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Eric W. Biederman 0ca5112047 ptrace: Reimplement PTRACE_KILL by always sending SIGKILL
commit 6a2d90ba027adba528509ffa27097cffd3879257 upstream.

The current implementation of PTRACE_KILL is buggy and has been for
many years as it assumes it's target has stopped in ptrace_stop.  At a
quick skim it looks like this assumption has existed since ptrace
support was added in linux v1.0.

While PTRACE_KILL has been deprecated we can not remove it as
a quick search with google code search reveals many existing
programs calling it.

When the ptracee is not stopped at ptrace_stop some fields would be
set that are ignored except in ptrace_stop.  Making the userspace
visible behavior of PTRACE_KILL a noop in those case.

As the usual rules are not obeyed it is not clear what the
consequences are of calling PTRACE_KILL on a running process.
Presumably userspace does not do this as it achieves nothing.

Replace the implementation of PTRACE_KILL with a simple
send_sig_info(SIGKILL) followed by a return 0.  This changes the
observable user space behavior only in that PTRACE_KILL on a process
not stopped in ptrace_stop will also kill it.  As that has always
been the intent of the code this seems like a reasonable change.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220505182645.497868-7-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-06-14 18:11:24 +02:00
arch ptrace: Reimplement PTRACE_KILL by always sending SIGKILL 2022-06-14 18:11:24 +02:00
block block: return ELEVATOR_DISCARD_MERGE if possible 2022-05-25 09:14:38 +02:00
certs
crypto crypto: ecrdsa - Fix incorrect use of vli_cmp 2022-06-06 08:33:50 +02:00
Documentation docs: submitting-patches: Fix crossref to 'The canonical patch format' 2022-06-06 08:33:51 +02:00
drivers usb: core: hcd: Add support for deferring roothub registration 2022-06-14 18:11:24 +02:00
fs binfmt_flat: do not stop relocating GOT entries prematurely on riscv 2022-06-14 18:11:23 +02:00
include ptrace/xtensa: Replace PT_SINGLESTEP with TIF_SINGLESTEP 2022-06-14 18:11:24 +02:00
init init/main.c: return 1 from handled __setup() functions 2022-04-15 14:18:35 +02:00
ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-12-01 09:23:35 +01:00
kernel ptrace: Reimplement PTRACE_KILL by always sending SIGKILL 2022-06-14 18:11:24 +02:00
lib assoc_array: Fix BUG_ON during garbage collect 2022-06-06 08:33:50 +02:00
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mm zsmalloc: fix races between asynchronous zspage free and page migration 2022-06-06 08:33:50 +02:00
net bpf: Enlarge offset check value to INT_MAX in bpf_skb_{load,store}_bytes 2022-06-06 08:33:51 +02:00
samples samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed 2021-11-17 09:48:39 +01:00
scripts gcc-plugins: latent_entropy: use /dev/urandom 2022-04-20 09:19:38 +02:00
security lockdown: also lock down previous kgdb use 2022-06-06 08:33:48 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix microphone noise on ASUS TUF B550M-PLUS 2022-06-14 18:11:23 +02:00
tools x86/xen: Mark cpu_bringup_and_idle() as dead_end_function 2022-05-25 09:14:38 +02:00
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