linux-toradex.git/include/linux/cred.h, branch v2.6.36-rc5

CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner comment

2010-07-29T22:16:18+00:00

Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check by removing the following validation
condition:

	lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held()

as commit_creds() does not take the tasklist_lock, and nor do most of the
functions that call it, so this check is pointless and it can prevent
detection of the RCU lock not being held if the tasklist_lock is held.

Instead, add the following validation condition:

	task->exit_state >= 0

to permit the access if the target task is dead and therefore unable to change
its own credentials.

Fix __task_cred()'s comment to:

 (1) discard the bit that says that the caller must prevent the target task
     from being deleted.  That shouldn't need saying.

 (2) Add a comment indicating the result of __task_cred() should not be passed
     directly to get_cred(), but rather than get_task_cred() should be used
     instead.

Also put a note into the documentation to enforce this point there too.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

CRED: Fix get_task_cred() and task_state() to not resurrect dead credentials

2010-07-29T22:16:17+00:00

It's possible for get_task_cred() as it currently stands to 'corrupt' a set of
credentials by incrementing their usage count after their replacement by the
task being accessed.

What happens is that get_task_cred() can race with commit_creds():

	TASK_1			TASK_2			RCU_CLEANER
	-->get_task_cred(TASK_2)
	rcu_read_lock()
	__cred = __task_cred(TASK_2)
				-->commit_creds()
				old_cred = TASK_2->real_cred
				TASK_2->real_cred = ...
				put_cred(old_cred)
				  call_rcu(old_cred)
		[__cred->usage == 0]
	get_cred(__cred)
		[__cred->usage == 1]
	rcu_read_unlock()
							-->put_cred_rcu()
							[__cred->usage == 1]
							panic()

However, since a tasks credentials are generally not changed very often, we can
reasonably make use of a loop involving reading the creds pointer and using
atomic_inc_not_zero() to attempt to increment it if it hasn't already hit zero.

If successful, we can safely return the credentials in the knowledge that, even
if the task we're accessing has released them, they haven't gone to the RCU
cleanup code.

We then change task_state() in procfs to use get_task_cred() rather than
calling get_cred() on the result of __task_cred(), as that suffers from the
same problem.

Without this change, a BUG_ON in __put_cred() or in put_cred_rcu() can be
tripped when it is noticed that the usage count is not zero as it ought to be,
for example:

kernel BUG at kernel/cred.c:168!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run
CPU 0
Pid: 2436, comm: master Not tainted 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 #1 0HR330/OptiPlex
745
RIP: 0010:[]  [] __put_cred+0xc/0x45
RSP: 0018:ffff88019e7e9eb8  EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff880161514480 RCX: 00000000ffffffff
RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: ffff880140c690c0 RDI: ffff880140c690c0
RBP: ffff88019e7e9eb8 R08: 00000000000000d0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000040 R12: ffff880140c690c0
R13: ffff88019e77aea0 R14: 00007fff336b0a5c R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  00007f12f50d97c0(0000) GS:ffff880007400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8f461bc000 CR3: 00000001b26ce000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process master (pid: 2436, threadinfo ffff88019e7e8000, task ffff88019e77aea0)
Stack:
 ffff88019e7e9ec8 ffffffff810698cd ffff88019e7e9ef8 ffffffff81069b45
<0> ffff880161514180 ffff880161514480 ffff880161514180 0000000000000000
<0> ffff88019e7e9f28 ffffffff8106aace 0000000000000001 0000000000000246
Call Trace:
 [] put_cred+0x13/0x15
 [] commit_creds+0x16b/0x175
 [] set_current_groups+0x47/0x4e
 [] sys_setgroups+0xf6/0x105
 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 48 8d 71 ff e8 7e 4e 15 00 85 c0 78 0b 8b 75 ec 48 89 df e8 ef 4a 15 00
48 83 c4 18 5b c9 c3 55 8b 07 8b 07 48 89 e5 85 c0 74 04 <0f> 0b eb fe 65 48 8b
04 25 00 cc 00 00 48 3b b8 58 04 00 00 75
RIP  [] __put_cred+0xc/0x45
 RSP 
---[ end trace df391256a100ebdd ]---

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

umh: creds: kill subprocess_info->cred logic

2010-05-27T16:12:45+00:00

Now that nobody ever changes subprocess_info->cred we can kill this member
and related code.  ____call_usermodehelper() always runs in the context of
freshly forked kernel thread, it has the proper ->cred copied from its
parent kthread, keventd.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Neil Horman 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lock

2010-03-04T10:46:14+00:00

Lockdep-RCU commit d11c563d exported tasklist_lock, which is not
a good thing.  This patch instead exports a function that uses
lockdep to check whether tasklist_lock is held.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
LKML-Reference: <1267631219-8713-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Use lockdep-based checking on rcu_dereference()

2010-02-25T09:34:26+00:00

Update the rcu_dereference() usages to take advantage of the new
lockdep-based checking.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-6-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ -v2: fix allmodconfig missing symbol export build failure on x86 ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

include/linux/cred.h: fix build

2009-09-23T18:01:25+00:00

mips allmodconfig:

include/linux/cred.h: In function `creds_are_invalid':
include/linux/cred.h:187: error: `PAGE_SIZE' undeclared (first use in this function)
include/linux/cred.h:187: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
include/linux/cred.h:187: error: for each function it appears in.)

Fixes

commit b6dff3ec5e116e3af6f537d4caedcad6b9e5082a
Author:     David Howells 
AuthorDate: Fri Nov 14 10:39:16 2008 +1100
Commit:     James Morris 
CommitDate: Fri Nov 14 10:39:16 2008 +1100

    CRED: Separate task security context from task_struct

I think.

It's way too large to be inlined anyway.

Dunno if this needs an EXPORT_SYMBOL() yet.

Cc: David Howells 
Cc: James Morris 
Cc: Serge Hallyn 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: James Morris

Creds: creds->security can be NULL is selinux is disabled

2009-09-14T02:34:07+00:00

__validate_process_creds should check if selinux is actually enabled before
running tests on the selinux portion of the credentials struct.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris 
Signed-off-by: James Morris

KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6]

2009-09-02T11:29:22+00:00

Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring onto its parent.  This
replaces the parent's session keyring.  Because the COW credential code does
not permit one process to change another process's credentials directly, the
change is deferred until userspace next starts executing again.  Normally this
will be after a wait*() syscall.

To support this, three new security hooks have been provided:
cred_alloc_blank() to allocate unset security creds, cred_transfer() to fill in
the blank security creds and key_session_to_parent() - which asks the LSM if
the process may replace its parent's session keyring.

The replacement may only happen if the process has the same ownership details
as its parent, and the process has LINK permission on the session keyring, and
the session keyring is owned by the process, and the LSM permits it.

Note that this requires alteration to each architecture's notify_resume path.
This has been done for all arches barring blackfin, m68k* and xtensa, all of
which need assembly alteration to support TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME.  This allows the
replacement to be performed at the point the parent process resumes userspace
execution.

This allows the userspace AFS pioctl emulation to fully emulate newpag() and
the VIOCSETTOK and VIOCSETTOK2 pioctls, all of which require the ability to
alter the parent process's PAG membership.  However, since kAFS doesn't use
PAGs per se, but rather dumps the keys into the session keyring, the session
keyring of the parent must be replaced if, for example, VIOCSETTOK is passed
the newpag flag.

This can be tested with the following program:

	#include 
	#include 
	#include 

	#define KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT	18

	#define OSERROR(X, S) do { if ((long)(X) == -1) { perror(S); exit(1); } } while(0)

	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		key_serial_t keyring, key;
		long ret;

		keyring = keyctl_join_session_keyring(argv[1]);
		OSERROR(keyring, "keyctl_join_session_keyring");

		key = add_key("user", "a", "b", 1, keyring);
		OSERROR(key, "add_key");

		ret = keyctl(KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT);
		OSERROR(ret, "KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT");

		return 0;
	}

Compiled and linked with -lkeyutils, you should see something like:

	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
	Session Keyring
	       -3 --alswrv   4043  4043  keyring: _ses
	355907932 --alswrv   4043    -1   \_ keyring: _uid.4043
	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag
	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
	Session Keyring
	       -3 --alswrv   4043  4043  keyring: _ses
	1055658746 --alswrv   4043  4043   \_ user: a
	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag hello
	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
	Session Keyring
	       -3 --alswrv   4043  4043  keyring: hello
	340417692 --alswrv   4043  4043   \_ user: a

Where the test program creates a new session keyring, sticks a user key named
'a' into it and then installs it on its parent.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: James Morris

CRED: Add some configurable debugging [try #6]

2009-09-02T11:29:01+00:00

Add a config option (CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS) to turn on some debug checking
for credential management.  The additional code keeps track of the number of
pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to see that
this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred struct (which includes
all references, not just those from task_structs).

Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, the code also checks that the security
pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.

This attempts to catch the bug whereby inode_has_perm() faults in an nfsd
kernel thread on seeing cred->security be a NULL pointer (it appears that the
credential struct has been previously released):

	http://www.kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=252883

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: James Morris

include/linux/cred.h: work around gcc-4.2.4 warning in get_cred()

2009-07-19T22:45:25+00:00

With gcc 4.2.4 (building UML) I get the warning

include/linux/cred.h: In function 'get_cred':
include/linux/cred.h:189: warning: passing argument 1 of
'get_new_cred' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

Inserting an additional local variable appears to keep the compiler happy,
although it's not clear to me why this should be needed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: James Morris