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userns: allow killing tasks in your own or child userns
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Changelog:
	Dec  8: Fixed bug in my check_kill_permission pointed out by
	        Eric Biederman.
	Dec 13: Apply Eric's suggestion to pass target task into kill_ok_by_cred()
	        for clarity
	Dec 31: address comment by Eric Biederman:
		don't need cred/tcred in check_kill_permission.
	Jan  1: use const cred struct.
	Jan 11: Per Bastian Blank's advice, clean up kill_ok_by_cred().
	Feb 16: kill_ok_by_cred: fix bad parentheses
	Feb 23: per akpm, let compiler inline kill_ok_by_cred

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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hallyn authored and torvalds committed Mar 24, 2011
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30 changes: 22 additions & 8 deletions kernel/signal.c
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Expand Up @@ -635,14 +635,34 @@ static inline bool si_fromuser(const struct siginfo *info)
(!is_si_special(info) && SI_FROMUSER(info));
}

/*
* called with RCU read lock from check_kill_permission()
*/
static int kill_ok_by_cred(struct task_struct *t)
{
const struct cred *cred = current_cred();
const struct cred *tcred = __task_cred(t);

if (cred->user->user_ns == tcred->user->user_ns &&
(cred->euid == tcred->suid ||
cred->euid == tcred->uid ||
cred->uid == tcred->suid ||
cred->uid == tcred->uid))
return 1;

if (ns_capable(tcred->user->user_ns, CAP_KILL))
return 1;

return 0;
}

/*
* Bad permissions for sending the signal
* - the caller must hold the RCU read lock
*/
static int check_kill_permission(int sig, struct siginfo *info,
struct task_struct *t)
{
const struct cred *cred, *tcred;
struct pid *sid;
int error;

Expand All @@ -656,14 +676,8 @@ static int check_kill_permission(int sig, struct siginfo *info,
if (error)
return error;

cred = current_cred();
tcred = __task_cred(t);
if (!same_thread_group(current, t) &&
(cred->euid ^ tcred->suid) &&
(cred->euid ^ tcred->uid) &&
(cred->uid ^ tcred->suid) &&
(cred->uid ^ tcred->uid) &&
!capable(CAP_KILL)) {
!kill_ok_by_cred(t)) {
switch (sig) {
case SIGCONT:
sid = task_session(t);
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