From 33a2d6bc3480f9f8ac8c8def29854f98cc8bfee2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrei Vagin Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 03:25:51 -0700 Subject: Revert "fs/exec: allow to unshare a time namespace on vfork+exec" This reverts commit 133e2d3e81de5d9706cab2dd1d52d231c27382e5. Alexey pointed out a few undesirable side effects of the reverted change. First, it doesn't take into account that CLONE_VFORK can be used with CLONE_THREAD. Second, a child process doesn't enter a target time name-space, if its parent dies before the child calls exec. It happens because the parent clears vfork_done. Eric W. Biederman suggests installing a time namespace as a task gets a new mm. It includes all new processes cloned without CLONE_VM and all tasks that call exec(). This is an user API change, but we think there aren't users that depend on the old behavior. It is too late to make such changes in this release, so let's roll back this patch and introduce the right one in the next release. Cc: Alexey Izbyshev Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Florian Weimer Cc: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220913102551.1121611-3-avagin@google.com --- kernel/fork.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/fork.c') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 90c85b17bf69..66f43e0d4547 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -2046,11 +2046,8 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process( /* * If the new process will be in a different time namespace * do not allow it to share VM or a thread group with the forking task. - * - * On vfork, the child process enters the target time namespace only - * after exec. */ - if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_VM | CLONE_VFORK)) == CLONE_VM) { + if (clone_flags & (CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_VM)) { if (nsp->time_ns != nsp->time_ns_for_children) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); } -- cgit v1.2.3