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bpf: Skip task with pid=1 in send_signal_common()
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The following kernel panic can be triggered when a task with pid=1 attaches
a prog that attempts to send killing signal to itself, also see [1] for more
details:

  Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
  CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 6.1.0-09652-g59fe41b5255f Freescale#148
  Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
  dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x178 lib/dump_stack.c:106
  panic+0x2c4/0x60f kernel/panic.c:275
  do_exit.cold+0x63/0xe4 kernel/exit.c:789
  do_group_exit+0xd4/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:950
  get_signal+0x2460/0x2600 kernel/signal.c:2858
  arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x78/0x5d0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:306
  exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:168 [inline]
  exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x15f/0x250 kernel/entry/common.c:203
  __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:285 [inline]
  syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:296
  do_syscall_64+0x44/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

So skip task with pid=1 in bpf_send_signal_common() to avoid the panic.

  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20221222043507.33037-1-sunhao.th@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Hao Sun <sunhao.th@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230106084838.12690-1-sunhao.th@gmail.com
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SunHao-0 authored and borkmann committed Jan 6, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -848,6 +848,9 @@ static int bpf_send_signal_common(u32 sig, enum pid_type type)
return -EPERM;
if (unlikely(!nmi_uaccess_okay()))
return -EPERM;
/* Task should not be pid=1 to avoid kernel panic. */
if (unlikely(is_global_init(current)))
return -EPERM;

if (irqs_disabled()) {
/* Do an early check on signal validity. Otherwise,
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