linux-toradex.git/fs/proc/base.c, branch v3.2.29

proc: make sure mem_open() doesn't pin the target's memory

2012-02-13T19:16:53+00:00

commit 6d08f2c7139790c268820a2e590795cb8333181a upstream.

Once /proc/pid/mem is opened, the memory can't be released until
mem_release() even if its owner exits.

Change mem_open() to do atomic_inc(mm_count) + mmput(), this only
pins mm_struct. Change mem_rw() to do atomic_inc_not_zero(mm_count)
before access_remote_vm(), this verifies that this mm is still alive.

I am not sure what should mem_rw() return if atomic_inc_not_zero()
fails. With this patch it returns zero to match the "mm == NULL" case,
may be it should return -EINVAL like it did before e268337d.

Perhaps it makes sense to add the additional fatal_signal_pending()
check into the main loop, to ensure we do not hold this memory if
the target task was oom-killed.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: unify mem_read() and mem_write()

2012-02-13T19:16:53+00:00

commit 572d34b946bae070debd42db1143034d9687e13f upstream.

No functional changes, cleanup and preparation.

mem_read() and mem_write() are very similar. Move this code into the
new common helper, mem_rw(), which takes the additional "int write"
argument.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: mem_release() should check mm != NULL

2012-02-13T19:16:53+00:00

commit 71879d3cb3dd8f2dfdefb252775c1b3ea04a3dd4 upstream.

mem_release() can hit mm == NULL, add the necessary check.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: clean up and fix /proc//mem handling

2012-01-26T00:13:43+00:00

commit e268337dfe26dfc7efd422a804dbb27977a3cccc upstream.

Jüri Aedla reported that the /proc//mem handling really isn't very
robust, and it also doesn't match the permission checking of any of the
other related files.

This changes it to do the permission checks at open time, and instead of
tracking the process, it tracks the VM at the time of the open.  That
simplifies the code a lot, but does mean that if you hold the file
descriptor open over an execve(), you'll continue to read from the _old_
VM.

That is different from our previous behavior, but much simpler.  If
somebody actually finds a load where this matters, we'll need to revert
this commit.

I suspect that nobody will ever notice - because the process mapping
addresses will also have changed as part of the execve.  So you cannot
actually usefully access the fd across a VM change simply because all
the offsets for IO would have changed too.

Reported-by: Jüri Aedla 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "proc: fix races against execve() of /proc/PID/fd**"

2011-11-09T23:16:00+00:00

This reverts commit aa6afca5bcaba8101f3ea09d5c3e4100b2b9f0e5.

It escalates of some of the google-chrome SELinux problems with ptrace
("Check failed: pid_ > 0.  Did not find zygote process"), and Andrew
says that it is also causing mystery lockdep reports.

Reported-by: Alex Villacís Lasso 
Requested-by: James Morris 
Requested-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's incoming - part two)

2011-11-02T23:07:27+00:00

Says Andrew:

 "60 patches.  That's good enough for -rc1 I guess.  I have quite a lot
  of detritus to be rechecked, work through maintainers, etc.

 - most of the remains of MM
 - rtc
 - various misc
 - cgroups
 - memcg
 - cpusets
 - procfs
 - ipc
 - rapidio
 - sysctl
 - pps
 - w1
 - drivers/misc
 - aio"

* akpm: (60 commits)
  memcg: replace ss->id_lock with a rwlock
  aio: allocate kiocbs in batches
  drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c: fix typo in code comment
  drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c: determine page allocation flag can_sleep outside loop
  w1: disable irqs in critical section
  drivers/w1/w1_int.c: multiple masters used same init_name
  drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: fix deadlock upon insertion and removal
  drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: add a nolock function to w1 interface
  drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: create central point for calling w1 interface
  w1: ds2760 and ds2780, use ida for id and ida_simple_get() to get it
  pps gpio client: add missing dependency
  pps: new client driver using GPIO
  pps: default echo function
  include/linux/dma-mapping.h: add dma_zalloc_coherent()
  sysctl: make CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL default to n
  sysctl: add support for poll()
  RapidIO: documentation update
  drivers/net/rionet.c: fix ethernet address macros for LE platforms
  RapidIO: fix potential null deref in rio_setup_device()
  RapidIO: add mport driver for Tsi721 bridge
  ...

proc: fix races against execve() of /proc/PID/fd**

2011-11-02T23:07:00+00:00

fd* files are restricted to the task's owner, and other users may not get
direct access to them.  But one may open any of these files and run any
setuid program, keeping opened file descriptors.  As there are permission
checks on open(), but not on readdir() and read(), operations on the kept
file descriptors will not be checked.  It makes it possible to violate
procfs permission model.

Reading fdinfo/* may disclosure current fds' position and flags, reading
directory contents of fdinfo/ and fd/ may disclosure the number of opened
files by the target task.  This information is not sensible per se, but it
can reveal some private information (like length of a password stored in a
file) under certain conditions.

Used existing (un)lock_trace functions to check for ptrace_may_access(),
but instead of using EPERM return code from it use EACCES to be consistent
with existing proc_pid_follow_link()/proc_pid_readlink() return code.  If
they differ, attacker can guess what fds exist by analyzing stat() return
code.  Patched handlers: stat() for fd/*, stat() and read() for fdindo/*,
readdir() and lookup() for fd/ and fdinfo/.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

filesystems: add set_nlink()

2011-11-02T11:53:43+00:00

Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink()
updater function.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

oom: remove oom_disable_count

2011-11-01T00:30:45+00:00

This removes mm->oom_disable_count entirely since it's unnecessary and
currently buggy.  The counter was intended to be per-process but it's
currently decremented in the exit path for each thread that exits, causing
it to underflow.

The count was originally intended to prevent oom killing threads that
share memory with threads that cannot be killed since it doesn't lead to
future memory freeing.  The counter could be fixed to represent all
threads sharing the same mm, but it's better to remove the count since:

 - it is possible that the OOM_DISABLE thread sharing memory with the
   victim is waiting on that thread to exit and will actually cause
   future memory freeing, and

 - there is no guarantee that a thread is disabled from oom killing just
   because another thread sharing its mm is oom disabled.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Ying Han 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs: show O_CLOEXE bit properly in /proc//fdinfo/ files

2011-08-06T18:51:33+00:00

The CLOEXE bit is magical, and for performance (and semantic) reasons we
don't actually maintain it in the file descriptor itself, but in a
separate bit array.  Which means that when we show f_flags, the CLOEXE
status is shown incorrectly: we show the status not as it is now, but as
it was when the file was opened.

Fix that by looking up the bit properly in the 'fdt->close_on_exec' bit
array.

Uli needs this in order to re-implement the pfiles program:

  "For normal file descriptors (not sockets) this was the last piece of
   information which wasn't available.  This is all part of my 'give
   Solaris users no reason to not switch' effort.  I intend to offer the
   code to the util-linux-ng maintainers."

Requested-by: Ulrich Drepper 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds