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authorJann Horn <jannh@google.com>2019-05-29 13:31:57 +0200
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2019-06-11 15:08:28 -0500
commitf6581f5b55141a95657ef5742cf6a6bfa20a109f (patch)
treea0ccd00874d67118ab48624da6ecb633da8c6536 /kernel/cred.c
parentf6e2aa91a46d2bc79fce9b93a988dbe7655c90c0 (diff)
downloadlinux-f6581f5b55141a95657ef5742cf6a6bfa20a109f.tar.bz2
ptrace: restore smp_rmb() in __ptrace_may_access()
Restore the read memory barrier in __ptrace_may_access() that was deleted a couple years ago. Also add comments on this barrier and the one it pairs with to explain why they're there (as far as I understand). Fixes: bfedb589252c ("mm: Add a user_ns owner to mm_struct and fix ptrace permission checks") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cred.c')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index 45d77284aed0..07e069d00696 100644
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -450,6 +450,15 @@ int commit_creds(struct cred *new)
if (task->mm)
set_dumpable(task->mm, suid_dumpable);
task->pdeath_signal = 0;
+ /*
+ * If a task drops privileges and becomes nondumpable,
+ * the dumpability change must become visible before
+ * the credential change; otherwise, a __ptrace_may_access()
+ * racing with this change may be able to attach to a task it
+ * shouldn't be able to attach to (as if the task had dropped
+ * privileges without becoming nondumpable).
+ * Pairs with a read barrier in __ptrace_may_access().
+ */
smp_wmb();
}