Re: Q: selinux_bprm_committed_creds() && signals/do_wait

From: Stephen Smalley
Date: Wed Apr 29 2009 - 09:25:47 EST


On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 00:30 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> selinux_bprm_committed_creds:
>
> rc = avc_has_perm()
> if (rc) {
> flush_signals(current);
>
> This doesn't look right. If the task was SIGKILL'ed we must not proceed,
> the task should die. The fix is simple, we should check SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT
> and do nothing in this case, the task will exit before return to user
> space. If SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT is set, it is just wrong to drop SIGKILL and
> continue.
>
> But, before fixing, I'd like to understand why we are doing
>
> flush_signal_handlers(current, 1);
> sigemptyset(&current->blocked);
>
> later. Could someone explain ? This looks unneeded.
>
>
> Another question,
>
> wake_up_interruptible(&current->parent->signal->wait_chldexit);
>
> Shouldn't we use ->real_parent ? Afaics, we shouldn't worry about the tracer
> if current is ptraced, exec must not succeed if the tracer has no rights to
> trace this task after cred changing. But we should notify ->real_parent which
> is, well, real parent.

That makes sense to me - yes, s/parent/real_parent/.

--
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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