Re: [PATCH 7/7][v8] SI_USER: Masquerade si_pid when crossing pid ns boundary

Oleg Nesterov
2009-02-20T00:32:53Z

On 02/19, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > On 02/19, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >>
> >> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> writes:
> >> >
> >> > SI_FROMUSER() == T, unless we have more (hopefully not) in-kernel
> >> > users which send SI_FROMUSER() signals, .si_pid must be valid?
> >>
> >> So the argument is that while things such as force_sig_info(SIGSEGV)
> >> don't have a si_pid we don't care because from_ancestor_ns == 0.
> >>
> >> Interesting. Then I don't know if we have any kernel senders
> >> that cross the namespace boundaries.
> >>
> >> That said I still object to this code.
> >>
> >> sys_kill(-pgrp, SIGUSR1)
> >> kill_something_info(SIGUSR1, &info, 0)
> >> __kill_pgrp_info(SIGUSR1, &info task_pgrp(current))
> >> group_send_sig_info(SIGUSR1, &info, tsk)
> >> __group_send_sig_info(SIGUSR1, &info, tsk)
> >> send_signal(SIGUSR1, &info, tsk, 1)
> >> __send_signal(SIGUSR1, &info, tsk, 1)
> >>
> >>
> >> Process groups and sessions can have processes in multiple pid
> >> namespaces, which is very useful for not messing up your controlling
> >> terminal.
> >>
> >> In which case sys_kill cannot possibly set the si_pid value correct
> >> and from_ancestor_ns is not enough either.
> >
> > (I know, I shouldn't reply today because I am already sleeping ;)
> >
> > Why? send_signal() should calculate the correct value of
> > from_parent and pass it to __send_signal(). If it is true, then
> > we clear .si_pid in the copied siginfo (which was already queued).
> > We don't mangle the original siginfo.
> >
> > This happens for each process we send the signal.
> >
> > Or I misunderstood you?
>
> Suppose I have 3 processes in a process group in three separate pid
> namespaces.
>
> Looking from the init pid namespace I have:
> pid pgrp ppid
> 10 10 1
> 11 10 10
> 12 10 11
>
> Looking from the pid namespace of pid 11 I have:
> pid pgrp ppid
> 0 0 0
> 1 0 0
> 2 0 1
>
> Looking from the pid namespace of pid 12 I have:
> pid pgrp ppid
> 0 0 0
> 0 0 0
> 1 0 0
>
> So if the process with pid 12 in the initial pid namespace
> sends to process group 0.

But this is the different problem, it is not that we clear si_pid while
we shouldn't, just the .si_pid passed from kill_something_info() is not
right.

Personally, I think we should not allow to send signals outside our
namespace (except SIGCHLD on exit), this looks just wrong to me. And
some time ago copy_process(CLONE_PID) did "setsid".

Hmm... that was changed by your commit 5cd17569fd0eeca510735e63a6061291e3971bf6.
And while I agree with this commit, I think that cinit should do sys_setsid()
itself to detach itself from the parent namespace.

Or. We can fix the case you described. We can move "si_pid = task_tgid_vnr()"
from sys_kill/do_tkill/etc to send_signal(), it can calculate the correct
.si_pid looking at sender/receiver namespaces.

Oleg.