'kill sig -1' must only apply to caller's namespace
authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:01:11 +0000 (14:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:38:46 +0000 (11:38 -0700)
Currently "kill <sig> -1" kills processes in all namespaces and breaks the
isolation of namespaces.  Earlier attempt to fix this was discussed at:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/23/148

As suggested by Oleg Nesterov in that thread, use "task_pid_vnr() > 1"
check since task_pid_vnr() returns 0 if process is outside the caller's
namespace.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel@hozac.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/signal.c

index 105217d..4530fc6 100644 (file)
@@ -1144,7 +1144,8 @@ static int kill_something_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, pid_t pid)
                struct task_struct * p;
 
                for_each_process(p) {
-                       if (p->pid > 1 && !same_thread_group(p, current)) {
+                       if (task_pid_vnr(p) > 1 &&
+                                       !same_thread_group(p, current)) {
                                int err = group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p);
                                ++count;
                                if (err != -EPERM)