signals: jffs2: fix the wrong usage of disallow_signal()

jffs2_garbage_collect_thread() does disallow_signal(SIGHUP) around
jffs2_garbage_collect_pass() and the comment says "We don't want SIGHUP
to interrupt us".

But disallow_signal() can't ensure that jffs2_garbage_collect_pass()
won't be interrupted by SIGHUP, the problem is that SIGHUP can be
already pending when disallow_signal() is called, and in this case any
interruptible sleep won't block.

Note: this is in fact because disallow_signal() is buggy and should be
fixed, see the next changes.

But there is another reason why disallow_signal() is wrong: SIG_IGN set
by disallow_signal() silently discards any SIGHUP which can be sent
before the next allow_signal(SIGHUP).

Change this code to use sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK/SIG_BLOCK, SIGHUP).
This even matches the old (and wrong) semantics allow/disallow had when
this logic was written.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/background.c b/fs/jffs2/background.c
index 2b60ce1996aa..bb9cebc9ca8a 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/background.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/background.c
@@ -75,10 +75,13 @@ void jffs2_stop_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
 static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
 {
 	struct jffs2_sb_info *c = _c;
+	sigset_t hupmask;
 
+	siginitset(&hupmask, sigmask(SIGHUP));
 	allow_signal(SIGKILL);
 	allow_signal(SIGSTOP);
 	allow_signal(SIGCONT);
+	allow_signal(SIGHUP);
 
 	c->gc_task = current;
 	complete(&c->gc_thread_start);
@@ -87,7 +90,7 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
 
 	set_freezable();
 	for (;;) {
-		allow_signal(SIGHUP);
+		sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &hupmask, NULL);
 	again:
 		spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
 		if (!jffs2_thread_should_wake(c)) {
@@ -95,10 +98,9 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
 			spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
 			jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): sleeping...\n", __func__);
 			schedule();
-		} else
+		} else {
 			spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
-			
-
+		}
 		/* Problem - immediately after bootup, the GCD spends a lot
 		 * of time in places like jffs2_kill_fragtree(); so much so
 		 * that userspace processes (like gdm and X) are starved
@@ -150,7 +152,7 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
 			}
 		}
 		/* We don't want SIGHUP to interrupt us. STOP and KILL are OK though. */
-		disallow_signal(SIGHUP);
+		sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &hupmask, NULL);
 
 		jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): pass\n", __func__);
 		if (jffs2_garbage_collect_pass(c) == -ENOSPC) {