[PATCH] Masquerade sender information

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Thu Nov 1 09:59:31 PDT 2007


sukadev at us.ibm.com writes:

> +static void masquerade_sender(struct task_struct *t, struct sigqueue *q)
> +{
> +       /*
> +        * If the sender does not have a pid_t in the receiver's active
> +        * pid namespace, set si_pid to 0 and pretend signal originated
> +        * from the kernel.
> +        */
> +       if (!pid_ns_equal(t)) {
> +               q->info.si_pid = 0;
> +               q->info.si_uid = 0;
> +               q->info.si_code = SI_KERNEL;
> +       }
> +}

It looks like we are hooked in the right place.  However the way we
are handling this appears wrong.

First.  If we have an si_code that does not use si_pid then we should
not be changing si_pid, because the structure is a union and that field
is not always a pid value.


My gut feel says the code should be something like:

switch (q->info->si_code & __SI_MASK) {
case __SI_KILL:
case __SI_CHILD:
case __SI_RT:
case __MESQ:
       q->info->si_pid = task_pid_nr_ns(current, t->nsproxy->pid_ns);
       break;
}

Eric


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