From 6a2d90ba027adba528509ffa27097cffd3879257 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 09:23:55 -0500 Subject: ptrace: Reimplement PTRACE_KILL by always sending SIGKILL The current implementation of PTRACE_KILL is buggy and has been for many years as it assumes it's target has stopped in ptrace_stop. At a quick skim it looks like this assumption has existed since ptrace support was added in linux v1.0. While PTRACE_KILL has been deprecated we can not remove it as a quick search with google code search reveals many existing programs calling it. When the ptracee is not stopped at ptrace_stop some fields would be set that are ignored except in ptrace_stop. Making the userspace visible behavior of PTRACE_KILL a noop in those case. As the usual rules are not obeyed it is not clear what the consequences are of calling PTRACE_KILL on a running process. Presumably userspace does not do this as it achieves nothing. Replace the implementation of PTRACE_KILL with a simple send_sig_info(SIGKILL) followed by a return 0. This changes the observable user space behavior only in that PTRACE_KILL on a process not stopped in ptrace_stop will also kill it. As that has always been the intent of the code this seems like a reasonable change. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Al Viro Suggested-by: Al Viro Tested-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220505182645.497868-7-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- kernel/ptrace.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index da30dcd477a0..7105821595bc 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -1236,9 +1236,8 @@ int ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, long request, return ptrace_resume(child, request, data); case PTRACE_KILL: - if (child->exit_state) /* already dead */ - return 0; - return ptrace_resume(child, request, SIGKILL); + send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_NOINFO, child); + return 0; #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK case PTRACE_GETREGSET: -- cgit v1.2.3