From 42a0cc3478584d4d63f68f2f5af021ddbea771fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jann Horn Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:34:10 +0200 Subject: sys: don't hold uts_sem while accessing userspace memory Holding uts_sem as a writer while accessing userspace memory allows a namespace admin to stall all processes that attempt to take uts_sem. Instead, move data through stack buffers and don't access userspace memory while uts_sem is held. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman --- kernel/utsname_sysctl.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/utsname_sysctl.c') diff --git a/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c b/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c index 233cd8fc6910..258033d62cb3 100644 --- a/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL -static void *get_uts(struct ctl_table *table, int write) +static void *get_uts(struct ctl_table *table) { char *which = table->data; struct uts_namespace *uts_ns; @@ -26,21 +26,9 @@ static void *get_uts(struct ctl_table *table, int write) uts_ns = current->nsproxy->uts_ns; which = (which - (char *)&init_uts_ns) + (char *)uts_ns; - if (!write) - down_read(&uts_sem); - else - down_write(&uts_sem); return which; } -static void put_uts(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *which) -{ - if (!write) - up_read(&uts_sem); - else - up_write(&uts_sem); -} - /* * Special case of dostring for the UTS structure. This has locks * to observe. Should this be in kernel/sys.c ???? @@ -50,13 +38,34 @@ static int proc_do_uts_string(struct ctl_table *table, int write, { struct ctl_table uts_table; int r; + char tmp_data[__NEW_UTS_LEN + 1]; + memcpy(&uts_table, table, sizeof(uts_table)); - uts_table.data = get_uts(table, write); + uts_table.data = tmp_data; + + /* + * Buffer the value in tmp_data so that proc_dostring() can be called + * without holding any locks. + * We also need to read the original value in the write==1 case to + * support partial writes. + */ + down_read(&uts_sem); + memcpy(tmp_data, get_uts(table), sizeof(tmp_data)); + up_read(&uts_sem); r = proc_dostring(&uts_table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); - put_uts(table, write, uts_table.data); - if (write) + if (write) { + /* + * Write back the new value. + * Note that, since we dropped uts_sem, the result can + * theoretically be incorrect if there are two parallel writes + * at non-zero offsets to the same sysctl. + */ + down_write(&uts_sem); + memcpy(get_uts(table), tmp_data, sizeof(tmp_data)); + up_write(&uts_sem); proc_sys_poll_notify(table->poll); + } return r; } -- cgit v1.2.3