linux-toradex.git/kernel/ptrace.c, branch v3.10.51

exec/ptrace: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests

2013-11-29T19:11:44+00:00

commit d049f74f2dbe71354d43d393ac3a188947811348 upstream.

The get_dumpable() return value is not boolean.  Most users of the
function actually want to be testing for non-SUID_DUMP_USER(1) rather than
SUID_DUMP_DISABLE(0).  The SUID_DUMP_ROOT(2) is also considered a
protected state.  Almost all places did this correctly, excepting the two
places fixed in this patch.

Wrong logic:
    if (dumpable == SUID_DUMP_DISABLE) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (dumpable == 0) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (!dumpable) { /* be protective */ }

Correct logic:
    if (dumpable != SUID_DUMP_USER) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (dumpable != 1) { /* be protective */ }

Without this patch, if the system had set the sysctl fs/suid_dumpable=2, a
user was able to ptrace attach to processes that had dropped privileges to
that user.  (This may have been partially mitigated if Yama was enabled.)

The macros have been moved into the file that declares get/set_dumpable(),
which means things like the ia64 code can see them too.

CVE-2013-2929

Reported-by: Vasily Kulikov 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix: kernel/ptrace.c: ptrace_peek_siginfo() missing __put_user() validation

2013-06-29T18:29:08+00:00

This __put_user() could be used by unprivileged processes to write into
kernel memory.  The issue here is that even if copy_siginfo_to_user()
fails, the error code is not checked before __put_user() is executed.

Luckily, ptrace_peek_siginfo() has been added within the 3.10-rc cycle,
so it has not hit a stable release yet.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Andrey Vagin 
Cc: Roland McGrath 
Cc: Paul McKenney 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Dave Jones 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: Pedro Alves 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h

2013-05-08T03:16:25+00:00

Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Zach Brown 
Cc: Felipe Balbi 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Asai Thambi S P 
Cc: Selvan Mani 
Cc: Sam Bradshaw 
Cc: Jeff Moyer 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise 
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ptrace: add ability to retrieve signals without removing from a queue (v4)

2013-05-01T00:04:05+00:00

This patch adds a new ptrace request PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO.

This request is used to retrieve information about pending signals
starting with the specified sequence number.  Siginfo_t structures are
copied from the child into the buffer starting at "data".

The argument "addr" is a pointer to struct ptrace_peeksiginfo_args.
struct ptrace_peeksiginfo_args {
	u64 off;	/* from which siginfo to start */
	u32 flags;
	s32 nr;		/* how may siginfos to take */
};

"nr" has type "s32", because ptrace() returns "long", which has 32 bits on
i386 and a negative values is used for errors.

Currently here is only one flag PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO_SHARED for dumping
signals from process-wide queue.  If this flag is not set, signals are
read from a per-thread queue.

The request PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO returns a number of dumped signals.  If a
signal with the specified sequence number doesn't exist, ptrace returns
zero.  The request returns an error, if no signal has been dumped.

Errors:
EINVAL - one or more specified flags are not supported or nr is negative
EFAULT - buf or addr is outside your accessible address space.

A result siginfo contains a kernel part of si_code which usually striped,
but it's required for queuing the same siginfo back during restore of
pending signals.

This functionality is required for checkpointing pending signals.  Pedro
Alves suggested using it in "gdb" to peek at pending signals.  gdb already
uses PTRACE_GETSIGINFO to get the siginfo for the signal which was already
dequeued.  This functionality allows gdb to look at the pending signals
which were not reported yet.

The prototype of this code was developed by Oleg Nesterov.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin 
Cc: Roland McGrath 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Dave Jones 
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Pedro Alves 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uprobes: Add exports for module use

2013-02-08T16:47:13+00:00

The original pull message for uprobes (commit 654443e2) noted:

  This tree includes uprobes support in 'perf probe' - but SystemTap
  (and other tools) can take advantage of user probe points as well.

In order to actually be usable in module-based tools like SystemTap, the
interface needs to be exported.  This patch first adds the obvious
exports for uprobe_register and uprobe_unregister.  Then it also adds
one for task_user_regset_view, which is necessary to get the correct
state of userspace registers.

Signed-off-by: Josh Stone 
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov

ptrace: ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL

2013-01-22T18:08:00+00:00

putreg() assumes that the tracee is not running and pt_regs_access() can
safely play with its stack.  However a killed tracee can return from
ptrace_stop() to the low-level asm code and do RESTORE_REST, this means
that debugger can actually read/modify the kernel stack until the tracee
does SAVE_REST again.

set_task_blockstep() can race with SIGKILL too and in some sense this
race is even worse, the very fact the tracee can be woken up breaks the
logic.

As Linus suggested we can clear TASK_WAKEKILL around the arch_ptrace()
call, this ensures that nobody can ever wakeup the tracee while the
debugger looks at it.  Not only this fixes the mentioned problems, we
can do some cleanups/simplifications in arch_ptrace() paths.

Probably ptrace_unfreeze_traced() needs more callers, for example it
makes sense to make the tracee killable for oom-killer before
access_process_vm().

While at it, add the comment into may_ptrace_stop() to explain why
ptrace_stop() still can't rely on SIGKILL and signal_pending_state().

Reported-by: Salman Qazi 
Reported-by: Suleiman Souhlal 
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ptrace: introduce signal_wake_up_state() and ptrace_signal_wake_up()

2013-01-22T16:50:08+00:00

Cleanup and preparation for the next change.

signal_wake_up(resume => true) is overused. None of ptrace/jctl callers
actually want to wakeup a TASK_WAKEKILL task, but they can't specify the
necessary mask.

Turn signal_wake_up() into signal_wake_up_state(state), reintroduce
signal_wake_up() as a trivial helper, and add ptrace_signal_wake_up()
which adds __TASK_TRACED.

This way ptrace_signal_wake_up() can work "inside" ptrace_request()
even if the tracee doesn't have the TASK_WAKEKILL bit set.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ia64: kill thread_matches(), unexport ptrace_check_attach()

2013-01-20T20:26:05+00:00

The ia64 function "thread_matches()" has no users since commit
e868a55c2a8c ("[IA64] remove find_thread_for_addr()").  Remove it.

This allows us to make ptrace_check_attach() static to kernel/ptrace.c,
which is good since we'll need to change the semantics of it and fix up
all the callers.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

2012-12-18T04:58:12+00:00

Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton:
 "Incoming:

   - lots of misc stuff

   - backlight tree updates

   - lib/ updates

   - Oleg's percpu-rwsem changes

   - checkpatch

   - rtc

   - aoe

   - more checkpoint/restart support

  I still have a pile of MM stuff pending - Pekka should be merging
  later today after which that is good to go.  A number of other things
  are twiddling thumbs awaiting maintainer merges."

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (180 commits)
  scatterlist: don't BUG when we can trivially return a proper error.
  docs: update documentation about /proc//fdinfo/ fanotify output
  fs, fanotify: add @mflags field to fanotify output
  docs: add documentation about /proc//fdinfo/ output
  fs, notify: add procfs fdinfo helper
  fs, exportfs: add exportfs_encode_inode_fh() helper
  fs, exportfs: escape nil dereference if no s_export_op present
  fs, epoll: add procfs fdinfo helper
  fs, eventfd: add procfs fdinfo helper
  procfs: add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers
  tools/testing/selftests/kcmp/kcmp_test.c: print reason for failure in kcmp_test
  breakpoint selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  kcmp selftests: print fail status instead of cause make error
  kcmp selftests: make run_tests fix
  mem-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  cpu-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  mqueue selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  vm selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  ubifs: use prandom_bytes
  mtd: nandsim: use prandom_bytes
  ...

ptrace: introduce PTRACE_O_EXITKILL

2012-12-18T01:15:22+00:00

Ptrace jailers want to be sure that the tracee can never escape
from the control. However if the tracer dies unexpectedly the
tracee continues to run in potentially unsafe mode.

Add the new ptrace option PTRACE_O_EXITKILL. If the tracer exits
it sends SIGKILL to every tracee which has this bit set.

Note that the new option is not equal to the last-option << 1.  Because
currently all options have an event, and the new one starts the eventless
group.  It uses the random 20 bit, so we have the room for 12 more events,
but we can also add the new eventless options below this one.

Suggested by Amnon Shiloh.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Tested-by: Amnon Shiloh 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: Serge Hallyn 
Cc: Chris Evans 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds