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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: [20/55] Prevent rt_sigqueueinfo and rt_tgsigqueueinfo from spoofing the signal code
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:47:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110325234841.022755284@clark.kroah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110325234853.GA21145@kroah.com>

2.6.37-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

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
@@ -2421,9 +2421,13 @@ 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.  */
@@ -2437,9 +2441,13 @@ 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:[~2011-03-25 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-25 23:48 [00/55] 2.6.37.6-stable review Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:46 ` [01/55] ALSA: hda - VIA: Fix stereo mixer recording no sound issue Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:46 ` [02/55] ALSA: hda - VIA: Fix independent headphone " Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:46 ` [03/55] ALSA: hda - VIA: Add missing support for VT1718S in A-A path Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:46 ` [04/55] ALSA: hda - VIA: Fix invalid A-A path volume adjust issue Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:46 ` [05/55] ALSA: hda - VIA: Fix codec type for VT1708BCE at the right timing Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:46 ` [06/55] ALSA: hda - VIA: Fix VT1708 cant build up Headphone control issue Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [07/55] ethtool: Compat handling for struct ethtool_rxnfc Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [08/55] Revert "slab: Fix missing DEBUG_SLAB last user" Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [09/55] aio: wake all waiters when destroying ctx Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [10/55] cgroups: if you list_empty() a head then dont list_del() it Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [11/55] shmem: let shared anonymous be nonlinear again Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [12/55] mm: swap: unlock swapfile inode mutex before closing file on bad swapfiles Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [13/55] oom: prevent unnecessary oom kills or kernel panics Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [14/55] oom: skip zombies when iterating tasklist Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [15/55] oom: avoid deferring oom killer if exiting task is being traced Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [16/55] PCI hotplug: acpiphp: set current_state to D0 in register_slot Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [17/55] xen: set max_pfn_mapped to the last pfn mapped Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [18/55] intel_idle: disable NHM/WSM HW C-state auto-demotion Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [19/55] intel_idle: disable Atom/Lincroft " Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [21/55] ALSA: HDA: Fix internal mic on Dell E5420/E5520 Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [22/55] ext3: skip orphan cleanup on rocompat fs Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [23/55] sysctl: restrict write access to dmesg_restrict Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [24/55] procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/maps heap check Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [25/55] proc: protect mm start_code/end_code in /proc/pid/stat Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [26/55] fbcon: Bugfix soft cursor detection in Tile Blitting Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [27/55] nfsd41: modify the members value of nfsd4_op_flags Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [28/55] nfsd4: minor nfs4state.c reshuffling Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [29/55] nfsd4: fix struct file leak Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [30/55] nfsd: wrong index used in inner loop Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [31/55] [media] uvcvideo: Fix uvc_fixup_video_ctrl() format search Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [32/55] [media] uvcvideo: Fix descriptor parsing for video output devices Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [33/55] sh: Fix ptrace fpu state initialisation Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [34/55] sh: Fix ptrace hw_breakpoint handling Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [35/55] USB: Do not pass negative length to snoop_urb() Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [36/55] ehci-hcd: Bug fix: dont set a QHs Halt bit Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [37/55] USB: uss720 fixup refcount position Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [38/55] USB: Fix bad dma problem on WDM device disconnect Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [39/55] USB: cdc-acm: fix memory corruption / panic Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [40/55] USB: cdc-acm: fix potential null-pointer dereference Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [41/55] USB: cdc-acm: fix potential null-pointer dereference on disconnect Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [42/55] fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [43/55] Input: xen-kbdfront - advertise either absolute or relative coordinates Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [44/55] x86: Cleanup highmap after brk is concluded Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [45/55] drm: check for modesetting on modeset ioctls Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [46/55] drm/i915: Prevent racy removal of request from client list Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [47/55] drm: Fix use-after-free in drm_gem_vm_close() Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [48/55] drm/radeon/kms: prefer legacy pll algo for tv-out Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [49/55] drm/radeon/kms: fix hardcoded EDID handling Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [50/55] perf: Fix tear-down of inherited group events Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [51/55] NFS: Fix a hang/infinite loop in nfs_wb_page() Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [52/55] SUNRPC: Never reuse the socket port after an xs_close() Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [53/55] fs: call security_d_instantiate in d_obtain_alias V2 Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [54/55] dcdbas: force SMI to happen when expected Greg KH
2011-03-25 23:47 ` [55/55] ext4: skip orphan cleanup if fs has unknown ROCOMPAT features Greg KH

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