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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2009-06-17 00:27:10 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-17 00:36:17 +0200
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send_sigio_to_task: sanitize the usage of fown->signum
send_sigio_to_task() reads fown->signum several times, we can race with F_SETSIG which changes ->signum lockless. In theory, this can fool security checks or we can call group_send_sig_info() with the wrong ->si_signo which does not match "int sig". Change the code to cache ->signum. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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