From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
syzbot <syzbot+a9ac39bf55329e206219@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-security-module <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: yama: unsafe usage of ptrace_relation->tracer
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 18:40:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190116174003.GB20060@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0fc3493d-a50e-f386-20a8-28d348c19544@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
On 01/10, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>
> syzbot is hitting this problem as of linux-next-20190110.
> When a patch will be proposed?
Well. I have already suggested the patch below several times. It won't fix all
problems in this code (I forgot the details but iirc ptracer_exception_found()
is broken too, task_is_descendant() should be cleanuped, may be something else),
but probably this trivial fix makes sense for the start?
Oleg.
--- x/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
+++ x/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
@@ -368,7 +368,8 @@ static int yama_ptrace_access_check(stru
break;
case YAMA_SCOPE_RELATIONAL:
rcu_read_lock();
- if (!task_is_descendant(current, child) &&
+ if (!pid_alive(child) ||
+ !task_is_descendant(current, child) &&
!ptracer_exception_found(current, child) &&
!ns_capable(__task_cred(child)->user_ns, CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
rc = -EPERM;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-16 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-21 7:10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in task_is_descendant syzbot
2018-10-21 7:12 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-22 9:54 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-10-22 10:06 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-22 13:46 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-10-25 2:15 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-25 11:13 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-10-25 11:36 ` Kees Cook
2018-10-25 12:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-10-25 11:47 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-25 12:17 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-10-25 13:01 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-10-26 16:09 ` Kees Cook
2018-10-29 12:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-10-29 15:05 ` yama: unsafe usage of ptrace_relation->tracer Oleg Nesterov
2019-01-10 11:05 ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-01-10 18:47 ` Kees Cook
2019-01-16 17:40 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2018-10-25 13:14 ` KASAN: use-after-free Read in task_is_descendant Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-25 15:55 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-10-25 16:25 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-10-26 12:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-26 13:04 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-10-26 13:51 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-26 14:39 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-10-26 15:04 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-10-26 15:22 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-10-25 8:19 ` Kees Cook
2018-10-25 11:52 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-10 3:25 ` syzbot
2018-11-10 11:46 ` syzbot
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