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    signal: Deliver SIGTRAP on perf event asynchronously if blocked · 78ed93d7
    Marco Elver 提交于
    With SIGTRAP on perf events, we have encountered termination of
    processes due to user space attempting to block delivery of SIGTRAP.
    Consider this case:
    
        <set up SIGTRAP on a perf event>
        ...
        sigset_t s;
        sigemptyset(&s);
        sigaddset(&s, SIGTRAP | <and others>);
        sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &s, ...);
        ...
        <perf event triggers>
    
    When the perf event triggers, while SIGTRAP is blocked, force_sig_perf()
    will force the signal, but revert back to the default handler, thus
    terminating the task.
    
    This makes sense for error conditions, but not so much for explicitly
    requested monitoring. However, the expectation is still that signals
    generated by perf events are synchronous, which will no longer be the
    case if the signal is blocked and delivered later.
    
    To give user space the ability to clearly distinguish synchronous from
    asynchronous signals, introduce siginfo_t::si_perf_flags and
    TRAP_PERF_FLAG_ASYNC (opted for flags in case more binary information is
    required in future).
    
    The resolution to the problem is then to (a) no longer force the signal
    (avoiding the terminations), but (b) tell user space via si_perf_flags
    if the signal was synchronous or not, so that such signals can be
    handled differently (e.g. let user space decide to ignore or consider
    the data imprecise).
    
    The alternative of making the kernel ignore SIGTRAP on perf events if
    the signal is blocked may work for some usecases, but likely causes
    issues in others that then have to revert back to interception of
    sigprocmask() (which we want to avoid). [ A concrete example: when using
    breakpoint perf events to track data-flow, in a region of code where
    signals are blocked, data-flow can no longer be tracked accurately.
    When a relevant asynchronous signal is received after unblocking the
    signal, the data-flow tracking logic needs to know its state is
    imprecise. ]
    
    Fixes: 97ba62b2 ("perf: Add support for SIGTRAP on perf events")
    Reported-by: NDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: NMarco Elver <elver@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Acked-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
    Tested-by: NDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220404111204.935357-1-elver@google.com
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