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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Cc: stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Julien Tinnes <jln@google.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: [07/23] Prevent rt_sigqueueinfo and rt_tgsigqueueinfo from spoofing the signal code
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:55:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110325235637.198037011@clark.kroah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110325235654.GA24416@kroah.com>

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From: Julien Tinnes <jln@google.com>

commit da48524eb20662618854bb3df2db01fc65f3070c upstream.

Userland should be able to trust the pid and uid of the sender of a
signal if the si_code is SI_TKILL.

Unfortunately, the kernel has historically allowed sigqueueinfo() to
send any si_code at all (as long as it was negative - to distinguish it
from kernel-generated signals like SIGILL etc), so it could spoof a
SI_TKILL with incorrect siginfo values.

Happily, it looks like glibc has always set si_code to the appropriate
SI_QUEUE, so there are probably no actual user code that ever uses
anything but the appropriate SI_QUEUE flag.

So just tighten the check for si_code (we used to allow any negative
value), and add a (one-time) warning in case there are binaries out
there that might depend on using other si_code values.

Signed-off-by: Julien Tinnes <jln@google.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 kernel/signal.c |   16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2351,9 +2351,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(rt_sigqueueinfo, pid_t,
 		return -EFAULT;
 
 	/* Not even root can pretend to send signals from the kernel.
-	   Nor can they impersonate a kill(), which adds source info.  */
-	if (info.si_code >= 0)
+	 * Nor can they impersonate a kill()/tgkill(), which adds source info.
+	 */
+	if (info.si_code != SI_QUEUE) {
+		/* We used to allow any < 0 si_code */
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(info.si_code < 0);
 		return -EPERM;
+	}
 	info.si_signo = sig;
 
 	/* POSIX.1b doesn't mention process groups.  */
@@ -2367,9 +2371,13 @@ long do_rt_tgsigqueueinfo(pid_t tgid, pi
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/* Not even root can pretend to send signals from the kernel.
-	   Nor can they impersonate a kill(), which adds source info.  */
-	if (info->si_code >= 0)
+	 * Nor can they impersonate a kill()/tgkill(), which adds source info.
+	 */
+	if (info->si_code != SI_QUEUE) {
+		/* We used to allow any < 0 si_code */
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(info->si_code < 0);
 		return -EPERM;
+	}
 	info->si_signo = sig;
 
 	return do_send_specific(tgid, pid, sig, info);



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-26  0:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20110325235537.660072281@clark.kroah.org>
2011-03-25 23:56 ` [00/23] 2.6.32.36-longterm review Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [01/23] aio: wake all waiters when destroying ctx Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [02/23] shmem: let shared anonymous be nonlinear again Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [03/23] PCI hotplug: acpiphp: set current_state to D0 in register_slot Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [04/23] xen: set max_pfn_mapped to the last pfn mapped Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [05/23] x86: Cleanup highmap after brk is concluded Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [06/23] PCI: return correct value when writing to the "reset" attribute Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [08/23] ext3: skip orphan cleanup on rocompat fs Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [09/23] procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/maps heap check Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [10/23] proc: protect mm start_code/end_code in /proc/pid/stat Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [11/23] fbcon: Bugfix soft cursor detection in Tile Blitting Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [12/23] nfsd41: modify the members value of nfsd4_op_flags Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [13/23] nfsd: wrong index used in inner loop Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [14/23] [media] uvcvideo: Fix uvc_fixup_video_ctrl() format search Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [15/23] ehci-hcd: Bug fix: dont set a QHs Halt bit Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [16/23] USB: uss720 fixup refcount position Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [17/23] USB: cdc-acm: fix memory corruption / panic Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [18/23] USB: cdc-acm: fix potential null-pointer dereference Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [19/23] USB: cdc-acm: fix potential null-pointer dereference on disconnect Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [20/23] Input: xen-kbdfront - advertise either absolute or relative coordinates Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [21/23] SUNRPC: Never reuse the socket port after an xs_close() Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:55   ` [22/23] fs: call security_d_instantiate in d_obtain_alias V2 Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:56   ` [23/23] dcdbas: force SMI to happen when expected Greg KH
2011-03-26  0:50   ` [00/23] 2.6.32.36-longterm review Teck Choon Giam
2011-03-26  4:51     ` Greg KH

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