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Re: [PATCH 1/2] signals: kill(-1) should only signal processes in the same namespace [message #32032 is a reply to message #32031] Thu, 17 July 2008 15:24 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Daniel Hokka Zakrisso is currently offline  Daniel Hokka Zakrisso
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Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
>> While moving Linux-VServer to using pid namespaces, I noticed that
>> kill(-1) from inside a pid namespace is currently signalling every
>> process in the entire system, including processes that are otherwise
>> unreachable from the current process.
>
> This is not a "news" actually, buy anyway - thanks :)

And yet nobody's fixed it... Kind of a critical thing, if you actually
want to use them, since most distribution's rc-scripts do a kill(-1,
SIGTERM), followed by kill(-1, SIGKILL) when halting (which, needless to
say, would be very bad).

>> This patch fixes it by making sure that only processes which are in
>> the same pid namespace as current get signalled.
>
> This is to be done, indeed, but I do not like the proposed implementation,
> since you have to walk all the tasks in the system (under tasklist_lock,
> by the way) to search for a couple of interesting ones. Better look at how
> zap_pid_ns_processes works (by the way - I saw some patch doing so some
> time ago).

The way zap_pid_ns_processes does it is worse, since it signals every
thread in the namespace rather than every thread group. So either we walk
the global tasklist, or we create a per-namespace one. Is that what we
want?

>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel@hozac.com>
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
>> b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
>> index caff528..4cf41bd 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
>> @@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ static inline struct pid_namespace *get_pid_ns(struct
>> pid_namespace *ns)
>>   extern struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(unsigned long flags, struct
>> pid_namespace *ns);
>>   extern void free_pid_ns(struct kref *kref);
>>   extern void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns);
>> +extern int task_in_pid_ns(struct task_struct *tsk,
>> +			  struct pid_namespace *pid_ns);
>>
>>   static inline void put_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
>>   {
>> @@ -72,6 +74,12 @@ static inline void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct
>> pid_namespace *ns)
>>   {
>>   	BUG();
>>   }
>> +
>> +static inline int task_in_pid_ns(struct task_struct *tsk,
>> +				  struct pid_namespace *ns)
>> +{
>> +	return 1;
>> +}
>>   #endif /* CONFIG_PID_NS */
>>
>>   static inline struct pid_namespace *task_active_pid_ns(struct
>> task_struct *tsk)
>> diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
>> index 98702b4..3e71011 100644
>> --- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
>> +++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
>> @@ -188,6 +188,26 @@ void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_namespace
>> *pid_ns)
>>   	return;
>>   }
>>
>> +/*
>> + * Checks whether tsk has a pid in the pid namespace ns.
>> + * Must be called with tasklist_lock read-locked or under
>> rcu_read_lock()
>> + */
>> +int task_in_pid_ns(struct task_struct *tsk, struct pid_namespace *ns)
>> +{
>> +	struct pid *pid = task_pid(tsk);
>> +
>> +	if (!pid)
>> +		return 0;
>> +
>> +	if (pid->level < ns->level)
>> +		return 0;
>> +
>> +	if (pid->numbers[ns->level].ns != ns)
>> +		return 0;
>> +
>> +	return 1;
>> +}
>> +
>>   static __init int pid_namespaces_init(void)
>>   {
>>   	pid_ns_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(pid_namespace, SLAB_PANIC);
>> diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
>> index 6c0958e..93713a5 100644
>> --- a/kernel/signal.c
>> +++ b/kernel/signal.c
>> @@ -1145,7 +1145,8 @@ static int kill_something_info(int sig, struct
>> siginfo *info, int pid)
>>   		struct task_struct * p;
>>
>>   		for_each_process(p) {
>> -			if (p->pid > 1 && !same_thread_group(p, current)) {
>> +			if (p->pid > 1 && !same_thread_group(p, current) &&
>> +			    task_in_pid_ns(p, current->nsproxy->pid_ns)) {
>>   				int err = group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p);
>>   				++count;
>>   				if (err != -EPERM)

-- 
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
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