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    signal: Always notice exiting tasks · 35634ffa
    Eric W. Biederman authored
    Recently syzkaller was able to create unkillablle processes by
    creating a timer that is delivered as a thread local signal on SIGHUP,
    and receiving SIGHUP SA_NODEFERER.  Ultimately causing a loop
    failing to deliver SIGHUP but always trying.
    
    Upon examination it turns out part of the problem is actually most of
    the solution.  Since 2.5 signal delivery has found all fatal signals,
    marked the signal group for death, and queued SIGKILL in every threads
    thread queue relying on signal->group_exit_code to preserve the
    information of which was the actual fatal signal.
    
    The conversion of all fatal signals to SIGKILL results in the
    synchronous signal heuristic in next_signal kicking in and preferring
    SIGHUP to SIGKILL.  Which is especially problematic as all
    fatal signals have already been transformed into SIGKILL.
    
    Instead of dequeueing signals and depending upon SIGKILL to
    be the first signal dequeued, first test if the signal group
    has already been marked for death.  This guarantees that
    nothing in the signal queue can prevent a process that needs
    to exit from exiting.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Tested-by: default avatarDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
    Ref: ebf5ebe3 ("[PATCH] signal-fixes-2.5.59-A4")
    History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.gitSigned-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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