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authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-01-06 14:42:45 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-06 15:59:28 -0800
commit09bca05c90c639f57aae057e0c28f287e61f5a07 (patch)
tree5a5d88930380da8994525da361c9c8114ebf82fc /kernel
parentecb08d81313a3c015225236775de259d99ab47fe (diff)
SEND_SIG_NOINFO: masquerade si_pid when crossing pid-ns boundary
For SEND_SIG_NOINFO, si_pid is currently set to the pid of sender in sender's active pid namespace. But if the receiver is in a Eg: when parent sends the 'pdeath_signal' to a child that is in a descendant pid namespace, we should set si_pid 0. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-By: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 8e95855ff3c..31db63b3f88 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -858,7 +858,8 @@ static int send_signal(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t,
q->info.si_signo = sig;
q->info.si_errno = 0;
q->info.si_code = SI_USER;
- q->info.si_pid = task_pid_vnr(current);
+ q->info.si_pid = task_pid_nr_ns(current,
+ task_active_pid_ns(t));
q->info.si_uid = current_uid();
break;
case (unsigned long) SEND_SIG_PRIV: