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Date:   Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:27:41 +0200
From:   ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:     Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 2/6] signal: Fail sigqueueinfo if si_signo != sig

Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 07:19:02PM +0200, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> The kernel needs to validate that the contents of struct siginfo make
>> sense as siginfo is copied into the kernel, so that the proper union
>> members can be put in the appropriate locations.  The field si_signo
>> is a fundamental part of that validation.  As such changing the
>> contents of si_signo after the validation make no sense and can result
>> in nonsense values in the kernel.
>
> Accoding to the man page, the user should not set si_signo, it has to be set
> by kernel.
>
> $ man 2 rt_sigqueueinfo
>
>     The uinfo argument specifies the data to accompany  the  signal.   This
>        argument  is  a  pointer to a structure of type siginfo_t, described in
>        sigaction(2) (and defined  by  including  <sigaction.h>).   The  caller
>        should set the following fields in this structure:
>
>        si_code
>               This  must  be  one of the SI_* codes in the Linux kernel source
>               file include/asm-generic/siginfo.h, with  the  restriction  that
>               the  code  must  be  negative (i.e., cannot be SI_USER, which is
>               used by the kernel to indicate a signal  sent  by  kill(2))  and
>               cannot  (since  Linux  2.6.39) be SI_TKILL (which is used by the
>               kernel to indicate a signal sent using tgkill(2)).
>
>        si_pid This should be set to a process ID, typically the process ID  of
>               the sender.
>
>        si_uid This  should  be set to a user ID, typically the real user ID of
>               the sender.
>
>        si_value
>               This field contains the user data to accompany the signal.   For
>               more information, see the description of the last (union sigval)
>               argument of sigqueue(3).
>
>        Internally, the kernel sets the si_signo field to the  value  specified
>        in  sig,  so that the receiver of the signal can also obtain the signal
>        number via that field.
>
>> 
>> As such simply fail if someone is silly enough to set si_signo out of
>> sync with the signal number passed to sigqueueinfo.
>> 
>> I don't expect a problem as glibc's sigqueue implementation sets
>> "si_signo = sig" and CRIU just returns to the kernel what the kernel
>> gave to it.
>> 
>> If there is some application that calls sigqueueinfo directly that has
>> a problem with this added sanity check we can revisit this when we see
>> what kind of crazy that application is doing.
>
>
> I already know two "applications" ;)
>
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/testing/selftests/ptrace/peeksiginfo.c
> https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu/blob/master/test/zdtm/static/sigpending.c
>
> Disclaimer: I'm the author of both of them.

Fair enough.  Then this counts as a regression.  The setting in the
kernel happens in an awkward place and I will see if it can be moved
earlier.

Eric


>> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
>> ---
>>  kernel/signal.c | 6 ++++--
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
>> index 7b49c31d3fdb..e445b0a63faa 100644
>> --- a/kernel/signal.c
>> +++ b/kernel/signal.c
>> @@ -3306,7 +3306,8 @@ static int do_rt_sigqueueinfo(pid_t pid, int sig, siginfo_t *info)
>>  	    (task_pid_vnr(current) != pid))
>>  		return -EPERM;
>>  
>> -	info->si_signo = sig;
>> +	if (info->si_signo != sig)
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>>  
>>  	/* POSIX.1b doesn't mention process groups.  */
>>  	return kill_proc_info(sig, info, pid);
>> @@ -3354,7 +3355,8 @@ static int do_rt_tgsigqueueinfo(pid_t tgid, pid_t pid, int sig, siginfo_t *info)
>>  	    (task_pid_vnr(current) != pid))
>>  		return -EPERM;
>>  
>> -	info->si_signo = sig;
>> +	if (info->si_signo != sig)
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>>  
>>  	return do_send_specific(tgid, pid, sig, info);
>>  }