signal: In sigqueueinfo prefer sig not si_signo

Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> reported:

> Accoding to the man page, the user should not set si_signo, it has to be set
> by kernel.
>
> $ man 2 rt_sigqueueinfo
>
>     The uinfo argument specifies the data to accompany  the  signal.   This
>        argument  is  a  pointer to a structure of type siginfo_t, described in
>        sigaction(2) (and defined  by  including  <sigaction.h>).   The  caller
>        should set the following fields in this structure:
>
>        si_code
>               This  must  be  one of the SI_* codes in the Linux kernel source
>               file include/asm-generic/siginfo.h, with  the  restriction  that
>               the  code  must  be  negative (i.e., cannot be SI_USER, which is
>               used by the kernel to indicate a signal  sent  by  kill(2))  and
>               cannot  (since  Linux  2.6.39) be SI_TKILL (which is used by the
>               kernel to indicate a signal sent using tgkill(2)).
>
>        si_pid This should be set to a process ID, typically the process ID  of
>               the sender.
>
>        si_uid This  should  be set to a user ID, typically the real user ID of
>               the sender.
>
>        si_value
>               This field contains the user data to accompany the signal.   For
>               more information, see the description of the last (union sigval)
>               argument of sigqueue(3).
>
>        Internally, the kernel sets the si_signo field to the  value  specified
>        in  sig,  so that the receiver of the signal can also obtain the signal
>        number via that field.
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 07:19:02PM +0200, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> If there is some application that calls sigqueueinfo directly that has
>> a problem with this added sanity check we can revisit this when we see
>> what kind of crazy that application is doing.
>
>
> I already know two "applications" ;)
>
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/testing/selftests/ptrace/peeksiginfo.c
> https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu/blob/master/test/zdtm/static/sigpending.c
>
> Disclaimer: I'm the author of both of them.

Looking at the kernel code the historical behavior has alwasy been to prefer
the signal number passed in by the kernel.

So sigh.  Implmenet __copy_siginfo_from_user and __copy_siginfo_from_user32 to
take that signal number and prefer it.  The user of ptrace will still
use copy_siginfo_from_user and copy_siginfo_from_user32 as they do not and
never have had a signal number there.

Luckily this change has never made it farther than linux-next.

Fixes: e75dc036c445 ("signal: Fail sigqueueinfo if si_signo != sig")
Reported-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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