commit dfe16dfa4ac178d9a10b489a73d535c6976e48d2
author Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com> Wed Sep 23 15:56:51 2009 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Thu Sep 24 07:21:00 2009 -0700
tree 0ebd7bddf7e99915baed4955faeed2af5bba4203
parent b6e763f07fba6243d2a553ed9a4f3e10a789932a

do_wait: fix sys_waitid()-specific behaviour

do_wait() checks ->wo_info to figure out who is the caller.  If it's not
NULL the caller should be sys_waitid(), in that case do_wait() fixes up
the retval or zeros ->wo_info, depending on retval from underlying
function.

This is bug: user can pass ->wo_info == NULL and sys_waitid() will return
incorrect value.

man 2 waitid says:

	waitid(): returns 0 on success

Test-case:

	int main(void)
	{
		if (fork())
			assert(waitid(P_ALL, 0, NULL, WEXITED) == 0);

		return 0;
	}

Result:

	Assertion `waitid(P_ALL, 0, ((void *)0), 4) == 0' failed.

Move that code to sys_waitid().

User-visible change: sys_waitid() will return 0 on success, either
infop is set or not.

Note, there's another bug in wait_noreap_copyout() which affects
return value of sys_waitid(). It will be fixed in next patch.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

kernel/exit.c

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 1daa7f4..2cc69eb 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -1645,32 +1645,6 @@
 end:
 	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
 	remove_wait_queue(&current->signal->wait_chldexit, &wo->child_wait);
-
-	if (wo->wo_info) {
-		struct siginfo __user *infop = wo->wo_info;
-
-		if (retval > 0)
-			retval = 0;
-		else {
-			/*
-			 * For a WNOHANG return, clear out all the fields
-			 * we would set so the user can easily tell the
-			 * difference.
-			 */
-			if (!retval)
-				retval = put_user(0, &infop->si_signo);
-			if (!retval)
-				retval = put_user(0, &infop->si_errno);
-			if (!retval)
-				retval = put_user(0, &infop->si_code);
-			if (!retval)
-				retval = put_user(0, &infop->si_pid);
-			if (!retval)
-				retval = put_user(0, &infop->si_uid);
-			if (!retval)
-				retval = put_user(0, &infop->si_status);
-		}
-	}
 	return retval;
 }
 
@@ -1715,6 +1689,29 @@
 	wo.wo_stat	= NULL;
 	wo.wo_rusage	= ru;
 	ret = do_wait(&wo);
+
+	if (ret > 0) {
+		ret = 0;
+	} else if (infop) {
+		/*
+		 * For a WNOHANG return, clear out all the fields
+		 * we would set so the user can easily tell the
+		 * difference.
+		 */
+		if (!ret)
+			ret = put_user(0, &infop->si_signo);
+		if (!ret)
+			ret = put_user(0, &infop->si_errno);
+		if (!ret)
+			ret = put_user(0, &infop->si_code);
+		if (!ret)
+			ret = put_user(0, &infop->si_pid);
+		if (!ret)
+			ret = put_user(0, &infop->si_uid);
+		if (!ret)
+			ret = put_user(0, &infop->si_status);
+	}
+
 	put_pid(pid);
 
 	/* avoid REGPARM breakage on x86: */