Re: [PATCH] signal: Avoid corrupting si_pid and si_uid in do_notify_parent

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Tue Apr 21 2020 - 09:45:58 EST


Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 02:17:22PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>> On 04/21, Christian Brauner wrote:
>> >
>> > process B setnses into
>> > <pidnsC> which is a sibling pid namespace,
>>
>> please see pidns_install(), it verifies that
>>
>> * Only allow entering the current active pid namespace
>> * or a child of the current active pid namespace.
>
> I forgot about that.
>
> Though, don't we have the same problem in:
>
> static void do_notify_parent_cldstop(struct task_struct *tsk,
> bool for_ptracer, int why)
>
> at least for the for_ptrace is false case?


The same problem does not exist with do_notify_parent_cldstop because
do_notify_parent_cldstop is always called from current (there is
one case of current->group_leader but that is close enough calculations
made against current are true).

However because do_notify_parent_cldstop calculates si_pid and si_uid of
the target parent process I think we can still get the wrong si_uid.

So it probably makes sense to generalize the fixup code in send_signal
and make do_notify_parent_cldstop just generate ids in the current
namespace and let the fixup code do it's job.

Eric