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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/