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Prevent rt_sigqueueinfo and rt_tgsigqueueinfo from spoofing the signal code
authorJulien Tinnes <jln@google.com>
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:05:21 +0000 (15:05 -0700)
committerAK <andi@firstfloor.org>
Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:58:44 +0000 (11:58 -0700)
commit4f34c6e9301963bb8e6d9ad47226ece6bd8e6677
treee8c57288f4b08882bb73c59ecbc41e943e536572
parentc358c7982e8c4c5f1012a76fc3045eee29bb6824
Prevent rt_sigqueueinfo and rt_tgsigqueueinfo from spoofing the signal code

commit da48524eb20662618854bb3df2db01fc65f3070c upstream.

Userland should be able to trust the pid and uid of the sender of a
signal if the si_code is SI_TKILL.

Unfortunately, the kernel has historically allowed sigqueueinfo() to
send any si_code at all (as long as it was negative - to distinguish it
from kernel-generated signals like SIGILL etc), so it could spoof a
SI_TKILL with incorrect siginfo values.

Happily, it looks like glibc has always set si_code to the appropriate
SI_QUEUE, so there are probably no actual user code that ever uses
anything but the appropriate SI_QUEUE flag.

So just tighten the check for si_code (we used to allow any negative
value), and add a (one-time) warning in case there are binaries out
there that might depend on using other si_code values.

Signed-off-by: Julien Tinnes <jln@google.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
kernel/signal.c