Patch "pidns: disable pid allocation if pid_ns_prepare_proc() is failed in alloc_pid()" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    pidns: disable pid allocation if pid_ns_prepare_proc() is failed in alloc_pid()

to the 3.18-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:
     pidns-disable-pid-allocation-if-pid_ns_prepare_proc-is-failed-in-alloc_pid.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 foo@baz Tue Apr 10 13:58:07 CEST 2018
From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 15:56:34 -0700
Subject: pidns: disable pid allocation if pid_ns_prepare_proc() is failed in alloc_pid()

From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>


[ Upstream commit 8896c23d2ef803f1883fea73117a435925c2b4c4 ]

alloc_pidmap() advances pid_namespace::last_pid.  When first pid
allocation fails, then next created process will have pid 2 and
pid_ns_prepare_proc() won't be called.  So, pid_namespace::proc_mnt will
never be initialized (not to mention that there won't be a child
reaper).

I saw crash stack of such case on kernel 3.10:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
    IP: proc_flush_task+0x8f/0x1b0
    Call Trace:
        release_task+0x3f/0x490
        wait_consider_task.part.10+0x7ff/0xb00
        do_wait+0x11f/0x280
        SyS_wait4+0x7d/0x110

We may fix this by restore of last_pid in 0 or by prohibiting of futher
allocations.  Since there was a similar issue in Oleg Nesterov's commit
314a8ad0f18a ("pidns: fix free_pid() to handle the first fork failure").
and it was fixed via prohibiting allocation, let's follow this way, and
do the same.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149201021004.4863.6762095011554287922.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/pid.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -316,8 +316,10 @@ struct pid *alloc_pid(struct pid_namespa
 	}
 
 	if (unlikely(is_child_reaper(pid))) {
-		if (pid_ns_prepare_proc(ns))
+		if (pid_ns_prepare_proc(ns)) {
+			disable_pid_allocation(ns);
 			goto out_free;
+		}
 	}
 
 	get_pid_ns(ns);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ktkhai@virtuozzo.com are

queue-3.18/pidns-disable-pid-allocation-if-pid_ns_prepare_proc-is-failed-in-alloc_pid.patch