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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] signalfd: add support for SFD_TASK
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On 28/11/2019 00.27, Jann Horn wrote:

> One more thing, though: We'll have to figure out some way to
> invalidate the fd when the target goes through execve(), in particular
> if it's a setuid execution. Otherwise we'll be able to just steal
> signals that were intended for the other task, that's probably not
> good.
>
> So we should:
> a) prevent using ->wait() on an old signalfd once the task has gone
> through execve()
> b) kick off all existing waiters
> c) most importantly, prevent ->read() on an old signalfd once the
> task has gone through execve()
>
> We probably want to avoid using the cred_guard_mutex here, since it is
> quite broad and has some deadlocking issues; it might make sense to
> put the update of ->self_exec_id in fs/exec.c under something like the
> siglock,

What prevents one from exec'ing a trivial helper 2^32-1 times before
exec'ing into the victim binary?

Rasmus

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