Patch "perf/core: Fix perf_event_open() vs. execve() race" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf/core: Fix perf_event_open() vs. execve() race

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     perf-core-fix-perf_event_open-vs.-execve-race.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 79c9ce57eb2d5f1497546a3946b4ae21b6fdc438 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:36:53 +0200
Subject: perf/core: Fix perf_event_open() vs. execve() race

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

commit 79c9ce57eb2d5f1497546a3946b4ae21b6fdc438 upstream.

Jann reported that the ptrace_may_access() check in
find_lively_task_by_vpid() is racy against exec().

Specifically:

  perf_event_open()		execve()

  ptrace_may_access()
				commit_creds()
  ...				if (get_dumpable() != SUID_DUMP_USER)
				  perf_event_exit_task();
  perf_install_in_context()

would result in installing a counter across the creds boundary.

Fix this by wrapping lots of perf_event_open() in cred_guard_mutex.
This should be fine as perf_event_exit_task() is already called with
cred_guard_mutex held, so all perf locks already nest inside it.

Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/events/core.c |   52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -946,6 +946,7 @@ static void put_ctx(struct perf_event_co
  * function.
  *
  * Lock order:
+ *    cred_guard_mutex
  *	task_struct::perf_event_mutex
  *	  perf_event_context::mutex
  *	    perf_event_context::lock
@@ -3418,7 +3419,6 @@ static struct task_struct *
 find_lively_task_by_vpid(pid_t vpid)
 {
 	struct task_struct *task;
-	int err;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	if (!vpid)
@@ -3432,16 +3432,7 @@ find_lively_task_by_vpid(pid_t vpid)
 	if (!task)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH);
 
-	/* Reuse ptrace permission checks for now. */
-	err = -EACCES;
-	if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS))
-		goto errout;
-
 	return task;
-errout:
-	put_task_struct(task);
-	return ERR_PTR(err);
-
 }
 
 /*
@@ -8328,6 +8319,24 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 
 	get_online_cpus();
 
+	if (task) {
+		err = mutex_lock_interruptible(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
+		if (err)
+			goto err_cpus;
+
+		/*
+		 * Reuse ptrace permission checks for now.
+		 *
+		 * We must hold cred_guard_mutex across this and any potential
+		 * perf_install_in_context() call for this new event to
+		 * serialize against exec() altering our credentials (and the
+		 * perf_event_exit_task() that could imply).
+		 */
+		err = -EACCES;
+		if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS))
+			goto err_cred;
+	}
+
 	if (flags & PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP)
 		cgroup_fd = pid;
 
@@ -8335,7 +8344,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 				 NULL, NULL, cgroup_fd);
 	if (IS_ERR(event)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(event);
-		goto err_cpus;
+		goto err_cred;
 	}
 
 	if (is_sampling_event(event)) {
@@ -8394,11 +8403,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 		goto err_context;
 	}
 
-	if (task) {
-		put_task_struct(task);
-		task = NULL;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * Look up the group leader (we will attach this event to it):
 	 */
@@ -8486,6 +8490,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->parent_ctx);
 
+	/*
+	 * This is the point on no return; we cannot fail hereafter. This is
+	 * where we start modifying current state.
+	 */
+
 	if (move_group) {
 		/*
 		 * See perf_event_ctx_lock() for comments on the details
@@ -8555,6 +8564,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 		mutex_unlock(&gctx->mutex);
 	mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);
 
+	if (task) {
+		mutex_unlock(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
+		put_task_struct(task);
+	}
+
 	put_online_cpus();
 
 	event->owner = current;
@@ -8589,6 +8603,9 @@ err_alloc:
 	 */
 	if (!event_file)
 		free_event(event);
+err_cred:
+	if (task)
+		mutex_unlock(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
 err_cpus:
 	put_online_cpus();
 err_task:
@@ -8868,6 +8885,9 @@ static void perf_event_exit_task_context
 
 /*
  * When a child task exits, feed back event values to parent events.
+ *
+ * Can be called with cred_guard_mutex held when called from
+ * install_exec_creds().
  */
 void perf_event_exit_task(struct task_struct *child)
 {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peterz@infradead.org are

queue-4.4/perf-x86-intel-pt-generate-pmi-in-the-stop-region-as-well.patch
queue-4.4/perf-core-fix-perf_event_open-vs.-execve-race.patch