On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 07:39:06AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > struct siginfo is a union and the kernel since 2.4 has been hiding a union > tag in the high 16bits of si_code using the values: > __SI_KILL > __SI_TIMER > __SI_POLL > __SI_FAULT > __SI_CHLD > __SI_RT > __SI_MESGQ > __SI_SYS > > While this looks plausible on the surface, in practice this situation has > not worked well. > > - Injected positive signals are not copied to user space properly > unless they have these magic high bits set. > > - Injected positive signals are not reported properly by signalfd > unless they have these magic high bits set. > > - These kernel internal values leaked to userspace via ptrace_peek_siginfo > > - It was possible to inject these kernel internal values and cause the > the kernel to misbehave. > > - Kernel developers got confused and expected these kernel internal values > in userspace in kernel self tests. > > - Kernel developers got confused and set si_code to __SI_FAULT which > is SI_USER in userspace which causes userspace to think an ordinary user > sent the signal and that it was not kernel generated. > > - The values make it impossible to reorganize the code to transform > siginfo_copy_to_user into a plain copy_to_user. As si_code must > be massaged before being passed to userspace. > > So remove these kernel internal si codes and make the kernel code simpler > and more maintainable. > > To replace these kernel internal magic si_codes introduce the helper > function siginfo_layout, that takes a signal number and an si_code and > computes which union member of siginfo is being used. Have > siginfo_layout return an enumeration so that gcc will have enough > information to warn if a switch statement does not handle all of union > members. > > A couple of architectures have a messed up ABI that defines signal > specific duplications of SI_USER which causes more special cases in > siginfo_layout than I would like. The good news is only problem > architectures pay the cost. > > Update all of the code that used the previous magic __SI_ values to > use the new SIL_ values and to call siginfo_layout to get those > values. Escept where not all of the cases are handled remove the > defaults in the switch statements so that if a new case is missed in > the future the lack will show up at compile time. > > Modify the code that copies siginfo si_code to userspace to just copy > the value and not cast si_code to a short first. The high bits are no > longer used to hold a magic union member. > > Fixup the siginfo header files to stop including the __SI_ values in > their constants and for the headers that were missing it to properly > update the number of si_codes for each signal type. > > The fixes to copy_siginfo_from_user32 implementations has the > interesting property that several of them perviously should never have > worked as the __SI_ values they depended up where kernel internal. > With that dependency gone those implementations should work much > better. > > The idea of not passing the __SI_ values out to userspace and then > not reinserting them has been tested with criu and criu worked without > changes. > > Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h | 2 +- > arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c | 23 +++---- > arch/blackfin/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h | 30 +++++---- > arch/frv/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h | 2 +- > arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h | 20 +++--- > arch/ia64/kernel/signal.c | 17 +++--- > arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h | 6 +- > arch/mips/kernel/signal32.c | 19 +++--- > arch/parisc/kernel/signal32.c | 31 +++++----- > arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c | 20 +++--- > arch/s390/kernel/compat_signal.c | 32 +++++----- > arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h | 4 +- > arch/sparc/kernel/signal32.c | 16 ++--- > arch/tile/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h | 4 +- > arch/tile/kernel/compat_signal.c | 18 +++--- > arch/tile/kernel/traps.c | 1 - > arch/x86/kernel/signal_compat.c | 21 +++---- > fs/fcntl.c | 2 +- > fs/signalfd.c | 22 +++---- > include/asm-generic/siginfo.h | 22 ++++--- > include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h | 102 ++++++++++++++----------------- > kernel/compat.c | 2 - > kernel/exit.c | 6 +- > kernel/ptrace.c | 6 +- > kernel/signal.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++------ > 25 files changed, 254 insertions(+), 246 deletions(-) > <...> > diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/traps.c b/arch/tile/kernel/traps.c > index 54804866f238..4433d1dc28e6 100644 > --- a/arch/tile/kernel/traps.c > +++ b/arch/tile/kernel/traps.c > @@ -188,7 +188,6 @@ static int special_ill(tile_bundle_bits bundle, int *sigp, int *codep) > > /* Make it the requested signal. */ > *sigp = sig; > - *codep = code | __SI_FAULT; Are you sure that we don't need to set codep here? > return 1; > } > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
