* + signal-avoid-shared-siginfo-namespace-rewrites.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch
@ 2026-06-28 19:12 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-06-28 19:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, stable, rostedt, peterz, oleg, nogikh, mhiramat,
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The patch titled
Subject: signal: avoid shared siginfo namespace rewrites
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is
signal-avoid-shared-siginfo-namespace-rewrites.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/signal-avoid-shared-siginfo-namespace-rewrites.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net>
Subject: signal: avoid shared siginfo namespace rewrites
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:25:08 +0000
send_signal_locked() rewrites sender ids for the target namespace. Group
sends reuse the same siginfo, so one recipient can affect the next.
Copy the siginfo before changing it.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/86a8857d58d43ee26a8b365b837fd24830343494.1782159692.git.include@grrlz.net
Fixes: 7a0cf094944e ("signal: Correct namespace fixups of si_pid and si_uid")
Signed-off-by: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Adrian Huang <adrianhuang0701@gmail.com>
Cc: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
kernel/signal.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/signal.c~signal-avoid-shared-siginfo-namespace-rewrites
+++ a/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1181,6 +1181,7 @@ static inline bool has_si_pid_and_uid(st
int send_signal_locked(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info,
struct task_struct *t, enum pid_type type)
{
+ struct kernel_siginfo rewritten;
/* Should SIGKILL or SIGSTOP be received by a pid namespace init? */
bool force = false;
@@ -1194,6 +1195,9 @@ int send_signal_locked(int sig, struct k
/* SIGKILL and SIGSTOP is special or has ids */
struct user_namespace *t_user_ns;
+ rewritten = *info;
+ info = &rewritten;
+
rcu_read_lock();
t_user_ns = task_cred_xxx(t, user_ns);
if (current_user_ns() != t_user_ns) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from include@grrlz.net are
lib-string-fix-memchr_inv-for-large-ranges.patch
signal-avoid-shared-siginfo-namespace-rewrites.patch
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