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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-09-05 08:04:07 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-09-05 08:04:07 +0200
commitfbc1ec2efe665c07c8c71f9f19edb018f7984107 (patch)
treee7df9dac12c640a83ce8859300e061f1f8913ecd /kernel/seccomp.c
parent02baff325462cc7e81241b21959c5e62e7ca575e (diff)
parentc6935931c1894ff857616ff8549b61236a19148f (diff)
Merge 4.8-rc5 into char-misc-next
We want the fixes in here for merging and testing. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/seccomp.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/seccomp.c12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c
index ef6c6c3f9d8a..0db7c8a2afe2 100644
--- a/kernel/seccomp.c
+++ b/kernel/seccomp.c
@@ -605,12 +605,16 @@ static int __seccomp_filter(int this_syscall, const struct seccomp_data *sd,
ptrace_event(PTRACE_EVENT_SECCOMP, data);
/*
* The delivery of a fatal signal during event
- * notification may silently skip tracer notification.
- * Terminating the task now avoids executing a system
- * call that may not be intended.
+ * notification may silently skip tracer notification,
+ * which could leave us with a potentially unmodified
+ * syscall that the tracer would have liked to have
+ * changed. Since the process is about to die, we just
+ * force the syscall to be skipped and let the signal
+ * kill the process and correctly handle any tracer exit
+ * notifications.
*/
if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
- do_exit(SIGSYS);
+ goto skip;
/* Check if the tracer forced the syscall to be skipped. */
this_syscall = syscall_get_nr(current, task_pt_regs(current));
if (this_syscall < 0)