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Commit da48524e authored by Julien Tinnes's avatar Julien Tinnes Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Prevent rt_sigqueueinfo and rt_tgsigqueueinfo from spoofing the signal code



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: default avatarJulien Tinnes <jln@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent b52307ca
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