work makes pidfds pollable. It finished too late for this merge window. I would prefer to have it sitting in linux-next for a while and send it for inclusion during the 5.3 merge window" * tag 'pidfd-v5.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: samples: show race-free pidfd metadata access signal: support CLONE_PIDFD with pidfd_send_signal clone: add CLONE_PIDFD Make anon_inodes unconditional
2019-05-07signal: support CLONE_PIDFD with pidfd_send_signalChristian Brauner
Let pidfd_send_signal() use pidfds retrieved via CLONE_PIDFD. With this patch pidfd_send_signal() becomes independent of procfs. This fullfils the request made when we merged the pidfd_send_signal() patchset. The pidfd_send_signal() syscall is now always available allowing for it to be used by users without procfs mounted or even users without procfs support compiled into the kernel. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io> Co-developed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-05-06cgroup: prevent spurious transition into non-frozen stateRoman Gushchin
If freezing of a cgroup races with waking of a task from the frozen state (like waiting in vfork() or in do_signal_stop()), a spurious transition of the cgroup state can happen. The task enters cgroup_leave_frozen(true), the cgroup->nr_frozen_tasks counter decrements, and the cgroup is switched to the unfrozen state. To prevent it, let's reserve cgroup_leave_frozen(true) for terminating processes and use cgroup_leave_frozen(false) otherwise. To avoid busy-looping in the signal handling loop waiting for JOBCTL_TRAP_FREEZE set from the cgroup freezing path, let's do it explicitly in cgroup_leave_frozen(), if the task is going to stay frozen. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2019-04-19cgroup: cgroup v2 freezerRoman Gushchin
Cgroup v1 implements the freezer controller, which provides an ability to stop the workload in a cgroup and temporarily free up some resources (cpu, io, network bandwidth and, potentially, memory) for some other tasks. Cgroup v2 lacks this functionality. This patch implements freezer for cgroup v2. Cgroup v2 freezer tries to put tasks into a state similar to jobctl stop. This means that tasks can be killed, ptraced (using PTRACE_SEIZE*), and interrupted. It is possible to attach to a frozen task, get some information (e.g. read registers) and detach. It's also possible to migrate a frozen tasks to another cgroup. This differs cgroup v2 freezer from cgroup v1 freezer, which mostly tried to imitate the system-wide freezer. However uninterruptible sleep is fine when all tasks are going to be frozen (hibernation case), it's not the acceptable state for some subset of the system. Cgroup v2 freezer is not supporting freezing kthreads. If a non-root cgroup contains kthread, the cgroup still can be frozen, but the kthread will remain running, the cgroup will be shown as non-frozen, and the notification will not be delivered. * PTRACE_ATTACH is not working because non-fatal signal delivery is blocked in frozen state. There are some interface differences between cgroup v1 and cgroup v2 freezer too, which are required to conform the cgroup v2 interface design principles: 1) There is no separate controller, which has to be turned on: the functionality is always available and is represented by cgroup.freeze and cgroup.events cgroup control files. 2) The desired state is defined by the cgroup.freeze control file. Any hierarchical configuration is allowed. 3) The interface is asynchronous. The actual state is available using cgroup.events control file ("frozen" field). There are no dedicated transitional states. 4) It's allowed to make any changes with the cgroup hierarchy (create new cgroups, remove old cgroups, move tasks between cgroups) no matter if some cgroups are frozen. Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> No-objection-from-me-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
2019-04-18signal: use fdget() since we don't allow O_PATHChristian Brauner
As stated in the original commit for pidfd_send_signal() we don't allow to signal processes through O_PATH file descriptors since it is semantically equivalent to a write on the pidfd. We already correctly error out right now and return EBADF if an O_PATH fd is passed. This is because we use file->f_op to detect whether a pidfd is passed and O_PATH fds have their file->f_op set to empty_fops in do_dentry_open() and thus fail the test. Thus, there is no regression. It's just semantically correct to use fdget() and return an error right from there instead of taking a reference and returning an error later. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-04-01signal: don't silently convert SI_USER signals to non-current pidfdJann Horn
The current sys_pidfd_send_signal() silently turns signals with explicit SI_USER context that are sent to non-current tasks into signals with kernel-generated siginfo. This is unlike do_rt_sigqueueinfo(), which returns -EPERM in this case. If a user actually wants to send a signal with kernel-provided siginfo, they can do that with pidfd_send_signal(pidfd, sig, NULL, 0); so allowing this case is unnecessary. Instead of silently replacing the siginfo, just bail out with an error; this is consistent with other interfaces and avoids special-casing behavior based on security checks. Fixes: 3eb39f47934f ("signal: add pidfd_send_signal() syscall") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
2019-03-16Merge tag 'pidfd-v5.1-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux Pull pidfd system call from Christian Brauner: "This introduces the ability to use file descriptors from /proc/<pid>/ as stable handles on struct pid. Even if a pid is recycled the handle will not change. For a start these fds can be used to send signals to the processes they refer to. With the ability to use /proc/<pid> fds as stable handles on struct pid we can fix a long-standing issue where after a process has exited its pid can be reused by another process. If a caller sends a signal to a reused pid it will end up signaling the wrong process. With this patchset we enable a variety of use cases. One obvious example is that we can now safely delegate an important part of process management - sending signals - to processes other than the parent of a given process by sending file descriptors around via scm rights and not fearing that the given process will have been recycled in the meantime. It also allows for easy testing whether