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author | Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> | 2011-03-29 01:13:35 +0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-03-29 02:45:44 +0400 |
commit | 243b422af9ea9af4ead07a8ad54c90d4f9b6081a (patch) | |
tree | bdcd77b51cce8bd2ed5fcc41c6b430a8d6a9d74f /kernel/kmod.c | |
parent | 5847098cd896c92819800e17e983bf6530035209 (diff) | |
download | linux-243b422af9ea9af4ead07a8ad54c90d4f9b6081a.tar.xz |
Relax si_code check in rt_sigqueueinfo and rt_tgsigqueueinfo
Commit da48524eb206 ("Prevent rt_sigqueueinfo and rt_tgsigqueueinfo
from spoofing the signal code") made the check on si_code too strict.
There are several legitimate places where glibc wants to queue a
negative si_code different from SI_QUEUE:
- This was first noticed with glibc's aio implementation, which wants
to queue a signal with si_code SI_ASYNCIO; the current kernel
causes glibc's tst-aio4 test to fail because rt_sigqueueinfo()
fails with EPERM.
- Further examination of the glibc source shows that getaddrinfo_a()
wants to use SI_ASYNCNL (which the kernel does not even define).
The timer_create() fallback code wants to queue signals with SI_TIMER.
As suggested by Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, loosen the check to
forbid only the problematic SI_TKILL case.
Reported-by: Klaus Dittrich <kladit@arcor.de>
Acked-by: Julien Tinnes <jln@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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