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author | Rafal Krypa <r.krypa@samsung.com> | 2016-04-04 11:14:53 +0200 |
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committer | Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> | 2016-06-08 22:52:31 +0200 |
commit | 18d872f77cecec2677a394170f26aaeb08562cee (patch) | |
tree | b9d58ab693ce181382a7c62a4d8a42676248a3fe /README | |
parent | security: tomoyo: simplify the gc kthread creation (diff) | |
download | linux-18d872f77cecec2677a394170f26aaeb08562cee.tar.xz linux-18d872f77cecec2677a394170f26aaeb08562cee.zip |
Smack: ignore null signal in smack_task_kill
Kill with signal number 0 is commonly used for checking PID existence.
Smack treated such cases like any other kills, although no signal is
actually delivered when sig == 0.
Checking permissions when sig == 0 didn't prevent an unprivileged caller
from learning whether PID exists or not. When it existed, kernel returned
EPERM, when it didn't - ESRCH. The only effect of policy check in such
case is noise in audit logs.
This change lets Smack silently ignore kill() invocations with sig == 0.
Signed-off-by: Rafal Krypa <r.krypa@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
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