signal: don't silently convert SI_USER signals to non-current pidfd
authorJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Sat, 30 Mar 2019 02:12:32 +0000 (03:12 +0100)
committerChristian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Mon, 1 Apr 2019 21:03:18 +0000 (23:03 +0200)
The current sys_pidfd_send_signal() silently turns signals with explicit
SI_USER context that are sent to non-current tasks into signals with
kernel-generated siginfo.
This is unlike do_rt_sigqueueinfo(), which returns -EPERM in this case.
If a user actually wants to send a signal with kernel-provided siginfo,
they can do that with pidfd_send_signal(pidfd, sig, NULL, 0); so allowing
this case is unnecessary.

Instead of silently replacing the siginfo, just bail out with an error;
this is consistent with other interfaces and avoids special-casing behavior
based on security checks.

Fixes: 3eb39f47934f ("signal: add pidfd_send_signal() syscall")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
kernel/signal.c

index b795393..f98448c 100644 (file)
@@ -3605,16 +3605,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(pidfd_send_signal, int, pidfd, int, sig,
                if (unlikely(sig != kinfo.si_signo))
                        goto err;
 
+               /* Only allow sending arbitrary signals to yourself. */
+               ret = -EPERM;
                if ((task_pid(current) != pid) &&
-                   (kinfo.si_code >= 0 || kinfo.si_code == SI_TKILL)) {
-                       /* Only allow sending arbitrary signals to yourself. */
-                       ret = -EPERM;
-                       if (kinfo.si_code != SI_USER)
-                               goto err;
-
-                       /* Turn this into a regular kill signal. */
-                       prepare_kill_siginfo(sig, &kinfo);
-               }
+                   (kinfo.si_code >= 0 || kinfo.si_code == SI_TKILL))
+                       goto err;
        } else {
                prepare_kill_siginfo(sig, &kinfo);
        }