From c69e8d9c01db2adc503464993c358901c9af9de4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:39:19 +1100 Subject: CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds. This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b) seeing deallocated memory. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: James Morris Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: James Morris --- kernel/signal.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/signal.c') diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 80e8a6489f97..84989124bafb 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -177,6 +177,11 @@ int next_signal(struct sigpending *pending, sigset_t *mask) return sig; } +/* + * allocate a new signal queue record + * - this may be called without locks if and only if t == current, otherwise an + * appopriate lock must be held to protect t's user_struct + */ static struct sigqueue *__sigqueue_alloc(struct task_struct *t, gfp_t flags, int override_rlimit) { @@ -184,11 +189,12 @@ static struct sigqueue *__sigqueue_alloc(struct task_struct *t, gfp_t flags, struct user_struct *user; /* - * In order to avoid problems with "switch_user()", we want to make - * sure that the compiler doesn't re-load "t->user" + * We won't get problems with the target's UID changing under us + * because changing it requires RCU be used, and if t != current, the + * caller must be holding the RCU readlock (by way of a spinlock) and + * we use RCU protection here */ - user = t->cred->user; - barrier(); + user = __task_cred(t)->user; atomic_inc(&user->sigpending); if (override_rlimit || atomic_read(&user->sigpending) <= @@ -562,12 +568,13 @@ static int rm_from_queue(unsigned long mask, struct sigpending *s) /* * Bad permissions for sending the signal + * - the caller must hold at least the RCU read lock */ static int check_kill_permission(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t) { + const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *tcred; struct pid *sid; - uid_t uid, euid; int error; if (!valid_signal(sig)) @@ -580,10 +587,11 @@ static int check_kill_permission(int sig, struct siginfo *info, if (error) return error; - uid = current_uid(); - euid = current_euid(); - if ((euid ^ t->cred->suid) && (euid ^ t->cred->uid) && - (uid ^ t->cred->suid) && (uid ^ t->cred->uid) && + tcred = __task_cred(t); + if ((cred->euid ^ tcred->suid) && + (cred->euid ^ tcred->uid) && + (cred->uid ^ tcred->suid) && + (cred->uid ^ tcred->uid) && !capable(CAP_KILL)) { switch (sig) { case SIGCONT: @@ -1011,6 +1019,10 @@ struct sighand_struct *lock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long return sighand; } +/* + * send signal info to all the members of a group + * - the caller must hold the RCU read lock at least + */ int group_send_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *p) { unsigned long flags; @@ -1032,8 +1044,8 @@ int group_send_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *p) /* * __kill_pgrp_info() sends a signal to a process group: this is what the tty * control characters do (^C, ^Z etc) + * - the caller must hold at least a readlock on tasklist_lock */ - int __kill_pgrp_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct pid *pgrp) { struct task_struct *p = NULL; @@ -1089,6 +1101,7 @@ int kill_pid_info_as_uid(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct pid *pid, { int ret = -EINVAL; struct task_struct *p; + const struct cred *pcred; if (!valid_signal(sig)) return ret; @@ -1099,9 +1112,11 @@ int kill_pid_info_as_uid(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct pid *pid, ret = -ESRCH; goto out_unlock; } - if ((info == SEND_SIG_NOINFO || (!is_si_special(info) && SI_FROMUSER(info))) - && (euid != p->cred->suid) && (euid != p->cred->uid) - && (uid != p->cred->suid) && (uid != p->cred->uid)) { + pcred = __task_cred(p); + if ((info == SEND_SIG_NOINFO || + (!is_si_special(info) && SI_FROMUSER(info))) && + euid != pcred->suid && euid != pcred->uid && + uid != pcred->suid && uid != pcred->uid) { ret = -EPERM; goto out_unlock; } @@ -1372,10 +1387,9 @@ int do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig) */ rcu_read_lock(); info.si_pid = task_pid_nr_ns(tsk, tsk->parent->nsproxy->pid_ns); + info.si_uid = __task_cred(tsk)->uid; rcu_read_unlock(); - info.si_uid = tsk->cred->uid; - thread_group_cputime(tsk, &cputime); info.si_utime = cputime_to_jiffies(cputime.utime); info.si_stime = cputime_to_jiffies(cputime.stime); @@ -1443,10 +1457,9 @@ static void do_notify_parent_cldstop(struct task_struct *tsk, int why) */ rcu_read_lock(); info.si_pid = task_pid_nr_ns(tsk, tsk->parent->nsproxy->pid_ns); + info.si_uid = __task_cred(tsk)->uid; rcu_read_unlock(); - info.si_uid = tsk->cred->uid; - info.si_utime = cputime_to_clock_t(tsk->utime); info.si_stime = cputime_to_clock_t(tsk->stime); @@ -1713,7 +1726,7 @@ static int ptrace_signal(int signr, siginfo_t *info, info->si_errno = 0; info->si_code = SI_USER; info->si_pid = task_pid_vnr(current->parent); - info->si_uid = current->parent->cred->uid; + info->si_uid = task_uid(current->parent); } /* If the (new) signal is now blocked, requeue it. */ -- cgit v1.2.3