From: Oleg Nesterov The global init has a lot of long standing problems with the unhandled fatal signals. - The "is_global_init(current)" check in get_signal_to_deliver() protects only the main thread. Sub-thread can dequee the fatal signal and shutdown the whole thread group except the main thread. If it dequeues SIGSTOP /sbin/init will be stopped, this is not right too. Note that we can't use is_global_init(->group_leader), this breaks exec and this can't solve other problems we have. - Even if afterwards ignored, the fatal signals sets SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT on delivery. This breaks exec, has other bad implications, and this is just wrong. Introduce the new SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE flag to fix these problems. It also helps to solve some other problems addressed by the subsequent patches. Currently we use this flag for the global init only, but it could also be used by kthreads and (perhaps) by the sub-namespace inits. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/sched.h | 2 ++ init/main.c | 2 ++ kernel/signal.c | 9 ++++++--- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/sched.h~signals-fix-sbin-init-protection-from-unwanted-signals include/linux/sched.h --- a/include/linux/sched.h~signals-fix-sbin-init-protection-from-unwanted-signals +++ a/include/linux/sched.h @@ -562,6 +562,8 @@ struct signal_struct { #define SIGNAL_CLD_CONTINUED 0x00000020 #define SIGNAL_CLD_MASK (SIGNAL_CLD_STOPPED|SIGNAL_CLD_CONTINUED) +#define SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE 0x00000040 /* for init: ignore fatal signals */ + /* If true, all threads except ->group_exit_task have pending SIGKILL */ static inline int signal_group_exit(const struct signal_struct *sig) { diff -puN init/main.c~signals-fix-sbin-init-protection-from-unwanted-signals init/main.c --- a/init/main.c~signals-fix-sbin-init-protection-from-unwanted-signals +++ a/init/main.c @@ -781,6 +781,8 @@ static int noinline init_post(void) (void) sys_dup(0); (void) sys_dup(0); + current->signal->flags |= SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE; + if (ramdisk_execute_command) { run_init_process(ramdisk_execute_command); printk(KERN_WARNING "Failed to execute %s\n", diff -puN kernel/signal.c~signals-fix-sbin-init-protection-from-unwanted-signals kernel/signal.c --- a/kernel/signal.c~signals-fix-sbin-init-protection-from-unwanted-signals +++ a/kernel/signal.c @@ -728,7 +728,8 @@ static void complete_signal(int sig, str * Found a killable thread. If the signal will be fatal, * then start taking the whole group down immediately. */ - if (sig_fatal(p, sig) && !(signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT) && + if (sig_fatal(p, sig) && + !(signal->flags & (SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE | SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT)) && !sigismember(&t->real_blocked, sig) && (sig == SIGKILL || !(t->ptrace & PT_PTRACED))) { /* @@ -1615,7 +1616,8 @@ static int do_signal_stop(int signr) } else { struct task_struct *t; - if (!likely(sig->flags & SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED) || + if (unlikely((sig->flags & (SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED | SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE)) + != SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED) || unlikely(signal_group_exit(sig))) return 0; /* @@ -1748,7 +1750,8 @@ relock: /* * Global init gets no signals it doesn't want. */ - if (is_global_init(current)) + if (unlikely(signal->flags & SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE) && + !signal_group_exit(signal)) continue; if (sig_kernel_stop(signr)) { _