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exit_notify: kill the wrong capable(CAP_KILL) check 

The CAP_KILL check in exit_notify() looks just wrong, kill it.

Whatever logic we have to reset ->exit_signal, the malicious user
can bypass it if it execs the setuid application before exiting.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Oleg Nesterov 2009-04-06 16:16:02 +02:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 22ae77bc7a
commit 432870dab8
1 changed files with 1 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -837,8 +837,7 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
*/
if (tsk->exit_signal != SIGCHLD && !task_detached(tsk) &&
(tsk->parent_exec_id != tsk->real_parent->self_exec_id ||
tsk->self_exec_id != tsk->parent_exec_id) &&
!capable(CAP_KILL))
tsk->self_exec_id != tsk->parent_exec_id))
tsk->exit_signal = SIGCHLD;
signal = tracehook_notify_death(tsk, &cookie, group_dead);