[PATCH v2] Relax si_code check in rt_sigqueueinfo and rt_tgsigqueueinfo

[Roland Dreier]

From: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxxx>, loosen the check to
forbid only the problematic SI_TKILL case.

Reported-by: Klaus Dittrich <kladit@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/signal.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 324eff5..b2bfa3a 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2437,7 +2437,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(rt_sigqueueinfo, pid_t, pid, int, sig,
 	/* Not even root can pretend to send signals from the kernel.
 	 * Nor can they impersonate a kill()/tgkill(), which adds source info.
 	 */
-	if (info.si_code != SI_QUEUE) {
+	if (info.si_code >= 0 || info.si_code == SI_TKILL) {
 		/* We used to allow any < 0 si_code */
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(info.si_code < 0);
 		return -EPERM;
@@ -2457,7 +2457,7 @@ long do_rt_tgsigqueueinfo(pid_t tgid, pid_t pid, int sig, siginfo_t *info)
 	/* Not even root can pretend to send signals from the kernel.
 	 * Nor can they impersonate a kill()/tgkill(), which adds source info.
 	 */
-	if (info->si_code != SI_QUEUE) {
+	if (info->si_code >= 0 || info->si_code == SI_TKILL) {
 		/* We used to allow any < 0 si_code */
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(info->si_code < 0);
 		return -EPERM;
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