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author | Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> | 2011-03-28 14:13:35 -0700 |
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committer | Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> | 2011-04-17 16:16:18 -0400 |
commit | 40b77a71b25fd1ec84fdc3abc2f928a872884b10 (patch) | |
tree | 9410c260b8e4be41228f1c5357947c3a5fb42bcc /Documentation/ABI | |
parent | 9eab773eb3eda5d8336a8f0ac68c5e1faa5f88d5 (diff) |
Relax si_code check in rt_sigqueueinfo and rt_tgsigqueueinfo
commit 243b422af9ea9af4ead07a8ad54c90d4f9b6081a upstream.
Commit da48524eb206 ("Prevent rt_sigqueueinfo and rt_tgsigqueueinfo
from spoofing the signal code") made the check on si_code too strict.
There are several legitimate places where glibc wants to queue a
negative si_code different from SI_QUEUE:
- This was first noticed with glibc's aio implementation, which wants
to queue a signal with si_code SI_ASYNCIO; the current kernel
causes glibc's tst-aio4 test to fail because rt_sigqueueinfo()
fails with EPERM.
- Further examination of the glibc source shows that getaddrinfo_a()
wants to use SI_ASYNCNL (which the kernel does not even define).
The timer_create() fallback code wants to queue signals with SI_TIMER.
As suggested by Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, loosen the check to
forbid only the problematic SI_TKILL case.
Reported-by: Klaus Dittrich <kladit@arcor.de>
Acked-by: Julien Tinnes <jln@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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