[Devel] [PATCH 6/7][v7] SI_USER: Masquerade si_pid when crossing pid ns boundary

Sukadev Bhattiprolu sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat Jan 17 12:37:21 PST 2009


From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:14:18 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 6/7][v7] SI_USER: Masquerade si_pid when crossing pid ns boundary

When sending a signal to a descendant namespace, set ->si_pid to 0 since
the sender does not have a pid in the receiver's namespace.

Note:
	- If rt_sigqueueinfo() sets si_code to SI_USER when sending a
	  signal across a pid namespace boundary, the value in ->si_pid
	  will be cleared to 0.

Changelog[v5]:
	- (Oleg Nesterov) Address both sys_kill() and sys_tkill() cases
	  in send_signal() to simplify code (this drops patch 7/7 from
	  earlier version of patchset).

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/signal.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index ccc020f..81b8603 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -880,6 +880,8 @@ static int __send_signal(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t,
 			break;
 		default:
 			copy_siginfo(&q->info, info);
+			if (from_ancestor_ns)
+				q->info.si_pid = 0;
 			break;
 		}
 	} else if (!is_si_special(info)) {
-- 
1.5.2.5

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