Fatal SIGSYS signals were not being delivered to pid namespace init processes. Make sure the SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE doesn't get set for these cases. Reported-by: Robert Święcki <robert@xxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 00b06da29cf9 ("signal: Add SA_IMMUTABLE to ensure forced siganls do not get changed") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/signal.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 38602738866e..33e3ee4f3383 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -1342,9 +1342,10 @@ force_sig_info_to_task(struct kernel_siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t, } /* * Don't clear SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE for traced tasks, users won't expect - * debugging to leave init killable. + * debugging to leave init killable, unless it is intended to exit. */ - if (action->sa.sa_handler == SIG_DFL && !t->ptrace) + if (action->sa.sa_handler == SIG_DFL && + (!t->ptrace || (handler == HANDLER_EXIT))) t->signal->flags &= ~SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE; ret = send_signal(sig, info, t, PIDTYPE_PID); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&t->sighand->siglock, flags); -- 2.30.2