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SubjectRe: [PATCH 7/7][v8] SI_USER: Masquerade si_pid when crossing pid ns boundary
On 02/19, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
> > From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:14:18 -0800
> > Subject: [PATCH 7/7][v8] SI_USER: Masquerade si_pid when crossing pid ns
> > boundary
> >
> > When sending a signal to a descendant namespace, set ->si_pid to 0 since
> > the sender does not have a pid in the receiver's namespace.
> >
> > Note:
> > - If rt_sigqueueinfo() sets si_code to SI_USER when sending a
> > signal across a pid namespace boundary, the value in ->si_pid
> > will be cleared to 0.
> >
> > Changelog[v5]:
> > - (Oleg Nesterov) Address both sys_kill() and sys_tkill() cases
> > in send_signal() to simplify code (this drops patch 7/7 from
> > earlier version of patchset).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> > kernel/signal.c | 2 ++
> > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
> > index c94355b..a416d77 100644
> > --- a/kernel/signal.c
> > +++ b/kernel/signal.c
> > @@ -883,6 +883,8 @@ static int __send_signal(int sig, struct siginfo *info,
> > struct task_struct *t,
> > break;
> > default:
> > copy_siginfo(&q->info, info);
> > + if (from_ancestor_ns)
> > + q->info.si_pid = 0;
>
> This is wrong. siginfo is a union and you need to inspect
> code to see if si_pid is present in the current union.

SI_FROMUSER() == T, unless we have more (hopefully not) in-kernel
users which send SI_FROMUSER() signals, .si_pid must be valid?

kill_pid_info_as_uid() was the only known sender of SI_FROMUSER
signal, it was converted to use __send_signal(from_ancestor_ns => 0).

Oleg.



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