From 8bfd9a7a229b5f3d3eda5d7d45c2eebec5b4ba16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:28:12 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] hrtimers: prevent possible itimer DoS Fix potential setitimer DoS with high-res timers by pushing itimer rearm processing to process context. [Fixes from: Ingo Molnar ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: john stultz Cc: Roman Zippel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/itimer.c | 14 +++++------- kernel/signal.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/itimer.c b/kernel/itimer.c index 4fc6c0caf5d4..307c6a632ef6 100644 --- a/kernel/itimer.c +++ b/kernel/itimer.c @@ -135,11 +135,6 @@ enum hrtimer_restart it_real_fn(struct hrtimer *timer) send_group_sig_info(SIGALRM, SEND_SIG_PRIV, sig->tsk); - if (sig->it_real_incr.tv64 != 0) { - hrtimer_forward(timer, hrtimer_cb_get_time(timer), - sig->it_real_incr); - return HRTIMER_RESTART; - } return HRTIMER_NORESTART; } @@ -231,11 +226,14 @@ again: spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); goto again; } - tsk->signal->it_real_incr = - timeval_to_ktime(value->it_interval); expires = timeval_to_ktime(value->it_value); - if (expires.tv64 != 0) + if (expires.tv64 != 0) { + tsk->signal->it_real_incr = + timeval_to_ktime(value->it_interval); hrtimer_start(timer, expires, HRTIMER_MODE_REL); + } else + tsk->signal->it_real_incr.tv64 = 0; + spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); break; case ITIMER_VIRTUAL: diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 8072e568bbe0..e2a7d4bf7d57 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -456,26 +456,50 @@ static int __dequeue_signal(struct sigpending *pending, sigset_t *mask, int dequeue_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, sigset_t *mask, siginfo_t *info) { int signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->pending, mask, info); - if (!signr) + if (!signr) { signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->signal->shared_pending, mask, info); + /* + * itimer signal ? + * + * itimers are process shared and we restart periodic + * itimers in the signal delivery path to prevent DoS + * attacks in the high resolution timer case. This is + * compliant with the old way of self restarting + * itimers, as the SIGALRM is a legacy signal and only + * queued once. Changing the restart behaviour to + * restart the timer in the signal dequeue path is + * reducing the timer noise on heavy loaded !highres + * systems too. + */ + if (unlikely(signr == SIGALRM)) { + struct hrtimer *tmr = &tsk->signal->real_timer; + + if (!hrtimer_is_queued(tmr) && + tsk->signal->it_real_incr.tv64 != 0) { + hrtimer_forward(tmr, tmr->base->get_time(), + tsk->signal->it_real_incr); + hrtimer_restart(tmr); + } + } + } recalc_sigpending_tsk(tsk); - if (signr && unlikely(sig_kernel_stop(signr))) { - /* - * Set a marker that we have dequeued a stop signal. Our - * caller might release the siglock and then the pending - * stop signal it is about to process is no longer in the - * pending bitmasks, but must still be cleared by a SIGCONT - * (and overruled by a SIGKILL). So those cases clear this - * shared flag after we've set it. Note that this flag may - * remain set after the signal we return is ignored or - * handled. That doesn't matter because its only purpose - * is to alert stop-signal processing code when another - * processor has come along and cleared the flag. - */ - if (!(tsk->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT)) - tsk->signal->flags |= SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED; - } + if (signr && unlikely(sig_kernel_stop(signr))) { + /* + * Set a marker that we have dequeued a stop signal. Our + * caller might release the siglock and then the pending + * stop signal it is about to process is no longer in the + * pending bitmasks, but must still be cleared by a SIGCONT + * (and overruled by a SIGKILL). So those cases clear this + * shared flag after we've set it. Note that this flag may + * remain set after the signal we return is ignored or + * handled. That doesn't matter because its only purpose + * is to alert stop-signal processing code when another + * processor has come along and cleared the flag. + */ + if (!(tsk->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT)) + tsk->signal->flags |= SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED; + } if ( signr && ((info->si_code & __SI_MASK) == __SI_TIMER) && info->si_sys_private){ -- 2.20.1