Re: [PATCH 1/1] userfaultfd: require CAP_SYS_PTRACE for UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK

From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>,
	Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>,
	Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com>, Nosh Minwalla <nosh@google.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <ovzxemul@gmail.com>,
	Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] userfaultfd: require CAP_SYS_PTRACE for UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 10:37:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191105153735.GF30717@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1572967777-8812-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com>

Hello Mike,

On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 05:29:37PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Current implementation of UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK modifies the file
> descriptor table from the read() implementation of uffd, which may have
> security implications for unprivileged use of the userfaultfd.
> 
> Limit availability of UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK only for callers that have
> CAP_SYS_PTRACE.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  fs/userfaultfd.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c
> index f9fd18670e22..d99d166fd892 100644
> --- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
> +++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
> @@ -1834,13 +1834,12 @@ static int userfaultfd_api(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
>  	if (copy_from_user(&uffdio_api, buf, sizeof(uffdio_api)))
>  		goto out;
>  	features = uffdio_api.features;
> -	if (uffdio_api.api != UFFD_API || (features & ~UFFD_API_FEATURES)) {
> -		memset(&uffdio_api, 0, sizeof(uffdio_api));
> -		if (copy_to_user(buf, &uffdio_api, sizeof(uffdio_api)))
> -			goto out;
> -		ret = -EINVAL;
> -		goto out;
> -	}
> +	ret = -EINVAL;
> +	if (uffdio_api.api != UFFD_API || (features & ~UFFD_API_FEATURES))
> +		goto err_out;
> +	ret = -EPERM;
> +	if ((features & UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK) && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
> +		goto err_out;
>  	/* report all available features and ioctls to userland */
>  	uffdio_api.features = UFFD_API_FEATURES;
>  	uffdio_api.ioctls = UFFD_API_IOCTLS;
> @@ -1853,6 +1852,11 @@ static int userfaultfd_api(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
>  	ret = 0;
>  out:
>  	return ret;
> +err_out:
> +	memset(&uffdio_api, 0, sizeof(uffdio_api));
> +	if (copy_to_user(buf, &uffdio_api, sizeof(uffdio_api)))
> +		ret = -EFAULT;
> +	goto out;
>  }
>  
>  static long userfaultfd_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd,

Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>

Thanks,
Andrea