Re: [PATCH] send_sigio_to_task: sanitize the usage of fown->signum

James Morris
2009-06-16T23:01:03Z

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> send_sigio_to_task() reads fown->signum several times, we can race with
> F_SETSIG which changes ->signum lockless. In theory, this can fool security
> checks or we can call group_send_sig_info() with the wrong ->si_signo which
> does not match "int sig".
>
> Change the code to cache ->signum.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

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