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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2012-11-19 15:21:26 -0800
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2012-11-20 10:32:08 -0800
commit235e752789eb65a81477bb82845323dfcbf93012 (patch)
treec4efa5eff81c01029ab884c0d43af16bb91b44b4 /security
parent93b69d437effff11b1c37f330d3265c37ec2f84b (diff)
downloadlinux-235e752789eb65a81477bb82845323dfcbf93012.tar.bz2
Yama: remove locking from delete path
Instead of locking the list during a delete, mark entries as invalid and trigger a workqueue to clean them up. This lets us easily handle task_free from interrupt context. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/yama/yama_lsm.c49
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
index 70cd85e3ba30..2663145d1197 100644
--- a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
+++ b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
#include <linux/ptrace.h>
#include <linux/prctl.h>
#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#define YAMA_SCOPE_DISABLED 0
#define YAMA_SCOPE_RELATIONAL 1
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ static int ptrace_scope = YAMA_SCOPE_RELATIONAL;
struct ptrace_relation {
struct task_struct *tracer;
struct task_struct *tracee;
+ bool invalid;
struct list_head node;
struct rcu_head rcu;
};
@@ -36,6 +38,29 @@ struct ptrace_relation {
static LIST_HEAD(ptracer_relations);
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ptracer_relations_lock);
+static void yama_relation_cleanup(struct work_struct *work);
+static DECLARE_WORK(yama_relation_work, yama_relation_cleanup);
+
+/**
+ * yama_relation_cleanup - remove invalid entries from the relation list
+ *
+ */
+static void yama_relation_cleanup(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ struct ptrace_relation *relation;
+
+ spin_lock(&ptracer_relations_lock);
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(relation, &ptracer_relations, node) {
+ if (relation->invalid) {
+ list_del_rcu(&relation->node);
+ kfree_rcu(relation, rcu);
+ }
+ }
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ spin_unlock(&ptracer_relations_lock);
+}
+
/**
* yama_ptracer_add - add/replace an exception for this tracer/tracee pair
* @tracer: the task_struct of the process doing the ptrace
@@ -57,10 +82,13 @@ static int yama_ptracer_add(struct task_struct *tracer,
added->tracee = tracee;
added->tracer = tracer;
+ added->invalid = false;
- spin_lock_bh(&ptracer_relations_lock);
+ spin_lock(&ptracer_relations_lock);
rcu_read_lock();
list_for_each_entry_rcu(relation, &ptracer_relations, node) {
+ if (relation->invalid)
+ continue;
if (relation->tracee == tracee) {
list_replace_rcu(&relation->node, &added->node);
kfree_rcu(relation, rcu);
@@ -72,7 +100,7 @@ static int yama_ptracer_add(struct task_struct *tracer,
out:
rcu_read_unlock();
- spin_unlock_bh(&ptracer_relations_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&ptracer_relations_lock);
return 0;
}
@@ -85,18 +113,22 @@ static void yama_ptracer_del(struct task_struct *tracer,
struct task_struct *tracee)
{
struct ptrace_relation *relation;
+ bool marked = false;
- spin_lock_bh(&ptracer_relations_lock);
rcu_read_lock();
list_for_each_entry_rcu(relation, &ptracer_relations, node) {
+ if (relation->invalid)
+ continue;
if (relation->tracee == tracee ||
(tracer && relation->tracer == tracer)) {
- list_del_rcu(&relation->node);
- kfree_rcu(relation, rcu);
+ relation->invalid = true;
+ marked = true;
}
}
rcu_read_unlock();
- spin_unlock_bh(&ptracer_relations_lock);
+
+ if (marked)
+ schedule_work(&yama_relation_work);
}
/**
@@ -223,12 +255,15 @@ static int ptracer_exception_found(struct task_struct *tracer,
rcu_read_lock();
if (!thread_group_leader(tracee))
tracee = rcu_dereference(tracee->group_leader);
- list_for_each_entry_rcu(relation, &ptracer_relations, node)
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(relation, &ptracer_relations, node) {
+ if (relation->invalid)
+ continue;
if (relation->tracee == tracee) {
parent = relation->tracer;
found = true;
break;
}
+ }
if (found && (parent == NULL || task_is_descendant(parent, tracer)))
rc = 1;