linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces

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Date:	Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:12:19 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, richard@....at,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...gle.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, serge@...lyn.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces

On 09/27, Serge Hallyn wrote:
>
> Quoting Oleg Nesterov (oleg@...hat.com):
> >
> > ptrace_signal() simply fills *info with some "random" data before
> > processing the signal. It doesn't pass this info to send_signal().
>
> Oh, well not always, but it does in the case where
> 	sigismember(&current->blocked, signr);

Ah, thanks, now I see what you mean.

> But I suppose that's not a common path :)

Yes. And, in this case the task "sends" a signal to itself. This means,
whatever we do with  __send_signal() it shouldn't change info->si_uid.
(At least with fixup_uid() I suggested).

I am glad we finally understand each other, most probably I didn't read
your previous emails carefully ;)

Oleg.

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