From 06f1631a1671bce2d59d58cb1debdf23e1803ebf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:57:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] signals: send_sigio: use do_send_sig_info() to avoid check_kill_permission() group_send_sig_info()->check_kill_permission() assumes that current is the sender and uses current_cred(). This is not true in send_sigio_to_task() case. From the security pov the sender is not current, but the task which did fcntl(F_SETOWN), that is why we have sigio_perm() which uses the right creds to check. Fortunately, send_sigio() always sends either SEND_SIG_PRIV or SI_FROMKERNEL() signal, so check_kill_permission() does nothing. But still it would be tidier to avoid this bogus security check and save a couple of cycles. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: stephane eranian Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed