This fixes a bug where a process can set the foreground process group to its
pid even if its pid is not a valid pgrp.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Donnelly <batr...@batbytes.com>
---
 drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 401d05e..c20a2fb 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -2560,9 +2560,11 @@ static int tiocspgrp(struct tty_struct *tty, struct 
tty_struct *real_tty, pid_t
 {
        struct pid *pgrp;
        pid_t pgrp_nr;
-       int retval = tty_check_change(real_tty);
+       int retval;
        unsigned long flags;
 
+       retval = tty_check_change(real_tty);
+
        if (retval == -EIO)
                return -ENOTTY;
        if (retval)
@@ -2580,6 +2582,10 @@ static int tiocspgrp(struct tty_struct *tty, struct 
tty_struct *real_tty, pid_t
        retval = -ESRCH;
        if (!pgrp)
                goto out_unlock;
+       retval = -EINVAL;
+       if (!pid_task(pgrp, PIDTYPE_PGID)) {
+               goto out_unlock;
+       }
        retval = -EPERM;
        if (session_of_pgrp(pgrp) != task_session(current))
                goto out_unlock;
-- 
Patrick Donnelly

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