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signals: send_sigio: use do_send_sig_info() to avoid check_kill_permi…
…ssion() group_send_sig_info()->check_kill_permission() assumes that current is the sender and uses current_cred(). This is not true in send_sigio_to_task() case. From the security pov the sender is not current, but the task which did fcntl(F_SETOWN), that is why we have sigio_perm() which uses the right creds to check. Fortunately, send_sigio() always sends either SEND_SIG_PRIV or SI_FROMKERNEL() signal, so check_kill_permission() does nothing. But still it would be tidier to avoid this bogus security check and save a couple of cycles. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: stephane eranian <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Roland McGrath <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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