signals: make task_struct->signal immutable/refcountable

We have a lot of problems with accessing task_struct->signal, it can
"disappear" at any moment.  Even current can't use its ->signal safely
after exit_notify().  ->siglock helps, but it is not convenient, not
always possible, and sometimes it makes sense to use task->signal even
after this task has already dead.

This patch adds the reference counter, sigcnt, into signal_struct.  This
reference is owned by task_struct and it is dropped in
__put_task_struct().  Perhaps it makes sense to export
get/put_signal_struct() later, but currently I don't see the immediate
reason.

Rename __cleanup_signal() to free_signal_struct() and unexport it.  With
the previous changes it does nothing except kmem_cache_free().

Change __exit_signal() to not clear/free ->signal, it will be freed when
the last reference to any thread in the thread group goes away.

Note:
	- when the last thead exits signal->tty can point to nowhere, see
	  the next patch.

	- with or without this patch signal_struct->count should go away,
	  or at least it should be "int nr_threads" for fs/proc. This will
	  be addressed later.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 4a72f1753ed..92af5cde9bb 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -134,8 +134,6 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	 * doing sigqueue_free() if we have SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC signals.
 	 */
 	flush_sigqueue(&tsk->pending);
-
-	tsk->signal = NULL;
 	tsk->sighand = NULL;
 	spin_unlock(&sighand->siglock);
 
@@ -150,7 +148,6 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
 		 */
 		task_rq_unlock_wait(tsk);
 		tty_kref_put(sig->tty);
-		__cleanup_signal(sig);
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index b7879ef6e7c..e08e3012cd6 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -165,6 +165,18 @@ void free_task(struct task_struct *tsk)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_task);
 
+static inline void free_signal_struct(struct signal_struct *sig)
+{
+	thread_group_cputime_free(sig);
+	kmem_cache_free(signal_cachep, sig);
+}
+
+static inline void put_signal_struct(struct signal_struct *sig)
+{
+	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&sig->sigcnt))
+		free_signal_struct(sig);
+}
+
 void __put_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	WARN_ON(!tsk->exit_state);
@@ -173,6 +185,7 @@ void __put_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk)
 
 	exit_creds(tsk);
 	delayacct_tsk_free(tsk);
+	put_signal_struct(tsk->signal);
 
 	if (!profile_handoff_task(tsk))
 		free_task(tsk);
@@ -864,6 +877,7 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	if (!sig)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	atomic_set(&sig->sigcnt, 1);
 	atomic_set(&sig->count, 1);
 	atomic_set(&sig->live, 1);
 	init_waitqueue_head(&sig->wait_chldexit);
@@ -889,12 +903,6 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-void __cleanup_signal(struct signal_struct *sig)
-{
-	thread_group_cputime_free(sig);
-	kmem_cache_free(signal_cachep, sig);
-}
-
 static void copy_flags(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
 {
 	unsigned long new_flags = p->flags;
@@ -1248,6 +1256,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 	}
 
 	if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) {
+		atomic_inc(&current->signal->sigcnt);
 		atomic_inc(&current->signal->count);
 		atomic_inc(&current->signal->live);
 		p->group_leader = current->group_leader;
@@ -1294,7 +1303,7 @@ bad_fork_cleanup_mm:
 		mmput(p->mm);
 bad_fork_cleanup_signal:
 	if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD))
-		__cleanup_signal(p->signal);
+		free_signal_struct(p->signal);
 bad_fork_cleanup_sighand:
 	__cleanup_sighand(p->sighand);
 bad_fork_cleanup_fs: