send_sigio_to_task: sanitize the usage of fown->signum
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:27:10 +0000 (00:27 +0200)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:36:17 +0000 (15:36 -0700)
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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/fcntl.c

index f9c03ca..a040b76 100644 (file)
@@ -428,14 +428,20 @@ static inline int sigio_perm(struct task_struct *p,
 }
 
 static void send_sigio_to_task(struct task_struct *p,
-                              struct fown_struct *fown, 
+                              struct fown_struct *fown,
                               int fd,
                               int reason)
 {
-       if (!sigio_perm(p, fown, fown->signum))
+       /*
+        * F_SETSIG can change ->signum lockless in parallel, make
+        * sure we read it once and use the same value throughout.
+        */
+       int signum = ACCESS_ONCE(fown->signum);
+
+       if (!sigio_perm(p, fown, signum))
                return;
 
-       switch (fown->signum) {
+       switch (signum) {
                siginfo_t si;
                default:
                        /* Queue a rt signal with the appropriate fd as its
@@ -444,7 +450,7 @@ static void send_sigio_to_task(struct task_struct *p,
                           delivered even if we can't queue.  Failure to
                           queue in this case _should_ be reported; we fall
                           back to SIGIO in that case. --sct */
-                       si.si_signo = fown->signum;
+                       si.si_signo = signum;
                        si.si_errno = 0;
                        si.si_code  = reason;
                        /* Make sure we are called with one of the POLL_*
@@ -456,7 +462,7 @@ static void send_sigio_to_task(struct task_struct *p,
                        else
                                si.si_band = band_table[reason - POLL_IN];
                        si.si_fd    = fd;
-                       if (!group_send_sig_info(fown->signum, &si, p))
+                       if (!group_send_sig_info(signum, &si, p))
                                break;
                /* fall-through: fall back on the old plain SIGIO signal */
                case 0: