linux-toradex.git/fs/proc, branch v3.16.3

CAPABILITIES: remove undefined caps from all processes

2014-09-17T16:21:53+00:00

commit 7d8b6c63751cfbbe5eef81a48c22978b3407a3ad upstream.

This is effectively a revert of 7b9a7ec565505699f503b4fcf61500dceb36e744
plus fixing it a different way...

We found, when trying to run an application from an application which
had dropped privs that the kernel does security checks on undefined
capability bits.  This was ESPECIALLY difficult to debug as those
undefined bits are hidden from /proc/$PID/status.

Consider a root application which drops all capabilities from ALL 4
capability sets.  We assume, since the application is going to set
eff/perm/inh from an array that it will clear not only the defined caps
less than CAP_LAST_CAP, but also the higher 28ish bits which are
undefined future capabilities.

The BSET gets cleared differently.  Instead it is cleared one bit at a
time.  The problem here is that in security/commoncap.c::cap_task_prctl()
we actually check the validity of a capability being read.  So any task
which attempts to 'read all things set in bset' followed by 'unset all
things set in bset' will not even attempt to unset the undefined bits
higher than CAP_LAST_CAP.

So the 'parent' will look something like:
CapInh:	0000000000000000
CapPrm:	0000000000000000
CapEff:	0000000000000000
CapBnd:	ffffffc000000000

All of this 'should' be fine.  Given that these are undefined bits that
aren't supposed to have anything to do with permissions.  But they do...

So lets now consider a task which cleared the eff/perm/inh completely
and cleared all of the valid caps in the bset (but not the invalid caps
it couldn't read out of the kernel).  We know that this is exactly what
the libcap-ng library does and what the go capabilities library does.
They both leave you in that above situation if you try to clear all of
you capapabilities from all 4 sets.  If that root task calls execve()
the child task will pick up all caps not blocked by the bset.  The bset
however does not block bits higher than CAP_LAST_CAP.  So now the child
task has bits in eff which are not in the parent.  These are
'meaningless' undefined bits, but still bits which the parent doesn't
have.

The problem is now in cred_cap_issubset() (or any operation which does a
subset test) as the child, while a subset for valid cap bits, is not a
subset for invalid cap bits!  So now we set durring commit creds that
the child is not dumpable.  Given it is 'more priv' than its parent.  It
also means the parent cannot ptrace the child and other stupidity.

The solution here:
1) stop hiding capability bits in status
	This makes debugging easier!

2) stop giving any task undefined capability bits.  it's simple, it you
don't put those invalid bits in CAP_FULL_SET you won't get them in init
and you won't get them in any other task either.
	This fixes the cap_issubset() tests and resulting fallout (which
	made the init task in a docker container untraceable among other
	things)

3) mask out undefined bits when sys_capset() is called as it might use
~0, ~0 to denote 'all capabilities' for backward/forward compatibility.
	This lets 'capsh --caps="all=eip" -- -c /bin/bash' run.

4) mask out undefined bit when we read a file capability off of disk as
again likely all bits are set in the xattr for forward/backward
compatibility.
	This lets 'setcap all+pe /bin/bash; /bin/bash' run

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris 
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: Andrew Vagin 
Cc: Andrew G. Morgan 
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Steve Grubb 
Cc: Dan Walsh 
Signed-off-by: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

/proc/stat: convert to single_open_size()

2014-07-03T16:21:54+00:00

These two patches are supposed to "fix" failed order-4 memory
allocations which have been observed when reading /proc/stat.  The
problem has been observed on s390 as well as on x86.

To address the problem change the seq_file memory allocations to
fallback to use vmalloc, so that allocations also work if memory is
fragmented.

This approach seems to be simpler and less intrusive than changing
/proc/stat to use an interator.  Also it "fixes" other users as well,
which use seq_file's single_open() interface.

This patch (of 2):

Use seq_file's single_open_size() to preallocate a buffer that is large
enough to hold the whole output, instead of open coding it.  Also
calculate the requested size using the number of online cpus instead of
possible cpus, since the size of the output only depends on the number
of online cpus.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: Ian Kent 
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner 
Cc: Thorsten Diehl 
Cc: Andrea Righi 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Stefan Bader 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'next' (accumulated 3.16 merge window patches) into master

2014-06-08T18:31:16+00:00

Now that 3.15 is released, this merges the 'next' branch into 'master',
bringing us to the normal situation where my 'master' branch is the
merge window.

* accumulated work in next: (6809 commits)
  ufs: sb mutex merge + mutex_destroy
  powerpc: update comments for generic idle conversion
  cris: update comments for generic idle conversion
  idle: remove cpu_idle() forward declarations
  nbd: zero from and len fields in NBD_CMD_DISCONNECT.
  mm: convert some level-less printks to pr_*
  MAINTAINERS: adi-buildroot-devel is moderated
  MAINTAINERS: add linux-api for review of API/ABI changes
  mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging
  fs/dlm/debug_fs.c: replace seq_printf by seq_puts
  fs/dlm/lockspace.c: convert simple_str to kstr
  fs/dlm/config.c: convert simple_str to kstr
  mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated
  mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary memcg argument from soft limit functions
  mm: memcontrol: clean up memcg zoneinfo lookup
  mm/memblock.c: call kmemleak directly from memblock_(alloc|free)
  mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations
  lib/radix-tree.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for radix tree allocations
  mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace()
  mm/kmemleak.c: use %u to print ->checksum
  ...

fs/proc/vmcore.c: remove NULL assignment to static

2014-06-06T23:08:12+00:00

Static values are automatically initialized to NULL.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/proc/task_mmu.c: replace seq_printf by seq_puts

2014-06-06T23:08:12+00:00

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: add !pte_present() check on existing hugetlb_entry callbacks

2014-06-06T20:21:16+00:00

The age table walker doesn't check non-present hugetlb entry in common
path, so hugetlb_entry() callbacks must check it.  The reason for this
behavior is that some callers want to handle it in its own way.

[ I think that reason is bogus, btw - it should just do what the regular
  code does, which is to call the "pte_hole()" function for such hugetlb
  entries  - Linus]

However, some callers don't check it now, which causes unpredictable
result, for example when we have a race between migrating hugepage and
reading /proc/pid/numa_maps.  This patch fixes it by adding !pte_present
checks on buggy callbacks.

This bug exists for years and got visible by introducing hugepage
migration.

ChangeLog v2:
- fix if condition (check !pte_present() instead of pte_present())

Reported-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc:  [3.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
[ Backported to 3.15.  Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer  ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'x86/vdso' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next

2014-06-05T15:05:29+00:00

Pull x86 cdso updates from Peter Anvin:
 "Vdso cleanups and improvements largely from Andy Lutomirski.  This
  makes the vdso a lot less ''special''"

* 'x86/vdso' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/vdso, build: Make LE access macros clearer, host-safe
  x86/vdso, build: Fix cross-compilation from big-endian architectures
  x86/vdso, build: When vdso2c fails, unlink the output
  x86, vdso: Fix an OOPS accessing the HPET mapping w/o an HPET
  x86, mm: Replace arch_vma_name with vm_ops->name for vsyscalls
  x86, mm: Improve _install_special_mapping and fix x86 vdso naming
  mm, fs: Add vm_ops->name as an alternative to arch_vma_name
  x86, vdso: Fix an OOPS accessing the HPET mapping w/o an HPET
  x86, vdso: Remove vestiges of VDSO_PRELINK and some outdated comments
  x86, vdso: Move the vvar and hpet mappings next to the 64-bit vDSO
  x86, vdso: Move the 32-bit vdso special pages after the text
  x86, vdso: Reimplement vdso.so preparation in build-time C
  x86, vdso: Move syscall and sysenter setup into kernel/cpu/common.c
  x86, vdso: Clean up 32-bit vs 64-bit vdso params
  x86, mm: Ensure correct alignment of the fixmap

mm: softdirty: clear VM_SOFTDIRTY flag inside clear_refs_write() instead of clear_soft_dirty()

2014-06-04T23:53:56+00:00

clear_refs_write() is called earlier than clear_soft_dirty() and it is
more natural to clear VM_SOFTDIRTY (which belongs to VMA entry but not
PTEs) that early instead of clearing it a way deeper inside call chain.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, fs: Add vm_ops->name as an alternative to arch_vma_name

2014-05-20T18:36:31+00:00

arch_vma_name sucks.  It's a silly hack, and it's annoying to
implement correctly.  In fact, AFAICS, even the straightforward x86
implementation is incorrect (I suspect that it breaks if the vdso
mapping is split or gets remapped).

This adds a new vm_ops->name operation that can replace it.  The
followup patches will remove all uses of arch_vma_name on x86,
fixing a couple of annoyances in the process.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2eee21791bb36a0a408c5c2bdb382a9e6a41ca4a.1400538962.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

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

2014-04-12T21:49:50+00:00

Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "The first vfs pile, with deep apologies for being very late in this
  window.

  Assorted cleanups and fixes, plus a large preparatory part of iov_iter
  work.  There's a lot more of that, but it'll probably go into the next
  merge window - it *does* shape up nicely, removes a lot of
  boilerplate, gets rid of locking inconsistencie between aio_write and
  splice_write and I hope to get Kent's direct-io rewrite merged into
  the same queue, but some of the stuff after this point is having
  (mostly trivial) conflicts with the things already merged into
  mainline and with some I want more testing.

  This one passes LTP and xfstests without regressions, in addition to
  usual beating.  BTW, readahead02 in ltp syscalls testsuite has started
  giving failures since "mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for
  memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages" - might be a false
  positive, might be a real regression..."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses"
  cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev()
  ceph_sync_{,direct_}write: fix an oops on ceph_osdc_new_request() failure
  kill generic_file_buffered_write()
  ocfs2_file_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  ceph_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  xfs_file_buffered_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  export generic_perform_write(), start getting rid of generic_file_buffer_write()
  generic_file_direct_write(): get rid of ppos argument
  btrfs_file_aio_write(): get rid of ppos
  kill the 5th argument of generic_file_buffered_write()
  kill the 4th argument of __generic_file_aio_write()
  lustre: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  drbd: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  constify blk_rq_map_user_iov() and friends
  lustre: switch to kernel_sendmsg()
  ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_sendmsg()
  take iov_iter stuff to mm/iov_iter.c
  process_vm_access: tidy up a bit
  ...