exit_notify: kill the wrong capable(CAP_KILL) check

The CAP_KILL check in exit_notify() looks just wrong, kill it.

Whatever logic we have to reset ->exit_signal, the malicious user
can bypass it if it execs the setuid application before exiting.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 6686ed1e4aa3..32cbf2607cb0 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -837,8 +837,7 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
          */
         if (tsk->exit_signal != SIGCHLD && !task_detached(tsk) &&
             (tsk->parent_exec_id != tsk->real_parent->self_exec_id ||
-             tsk->self_exec_id != tsk->parent_exec_id) &&
-            !capable(CAP_KILL))
+             tsk->self_exec_id != tsk->parent_exec_id))
                 tsk->exit_signal = SIGCHLD;
 
         signal = tracehook_notify_death(tsk, &cookie, group_dead);