linux-toradex.git/kernel/signal.c, branch v4.4.89

signal: protect SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE from unintentional clearing.

2017-08-11T16:08:59+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2d39b3cd34e6d323720d4c61bd714f5ae202c022 ]

Since commit 00cd5c37afd5 ("ptrace: permit ptracing of /sbin/init") we
can now trace init processes.  init is initially protected with
SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE which will prevent fatal signals such as SIGSTOP, but
there are a number of paths during tracing where SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE can
be implicitly cleared.

This can result in init becoming stoppable/killable after tracing.  For
example, running:

  while true; do kill -STOP 1; done &
  strace -p 1

and then stopping strace and the kill loop will result in init being
left in state TASK_STOPPED.  Sending SIGCONT to init will resume it, but
init will now respond to future SIGSTOP signals rather than ignoring
them.

Make sure that when setting SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED
that we don't clear SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104122017.25047-1-jamie.iles@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

signal: Only reschedule timers on signals timers have sent

2017-06-29T10:48:51+00:00

commit 57db7e4a2d92c2d3dfbca4ef8057849b2682436b upstream.

Thomas Gleixner  wrote:
> The CRIU support added a 'feature' which allows a user space task to send
> arbitrary (kernel) signals to itself. The changelog says:
>
>   The kernel prevents sending of siginfo with positive si_code, because
>   these codes are reserved for kernel.  I think we can allow a task to
>   send such a siginfo to itself.  This operation should not be dangerous.
>
> Quite contrary to that claim, it turns out that it is outright dangerous
> for signals with info->si_code == SI_TIMER. The following code sequence in
> a user space task allows to crash the kernel:
>
>    id = timer_create(CLOCK_XXX, ..... signo = SIGX);
>    timer_set(id, ....);
>    info->si_signo = SIGX;
>    info->si_code = SI_TIMER:
>    info->_sifields._timer._tid = id;
>    info->_sifields._timer._sys_private = 2;
>    rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo(..., SIGX, info);
>    sigemptyset(&sigset);
>    sigaddset(&sigset, SIGX);
>    rt_sigtimedwait(sigset, info);
>
> For timers based on CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID this
> results in a kernel crash because sigwait() dequeues the signal and the
> dequeue code observes:
>
>   info->si_code == SI_TIMER && info->_sifields._timer._sys_private != 0
>
> which triggers the following callchain:
>
>  do_schedule_next_timer() -> posix_cpu_timer_schedule() -> arm_timer()
>
> arm_timer() executes a list_add() on the timer, which is already armed via
> the timer_set() syscall. That's a double list add which corrupts the posix
> cpu timer list. As a consequence the kernel crashes on the next operation
> touching the posix cpu timer list.
>
> Posix clocks which are internally implemented based on hrtimers are not
> affected by this because hrtimer_start() can handle already armed timers
> nicely, but it's a reliable way to trigger the WARN_ON() in
> hrtimer_forward(), which complains about calling that function on an
> already armed timer.

This problem has existed since the posix timer code was merged into
2.5.63. A few releases earlier in 2.5.60 ptrace gained the ability to
inject not just a signal (which linux has supported since 1.0) but the
full siginfo of a signal.

The core problem is that the code will reschedule in response to
signals getting dequeued not just for signals the timers sent but
for other signals that happen to a si_code of SI_TIMER.

Avoid this confusion by testing to see if the queued signal was
preallocated as all timer signals are preallocated, and so far
only the timer code preallocates signals.

Move the check for if a timer needs to be rescheduled up into
collect_signal where the preallocation check must be performed,
and pass the result back to dequeue_signal where the code reschedules
timers.   This makes it clear why the code cares about preallocated
timers.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner 
History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Reference: 66dd34ad31e5 ("signal: allow to send any siginfo to itself")
Reference: 1669ce53e2ff ("Add PTRACE_GETSIGINFO and PTRACE_SETSIGINFO")
Fixes: db8b50ba75f2 ("[PATCH] POSIX clocks & timers")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernel/signal.c: unexport sigsuspend()

2015-11-21T00:17:32+00:00

sigsuspend() is nowhere used except in signal.c itself, so we can mark it
static do not pollute the global namespace.

But this patch is more than a boring cleanup patch, it fixes a real issue
on UserModeLinux.  UML has a special console driver to display ttys using
xterm, or other terminal emulators, on the host side.  Vegard reported
that sometimes UML is unable to spawn a xterm and he's facing the
following warning:

  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 908 at include/linux/thread_info.h:128 sigsuspend+0xab/0xc0()

It turned out that this warning makes absolutely no sense as the UML
xterm code calls sigsuspend() on the host side, at least it tries.  But
as the kernel itself offers a sigsuspend() symbol the linker choose this
one instead of the glibc wrapper.  Interestingly this code used to work
since ever but always blocked signals on the wrong side.  Some recent
kernel change made the WARN_ON() trigger and uncovered the bug.

It is a wonderful example of how much works by chance on computers. :-)

Fixes: 68f3f16d9ad0f1 ("new helper: sigsuspend()")
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum 
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: 	[3.5+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

coredump: ensure all coredumping tasks have SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP

2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00

task_will_free_mem() is wrong in many ways, and in particular the
SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP check is not reliable: a task can participate in the
coredumping without SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP bit set.

change zap_threads() paths to always set SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP even if
other CLONE_VM processes can't react to SIGKILL.  Fortunately, at least
oom-kill case if fine; it kills all tasks sharing the same mm, so it
should also kill the process which actually dumps the core.

The change in prepare_signal() is not strictly necessary, it just ensures
that the patch does not bring another subtle behavioural change.  But it
reminds us that this SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT/COREDUMP case needs more changes.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Kyle Walker 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Stanislav Kozina 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

signals: kill block_all_signals() and unblock_all_signals()

2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00

It is hardly possible to enumerate all problems with block_all_signals()
and unblock_all_signals().  Just for example,

1. block_all_signals(SIGSTOP/etc) simply can't help if the caller is
   multithreaded. Another thread can dequeue the signal and force the
   group stop.

2. Even is the caller is single-threaded, it will "stop" anyway. It
   will not sleep, but it will spin in kernel space until SIGCONT or
   SIGKILL.

And a lot more. In short, this interface doesn't work at all, at least
the last 10+ years.

Daniel said:

  Yeah the only times I played around with the DRM_LOCK stuff was when
  old drivers accidentally deadlocked - my impression is that the entire
  DRM_LOCK thing was never really tested properly ;-) Hence I'm all for
  purging where this leaks out of the drm subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter 
Acked-by: Dave Airlie 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

signal: fix information leak in copy_siginfo_to_user

2015-08-07T01:39:40+00:00

This function may copy the si_addr_lsb, si_lower and si_upper fields to
user mode when they haven't been initialized, which can leak kernel
stack data to user mode.

Just checking the value of si_code is insufficient because the same
si_code value is shared between multiple signals.  This is solved by
checking the value of si_signo in addition to si_code.

Signed-off-by: Amanieu d'Antras 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

signal: fix information leak in copy_siginfo_from_user32

2015-08-07T01:39:40+00:00

This function can leak kernel stack data when the user siginfo_t has a
positive si_code value.  The top 16 bits of si_code descibe which fields
in the siginfo_t union are active, but they are treated inconsistently
between copy_siginfo_from_user32, copy_siginfo_to_user32 and
copy_siginfo_to_user.

copy_siginfo_from_user32 is called from rt_sigqueueinfo and
rt_tgsigqueueinfo in which the user has full control overthe top 16 bits
of si_code.

This fixes the following information leaks:
x86:   8 bytes leaked when sending a signal from a 32-bit process to
       itself. This leak grows to 16 bytes if the process uses x32.
       (si_code = __SI_CHLD)
x86:   100 bytes leaked when sending a signal from a 32-bit process to
       a 64-bit process. (si_code = -1)
sparc: 4 bytes leaked when sending a signal from a 32-bit process to a
       64-bit process. (si_code = any)

parsic and s390 have similar bugs, but they are not vulnerable because
rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo have checks that prevent sending a positive si_code
to a different process.  These bugs are also fixed for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Amanieu d'Antras 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security

2015-06-27T20:26:03+00:00

Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "The main change in this kernel is Casey's generalized LSM stacking
  work, which removes the hard-coding of Capabilities and Yama stacking,
  allowing multiple arbitrary "small" LSMs to be stacked with a default
  monolithic module (e.g.  SELinux, Smack, AppArmor).

  See
        https://lwn.net/Articles/636056/

  This will allow smaller, simpler LSMs to be incorporated into the
  mainline kernel and arbitrarily stacked by users.  Also, this is a
  useful cleanup of the LSM code in its own right"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (38 commits)
  tpm, tpm_crb: fix le64_to_cpu conversions in crb_acpi_add()
  vTPM: set virtual device before passing to ibmvtpm_reset_crq
  tpm_ibmvtpm: remove unneccessary message level.
  ima: update builtin policies
  ima: extend "mask" policy matching support
  ima: add support for new "euid" policy condition
  ima: fix ima_show_template_data_ascii()
  Smack: freeing an error pointer in smk_write_revoke_subj()
  selinux: fix setting of security labels on NFS
  selinux: Remove unused permission definitions
  selinux: enable genfscon labeling for sysfs and pstore files
  selinux: enable per-file labeling for debugfs files.
  selinux: update netlink socket classes
  signals: don't abuse __flush_signals() in selinux_bprm_committed_creds()
  selinux: Print 'sclass' as string when unrecognized netlink message occurs
  Smack: allow multiple labels in onlycap
  Smack: fix seq operations in smackfs
  ima: pass iint to ima_add_violation()
  ima: wrap event related data to the new ima_event_data structure
  integrity: add validity checks for 'path' parameter
  ...

signals: don't abuse __flush_signals() in selinux_bprm_committed_creds()

2015-06-04T20:22:16+00:00

selinux_bprm_committed_creds()->__flush_signals() is not right, we
shouldn't clear TIF_SIGPENDING unconditionally. There can be other
reasons for signal_pending(): freezing(), JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK, and
potentially more.

Also change this code to check fatal_signal_pending() rather than
SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT, it looks a bit better.

Now we can kill __flush_signals() before it finds another buggy user.

Note: this code looks racy, we can flush a signal which was sent after
the task SID has been updated.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

signals, sched: Change all uses of JOBCTL_* from 'int' to 'long'

2015-05-08T10:04:36+00:00

c56fb6564dcd ("Fix a misaligned load inside ptrace_attach()") makes
jobctl an "unsigned long".  It makes sense to have the masks applied
to it match that type.  This is currently just a cosmetic change, but
it will prevent the mask from being unexpectedly truncated if we ever
end up with masks with more bits.

One instance of "signr" is an int, but I left this alone because the
mask ensures that it will never overflow.

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: bobby.prani@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: richard@nod.at
Cc: vdavydov@parallels.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430453997-32459-4-git-send-email-palmer@dabbelt.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar