[PATCH 4.12 37/41] Sanitize move_pages() permission checks - Greg Kroah-Hartman

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Otto Ebeling <otto.ebeling@iki.fi>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.12 37/41] Sanitize move_pages() permission checks
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:14:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170822190943.424596057@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170822190941.918296529@linuxfoundation.org>

4.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

commit 197e7e521384a23b9e585178f3f11c9fa08274b9 upstream.

The 'move_paghes()' system call was introduced long long ago with the
same permission checks as for sending a signal (except using
CAP_SYS_NICE instead of CAP_SYS_KILL for the overriding capability).

That turns out to not be a great choice - while the system call really
only moves physical page allocations around (and you need other
capabilities to do a lot of it), you can check the return value to map
out some the virtual address choices and defeat ASLR of a binary that
still shares your uid.

So change the access checks to the more common 'ptrace_may_access()'
model instead.

This tightens the access checks for the uid, and also effectively
changes the CAP_SYS_NICE check to CAP_SYS_PTRACE, but it's unlikely that
anybody really _uses_ this legacy system call any more (we hav ebetter
NUMA placement models these days), so I expect nobody to notice.

Famous last words.

Reported-by: Otto Ebeling <otto.ebeling@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/migrate.c |   13 ++++---------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 #include <linux/page_idle.h>
 #include <linux/page_owner.h>
 #include <linux/sched/mm.h>
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 
@@ -1649,7 +1650,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(move_pages, pid_t, pid,
 		const int __user *, nodes,
 		int __user *, status, int, flags)
 {
-	const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *tcred;
 	struct task_struct *task;
 	struct mm_struct *mm;
 	int err;
@@ -1673,14 +1673,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(move_pages, pid_t, pid,
 
 	/*
 	 * Check if this process has the right to modify the specified
-	 * process. The right exists if the process has administrative
-	 * capabilities, superuser privileges or the same
-	 * userid as the target process.
-	 */
-	tcred = __task_cred(task);
-	if (!uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->suid) && !uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->uid) &&
-	    !uid_eq(cred->uid,  tcred->suid) && !uid_eq(cred->uid,  tcred->uid) &&
-	    !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
+	 * process. Use the regular "ptrace_may_access()" checks.
+	 */
+	if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS)) {
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 		err = -EPERM;
 		goto out;
