Re: [PATCH 1/1] tty: disassociate_ctty() sends the extra SIGCONT

[Peter Hurley]

On 09/21/2013 02:34 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Peter, sorry for delay, I was sick.
>
> On 09/17, Peter Hurley wrote:
> > On 09/15/2013 11:50 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > > Put the "!on_exit" check back to restore the old behaviour.
> > >
> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.10+
> > > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reported-by: Karel Srot <ksrot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Can I ask the question? tty_signal_session_leader() is probably fine,
> but it _looks_ buggy or at least confusing to me.
>
> 		do_each_pid_task(tty->session, PIDTYPE_SID, p) {
> 			spin_lock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock);
> 			if (p->signal->tty == tty) {
> 				p->signal->tty = NULL;
> 				/* We defer the dereferences outside fo
> 				   the tasklist lock */
> 				refs++;
> 			}
> 			if (!p->signal->leader) {
> 				spin_unlock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock);
> 				continue;
> 			}
> 			__group_send_sig_info(SIGHUP, SEND_SIG_PRIV, p);
> 			__group_send_sig_info(SIGCONT, SEND_SIG_PRIV, p);
> 			put_pid(p->signal->tty_old_pgrp);  /* A noop */
> 			spin_lock(&tty->ctrl_lock);
> 			tty_pgrp = get_pid(tty->pgrp);
>
> I guess this can happen only once, so we could even add WARN_ON(tty_pgrp)
> before get_pid(). But this look confusing, as if we can do get_pid()
> multiple times and leak tty->pgrp.
>
> 			if (tty->pgrp)
> 				p->signal->tty_old_pgrp = get_pid(tty->pgrp);
>
> else? We already did put_pid(tty_old_pgrp), we should clear it.
>
> IOW, do you think the patch below makes sense or I missed something?
> Just curious.

The code block you're referring to only executes once because there is
only one session leader.

Regards,
Peter Hurley

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