file capabilities: allow sigcont within session
authorSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:00:34 +0000 (17:00 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:45:44 +0000 (18:45 -0800)
commit91ad997a34d7abca1f04e819e31eb9f3d4e20585
treed39e72f2e2ab69ccb6c69acf46173ccd8803fcc4
parent20a1022d4ac5c53f0956006fd9e30cf4846d5e58
file capabilities: allow sigcont within session

Fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9247

Allow sigcont to be sent to a process with greater capabilities if it is in
the same session.  Otherwise, a shell from which I've started a root shell
and done 'suspend' can't be restarted by the parent shell.

Also don't do file-capabilities signaling checks when uids for the
processes don't match, since the standard check_kill_permission will have
done those checks.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Tested-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
security/commoncap.c