linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] protect the traced SIGNAL

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Date:   Fri, 3 Nov 2017 19:42:06 +0100
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     security@...nel.org, Robert O'Callahan <robert@...llahan.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Kyle Huey <me@...ehuey.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] protect the traced SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE tasks from SIGKILL

The comment in sig_ignored() says "Tracers may want to know about
even ignored signals" but SIGKILL can not be reported to debugger
and it is just wrong to return 0 in this case: SIGKILL should only
kill the SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE task if it comes from the parent ns.

Change sig_ignored() to ignore ->ptrace if sig == SIGKILL and rely
on sig_task_ignored().

SISGTOP coming from within the namespace is not really right too
but at least debugger can intercept it, and we can't drop it here
because this will break "gdb -p 1": ptrace_attach() won't work.
Perhaps we will add another ->ptrace check later, we will see.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/signal.c | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 800a18f..b9aebe1 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -94,13 +94,15 @@ static int sig_ignored(struct task_struct *t, int sig, bool force)
 	if (sigismember(&t->blocked, sig) || sigismember(&t->real_blocked, sig))
 		return 0;

-	if (!sig_task_ignored(t, sig, force))
-		return 0;
-
 	/*
-	 * Tracers may want to know about even ignored signals.
+	 * Tracers may want to know about even ignored signal unless it
+	 * is SIGKILL which can't be reported anyway but can be ignored
+	 * by SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE task.
 	 */
-	return !t->ptrace;
+	if (t->ptrace && sig != SIGKILL)
+		return 0;
+
+	return sig_task_ignored(t, sig, force);
 }

 /*
-- 
2.5.0