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authorHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>2016-02-03 02:11:03 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-02-08 10:30:42 -0500
commit415e3d3e90ce9e18727e8843ae343eda5a58fad6 (patch)
tree529751765d40af6f6cfcafdc1c92b1dcafb5c8da /net/core
parentaa7b45378059a3eba1529d76f6d0b367ba614646 (diff)
downloadlinux-415e3d3e90ce9e18727e8843ae343eda5a58fad6.tar.bz2
unix: correctly track in-flight fds in sending process user_struct
The commit referenced in the Fixes tag incorrectly accounted the number of in-flight fds over a unix domain socket to the original opener of the file-descriptor. This allows another process to arbitrary deplete the original file-openers resource limit for the maximum of open files. Instead the sending processes and its struct cred should be credited. To do so, we add a reference counted struct user_struct pointer to the scm_fp_list and use it to account for the number of inflight unix fds. Fixes: 712f4aad406bb1 ("unix: properly account for FDs passed over unix sockets") Reported-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/scm.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/scm.c b/net/core/scm.c
index 14596fb37172..2696aefdc148 100644
--- a/net/core/scm.c
+++ b/net/core/scm.c
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ static int scm_fp_copy(struct cmsghdr *cmsg, struct scm_fp_list **fplp)
*fplp = fpl;
fpl->count = 0;
fpl->max = SCM_MAX_FD;
+ fpl->user = NULL;
}
fpp = &fpl->fp[fpl->count];
@@ -107,6 +108,10 @@ static int scm_fp_copy(struct cmsghdr *cmsg, struct scm_fp_list **fplp)
*fpp++ = file;
fpl->count++;
}
+
+ if (!fpl->user)
+ fpl->user = get_uid(current_user());
+
return num;
}
@@ -119,6 +124,7 @@ void __scm_destroy(struct scm_cookie *scm)
scm->fp = NULL;
for (i=fpl->count-1; i>=0; i--)
fput(fpl->fp[i]);
+ free_uid(fpl->user);
kfree(fpl);
}
}
@@ -336,6 +342,7 @@ struct scm_fp_list *scm_fp_dup(struct scm_fp_list *fpl)
for (i = 0; i < fpl->count; i++)
get_file(fpl->fp[i]);
new_fpl->max = new_fpl->count;
+ new_fpl->user = get_uid(fpl->user);
}
return new_fpl;
}