Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel...

[cascardo/linux.git] / kernel / seccomp.c

diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c
index ef6c6c3..0db7c8a 100644 (file)
--- 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)