threadgroup: extend threadgroup_lock() to cover exit and exec

threadgroup_lock() protected only protected against new addition to
the threadgroup, which was inherently somewhat incomplete and
problematic for its only user cgroup.  On-going migration could race
against exec and exit leading to interesting problems - the symmetry
between various attach methods, task exiting during method execution,
->exit() racing against attach methods, migrating task switching basic
properties during exec and so on.

This patch extends threadgroup_lock() such that it protects against
all three threadgroup altering operations - fork, exit and exec.  For
exit, threadgroup_change_begin/end() calls are added to exit_signals
around assertion of PF_EXITING.  For exec, threadgroup_[un]lock() are
updated to also grab and release cred_guard_mutex.

With this change, threadgroup_lock() guarantees that the target
threadgroup will remain stable - no new task will be added, no new
PF_EXITING will be set and exec won't happen.

The next patch will update cgroup so that it can take full advantage
of this change.

-v2: beefed up comment as suggested by Frederic.

-v3: narrowed scope of protection in exit path as suggested by
     Frederic.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index b3f78d09a10..399c184bf0a 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2359,8 +2359,15 @@ void exit_signals(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	int group_stop = 0;
 	sigset_t unblocked;
 
+	/*
+	 * @tsk is about to have PF_EXITING set - lock out users which
+	 * expect stable threadgroup.
+	 */
+	threadgroup_change_begin(tsk);
+
 	if (thread_group_empty(tsk) || signal_group_exit(tsk->signal)) {
 		tsk->flags |= PF_EXITING;
+		threadgroup_change_end(tsk);
 		return;
 	}
 
@@ -2370,6 +2377,9 @@ void exit_signals(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	 * see wants_signal(), do_signal_stop().
 	 */
 	tsk->flags |= PF_EXITING;
+
+	threadgroup_change_end(tsk);
+
 	if (!signal_pending(tsk))
 		goto out;