linux-kernel - [ 165/167] [PATCH] exit_signal: fix the "parent has changed security domain" logic

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Date:	Wed, 09 May 2012 06:53:14 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: [ 165/167] [PATCH] exit_signal: fix the "parent has changed security domain"
 logic

3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

commit b6e238dceed36891cc633167afe7151f1f3d83c5 upstream.

exit_notify() changes ->exit_signal if the parent already did exec.
This doesn't really work, we are not going to send the signal now
if there is another live thread or the exiting task is traced. The
parent can exec before the last dies or the tracer detaches.

Move this check into do_notify_parent() which actually sends the
signal.

The user-visible change is that we do not change ->exit_signal,
and thus the exiting task is still "clone children" for
do_wait()->eligible_child(__WCLONE). Hopefully this is fine, the
current logic is racy anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 kernel/exit.c   |   14 --------------
 kernel/signal.c |    9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 51ac4ce..ce5f758 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -818,20 +818,6 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
 	if (group_dead)
 		kill_orphaned_pgrp(tsk->group_leader, NULL);
 
-	/* Let father know we died
-	 *
-	 * Thread signals are configurable, but you aren't going to use
-	 * that to send signals to arbitrary processes.
-	 * That stops right now.
-	 *
-	 * If the parent exec id doesn't match the exec id we saved
-	 * when we started then we know the parent has changed security
-	 * domain.
-	 */
-	if (thread_group_leader(tsk) && tsk->exit_signal != SIGCHLD &&
-	    tsk->parent_exec_id != tsk->real_parent->self_exec_id)
-		tsk->exit_signal = SIGCHLD;
-
 	if (unlikely(tsk->ptrace)) {
 		int sig = thread_group_leader(tsk) &&
 				thread_group_empty(tsk) &&
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 8511e39..e76001c 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1652,6 +1652,15 @@ bool do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
 	BUG_ON(!tsk->ptrace &&
 	       (tsk->group_leader != tsk || !thread_group_empty(tsk)));
 
+	if (sig != SIGCHLD) {
+		/*
+		 * This is only possible if parent == real_parent.
+		 * Check if it has changed security domain.
+		 */
+		if (tsk->parent_exec_id != tsk->parent->self_exec_id)
+			sig = SIGCHLD;
+	}
+
 	info.si_signo = sig;
 	info.si_errno = 0;
 	/*
-- 
1.7.10



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