From 00b06da29cf9dc633cdba87acd3f57f4df3fd5c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 09:14:19 -0500 Subject: signal: Add SA_IMMUTABLE to ensure forced siganls do not get changed As Andy pointed out that there are races between force_sig_info_to_task and sigaction[1] when force_sig_info_task. As Kees discovered[2] ptrace is also able to change these signals. In the case of seeccomp killing a process with a signal it is a security violation to allow the signal to be caught or manipulated. Solve this problem by introducing a new flag SA_IMMUTABLE that prevents sigaction and ptrace from modifying these forced signals. This flag is carefully made kernel internal so that no new ABI is introduced. Longer term I think this can be solved by guaranteeing short circuit delivery of signals in this case. Unfortunately reliable and guaranteed short circuit delivery of these signals is still a ways off from being implemented, tested, and merged. So I have implemented a much simpler alternative for now. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b5d52d25-7bde-4030-a7b1-7c6f8ab90660@www.fastmail.com [2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202110281136.5CE65399A7@keescook Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 307d522f5eb8 ("signal/seccomp: Refactor seccomp signal and coredump generation") Tested-by: Andrea Righi Tested-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- include/linux/signal_types.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/signal_types.h') diff --git a/include/linux/signal_types.h b/include/linux/signal_types.h index 34cb28b8f16c..a70b2bdbf4d9 100644 --- a/include/linux/signal_types.h +++ b/include/linux/signal_types.h @@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ struct ksignal { int sig; }; +/* Used to kill the race between sigaction and forced signals */ +#define SA_IMMUTABLE 0x00800000 + #ifndef __ARCH_UAPI_SA_FLAGS #ifdef SA_RESTORER #define __ARCH_UAPI_SA_FLAGS SA_RESTORER -- cgit