[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 <mingo@elte.hu>]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/kernel/itimer.c b/kernel/itimer.c
index 4fc6c0c..307c6a6 100644 (file)
--- 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 8072e56..e2a7d4b 100644 (file)
--- 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){