Kill with signal number 0 is commonly used for checking PID existence.
Smack treated such cases like any other kills, although no signal is
actually delivered when sig == 0.
Checking permissions when sig == 0 didn't prevent an unprivileged caller
from learning whether PID exists or not. When it existed, kernel returned
EPERM, when it didn't - ESRCH. The only effect of policy check in such
case is noise in audit logs.
This change lets Smack silently ignore kill() invocations with sig == 0.
Signed-off-by: Rafal Krypa <r.kr...@samsung.com>
---
security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
index 11f7901..3d9bbed 100644
--- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
+++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
@@ -2227,6 +2227,9 @@ static int smack_task_kill(struct task_struct *p, struct
siginfo *info,
struct smack_known *tkp = smk_of_task_struct(p);
int rc;
+ if (!sig)
+ return 0; /* null signal; existence test */
+
smk_ad_init(&ad, __func__, LSM_AUDIT_DATA_TASK);
smk_ad_setfield_u_tsk(&ad, p);
/*
--
2.8.0.rc3
