| Date | Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:34:38 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | [patch 092/164] signals: check_kill_permission(): dont check creds if same_thread_group() |
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2.6.33-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
commit 065add3941bdca54fe04ed3471a96bce9af88793 upstream.
Andrew Tridgell reports that aio_read(SIGEV_SIGNAL) can fail if the notification from the helper thread races with setresuid(), see http://samba.org/~tridge/junkcode/aio_uid.c
This happens because check_kill_permission() doesn't permit sending a signal to the task with the different cred->xids. But there is not any security reason to check ->cred's when the task sends a signal (private or group-wide) to its sub-thread. Whatever we do, any thread can bypass all security checks and send SIGKILL to all threads, or it can block a signal SIG and do kill(gettid(), SIG) to deliver this signal to another sub-thread. Not to mention that CLONE_THREAD implies CLONE_VM.
Change check_kill_permission() to avoid the credentials check when the sender and the target are from the same thread group.
Also, move "cred = current_cred()" down to avoid calling get_current() twice.
Note: David Howells pointed out we could relax this even more, the CLONE_SIGHAND (without CLONE_THREAD) case probably does not need these checks too.
Roland said: : The glibc (libpthread) that does set*id across threads has : been in use for a while (2.3.4?), probably in distro's using kernels as old : or older than any active -stable streams. In the race in question, this : kernel bug is breaking valid POSIX application expectations.
Reported-by: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--- kernel/signal.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ static inline bool si_fromuser(const str static int check_kill_permission(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t) { - const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *tcred; + const struct cred *cred, *tcred; struct pid *sid; int error; @@ -639,8 +639,10 @@ static int check_kill_permission(int sig if (error) return error; + cred = current_cred(); tcred = __task_cred(t); - if ((cred->euid ^ tcred->suid) && + if (!same_thread_group(current, t) && + (cred->euid ^ tcred->suid) && (cred->euid ^ tcred->uid) && (cred->uid ^ tcred->suid) && (cred->uid ^ tcred->uid) &&
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