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authorRafal Krypa <r.krypa@samsung.com>2016-04-04 11:14:53 +0200
committerCasey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>2016-06-08 13:52:31 -0700
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Smack: ignore null signal in smack_task_kill
Kill with signal number 0 is commonly used for checking PID existence. Smack treated such cases like any other kills, although no signal is actually delivered when sig == 0. Checking permissions when sig == 0 didn't prevent an unprivileged caller from learning whether PID exists or not. When it existed, kernel returned EPERM, when it didn't - ESRCH. The only effect of policy check in such case is noise in audit logs. This change lets Smack silently ignore kill() invocations with sig == 0. Signed-off-by: Rafal Krypa <r.krypa@samsung.com> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/smack/smack_lsm.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
index 6777295f4b2b..e96080eaacbb 100644
--- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
+++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
@@ -2227,6 +2227,9 @@ static int smack_task_kill(struct task_struct *p, struct siginfo *info,
struct smack_known *tkp = smk_of_task_struct(p);
int rc;
+ if (!sig)
+ return 0; /* null signal; existence test */
+
smk_ad_init(&ad, __func__, LSM_AUDIT_DATA_TASK);
smk_ad_setfield_u_tsk(&ad, p);
/*