2.6.38-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Roland Dreier <[email protected]> commit 243b422af9ea9af4ead07a8ad54c90d4f9b6081a upstream. Commit da48524eb206 ("Prevent rt_sigqueueinfo and rt_tgsigqueueinfo from spoofing the signal code") made the check on si_code too strict. There are several legitimate places where glibc wants to queue a negative si_code different from SI_QUEUE: - This was first noticed with glibc's aio implementation, which wants to queue a signal with si_code SI_ASYNCIO; the current kernel causes glibc's tst-aio4 test to fail because rt_sigqueueinfo() fails with EPERM. - Further examination of the glibc source shows that getaddrinfo_a() wants to use SI_ASYNCNL (which the kernel does not even define). The timer_create() fallback code wants to queue signals with SI_TIMER. As suggested by Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>, loosen the check to forbid only the problematic SI_TKILL case. Reported-by: Klaus Dittrich <[email protected]> Acked-by: Julien Tinnes <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- kernel/signal.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -2423,7 +2423,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(rt_sigqueueinfo, pid_t, /* Not even root can pretend to send signals from the kernel. * Nor can they impersonate a kill()/tgkill(), which adds source info. */ - if (info.si_code != SI_QUEUE) { + if (info.si_code >= 0 || info.si_code == SI_TKILL) { /* We used to allow any < 0 si_code */ WARN_ON_ONCE(info.si_code < 0); return -EPERM; @@ -2443,7 +2443,7 @@ long do_rt_tgsigqueueinfo(pid_t tgid, pi /* Not even root can pretend to send signals from the kernel. * Nor can they impersonate a kill()/tgkill(), which adds source info. */ - if (info->si_code != SI_QUEUE) { + if (info->si_code >= 0 || info->si_code == SI_TKILL) { /* We used to allow any < 0 si_code */ WARN_ON_ONCE(info->si_code < 0); return -EPERM; _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
