Use (un)lock_task_sighand instead of spin_lock_irqsave and spin_unlock_irqrestore to ensure current->sighand is a valid pointer as suggested in the email referenced below.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200618190807.GA20699@nautica/ --- net/9p/client.c | 18 ++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/9p/client.c b/net/9p/client.c index fc1f3635e5dd..15f16f2baa8f 100644 --- a/net/9p/client.c +++ b/net/9p/client.c @@ -787,9 +787,14 @@ p9_client_rpc(struct p9_client *c, int8_t type, const char *fmt, ...) } recalc_sigpending: if (sigpending) { - spin_lock_irqsave(¤t->sighand->siglock, flags); + if (!lock_task_sighand(current, &flags)) { + pr_warn("%s (%d): current->sighand==NULL in recalc_sigpending\n", + __func__, task_pid_nr(current)); + err = -ESRCH; + goto reterr; + } recalc_sigpending(); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(¤t->sighand->siglock, flags); + unlock_task_sighand(current, &flags); } if (err < 0) goto reterr; @@ -869,9 +874,14 @@ static struct p9_req_t *p9_client_zc_rpc(struct p9_client *c, int8_t type, } recalc_sigpending: if (sigpending) { - spin_lock_irqsave(¤t->sighand->siglock, flags); + if (!lock_task_sighand(current, &flags)) { + pr_warn("%s (%d): current->sighand==NULL in recalc_sigpending\n", + __func__, task_pid_nr(current)); + err = -ESRCH; + goto reterr; + } recalc_sigpending(); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(¤t->sighand->siglock, flags); + unlock_task_sighand(current, &flags); } if (err < 0) goto reterr; -- 2.27.0