Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] pidfd: change pidfd_send_signal() to respect PIDFD_THREAD

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Fri Feb 16 2024 - 08:08:01 EST


On 02/16, Christian Brauner wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 01:36:56PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > and I am not sure that task_pid(current) == pid should allow
> > the "arbitrary signals" if PIDFD_SIGNAL_PROCESS_GROUP.
> >
> > Perhaps
> >
> > /* Only allow sending arbitrary signals to yourself. */
> > ret = -EPERM;
> > if ((task_pid(current) != pid || type == PIDTYPE_PGID) &&
> > (kinfo.si_code >= 0 || kinfo.si_code == SI_TKILL)
> > goto err;
>
> Honestly, we should probably just do:
>
> if (kinfo->si_code != SI_USER)
> goto err

Hmm. This doesn't look right. The purpose of the current check is to
forbid SI_TKILL and si_code >= 0, and SI_USER == 0.

SI_USER means that the target can trust the values of si_pid/si_uid
in siginfo.

> + if (kinfo.si_code != SI_USER)
> goto err;

See above...

Oleg.