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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-08-30 16:25:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-08-30 16:25:57 -0700
commit61b5ebd6ffc3099618a2e79903e5ee0577c10799 (patch)
treefe3e500a68b4ee94236b78590c10a0a9f13aad8b /kernel
parent86a1679860babbacd61fc1e8c0c0f43641d5860d (diff)
parent485a252a5559b45d7df04c819ec91177c62c270b (diff)
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Merge tag 'seccomp-v4.8-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull seccomp fix from Kees Cook: "Fix fatal signal delivery after ptrace reordering" * tag 'seccomp-v4.8-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: seccomp: Fix tracer exit notifications during fatal signals
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/seccomp.c12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c
index ef6c6c3..0db7c8a 100644
--- a/kernel/seccomp.c
+++ b/kernel/seccomp.c
@@ -605,12 +605,16 @@ static int __seccomp_filter(int this_syscall, const struct seccomp_data *sd,
ptrace_event(PTRACE_EVENT_SECCOMP, data);
/*
* The delivery of a fatal signal during event
- * notification may silently skip tracer notification.
- * Terminating the task now avoids executing a system
- * call that may not be intended.
+ * notification may silently skip tracer notification,
+ * which could leave us with a potentially unmodified
+ * syscall that the tracer would have liked to have
+ * changed. Since the process is about to die, we just
+ * force the syscall to be skipped and let the signal
+ * kill the process and correctly handle any tracer exit
+ * notifications.
*/
if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
- do_exit(SIGSYS);
+ goto skip;
/* Check if the tracer forced the syscall to be skipped. */
this_syscall = syscall_get_nr(current, task_pt_regs(current));
if (this_syscall < 0)
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