Re: [PATCH] user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Tue Sep 20 2011 - 14:54:21 EST


Quoting Oleg Nesterov (oleg@xxxxxxxxxx):
> On 09/19, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> >
> > __send_signal: convert the uid being sent in SI_USER to the target task's
> > user namespace.
> >
> > do_notify_parent and do_notify_parent_cldstop: map task's uid to parent's
> > user namespace
> >
> > ptrace_signal: map parent's uid into current's user namespace before
> > including in signal to current.
>
> Btw, what about the other users of ->si_uid? Say, kill() or tkill().

Well, they end up calling __send_signal().

> Looks like, we need a lot of complications to make this correct...
>
> As for send_signal(), may be we can simply do
>
>
> --- x/kernel/signal.c
> +++ x/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -1084,10 +1084,13 @@ static int __send_signal(int sig, struct
> break;
> default:
> copy_siginfo(&q->info, info);
> - if (from_ancestor_ns)
> - q->info.si_pid = 0;
> break;
> }
> +
> + if (unlikely(from_ancestor_ns)) {
> + q->info.si_pid = 0;
> + q->info.si_uid = 0;
> + }
> } else if (!is_si_special(info)) {
> if (sig >= SIGRTMIN && info->si_code != SI_USER) {
> /*
>
> ?
>
> Yes, this "breaks" sys_rt_sigqueueinfo() evem more if it is used
> to send the signal to the sub-namespace.

Eh, yeah, so we do have to use the user_ns_map_uid(), or rather your
new helper.

But you sound more alarmed than that. So I might be missing something.
You think that user_ns_map_uid() at the locations I identified in
kernel/signal.c does not suffice?

-serge
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