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From: Christopher Lusk <clusk@northecho.dev>
To: "Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>
Cc: "Günther Noack" <gnoack@google.com>,
	"Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@redhat.com>,
	"Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
	"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>,
	"Tahera Fahimi" <fahimitahera@gmail.com>,
	"Paul Moore" <paul@paul-moore.com>,
	"Casey Schaufler" <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
	"John Johansen" <john.johansen@canonical.com>,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] tty: mediate TIOCSIG through task_kill LSM hooks
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:49:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260913234930.901567-1-clusk@northecho.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260913221958.839429-2-clusk@northecho.dev>

The bot's finding is correct, and this is a regression this patch
introduces, so I want to flag it and the v2 direction up front.

kill_pgrp_lsm() calls security_task_kill() with __si_special(priv), i.e.
SEND_SIG_PRIV ((void *)1).  On the ordinary paths,
check_kill_permission() returns early via si_fromuser() before the hook,
so security_task_kill() never receives that sentinel.  This patch reaches
the hook directly and breaks that invariant.  The in-tree C LSMs do not
dereference info, but task_kill is a trusted BPF LSM hook.  An attached BPF
LSM program is therefore allowed to dereference info and can fault when it
receives (void *)1.

v2 will synthesize a valid kernel_siginfo for the LSM check
(user-attributed, since TIOCSIG is user-triggered) and keep the privileged
delivery unchanged, so the hook always sees a valid pointer.

This does not change the two questions the RFC is really asking (whether
TIOCSIG should be mediated at all, and task_kill versus a dedicated TTY
signal hook).  If the answer is a dedicated hook, the siginfo concern goes
away with it.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-13 23:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-13 22:19 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Landlock signal scope and TIOCSIG Christopher Lusk
2026-09-13 22:19 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] tty: mediate TIOCSIG through task_kill LSM hooks Christopher Lusk
2026-09-13 22:37   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-13 23:49   ` Christopher Lusk [this message]
2026-09-13 22:19 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] selftests/landlock: cover TIOCSIG signal scoping Christopher Lusk
2026-09-13 22:26   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-14  9:34 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Landlock signal scope and TIOCSIG Günther Noack
2026-09-14 13:40   ` Christopher Lusk
2026-09-14 17:13     ` Günther Noack
2026-09-23 10:03     ` Mickaël Salaün
2026-09-14 18:09   ` [PATCH] docs: landlock: clarify TTY signal scoping Christopher Lusk
2026-09-16 12:18     ` Günther Noack
2026-09-16 14:52       ` Christopher Lusk
2026-09-16 15:42         ` Günther Noack

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