[kernel-hardening] Re: [Security] [PATCH 2/2] taskstats: restrict access to user

[Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 09:40 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c
> index e19ce1454ee1..5874d4866b3c 100644
> --- a/kernel/taskstats.c
> +++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
> @@ -457,6 +457,8 @@ static int cmd_attr_register_cpumask(struct genl_info *info)
>  	cpumask_var_t mask;
>  	int rc;
>  
> +	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> +		return -EPERM;

Shouldn't it simply protect taskstats_user_cmd()?  You may still poll
the counters with TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PID/TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_TGID.

Or ptrace_may_access() in taskstats_user_cmd().

>  	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&mask, GFP_KERNEL))
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	rc = parse(info->attrs[TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_REGISTER_CPUMASK], mask);
> diff --git a/kernel/tsacct.c b/kernel/tsacct.c
> index 24dc60d9fa1f..110ca5a03bd6 100644
> --- a/kernel/tsacct.c
> +++ b/kernel/tsacct.c
> @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ void bacct_add_tsk(struct taskstats *stats, struct task_struct *tsk)
>  
>  #define KB 1024
>  #define MB (1024*KB)
> +#define KB_MASK (~(KB-1))
>  /*
>   * fill in extended accounting fields
>   */
> @@ -100,9 +101,9 @@ void xacct_add_tsk(struct taskstats *stats, struct task_struct *p)
>  	stats->read_syscalls	= p->ioac.syscr;
>  	stats->write_syscalls	= p->ioac.syscw;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
> -	stats->read_bytes	= p->ioac.read_bytes;
> -	stats->write_bytes	= p->ioac.write_bytes;
> -	stats->cancelled_write_bytes = p->ioac.cancelled_write_bytes;
> +	stats->read_bytes	= p->ioac.read_bytes & KB_MASK;
> +	stats->write_bytes	= p->ioac.write_bytes & KB_MASK;
> +	stats->cancelled_write_bytes = p->ioac.cancelled_write_bytes & KB_MASK;
>  #else
>  	stats->read_bytes	= 0;
>  	stats->write_bytes	= 0;


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Vasiliy Kulikov
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