Re: Regression when writing to /proc/<pid>/attr/

[Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 05:02:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 4:38 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'm assuming the issue is the latter (open, drop privs, write). And
> > I assume fsuid/fsgid has changed? (i.e. cred_fscmp() couldn't be used
> > either?)
> 
> Hmm. Do we have some place to hide self_exec_id at open time, and then
> just verify that it's still the same at IO time?
> 
> IOW, replace that f_cred comparison with a "self_exec_id has not
> changed" comparison instead?

I think we can't use self_exec_id because the original flaw could just
be changed to have the parent open two children (the fd opener and the
victim), which would have the same self_exec_id.

> Perhaps squirrel it away in file->f_private? Or are we already using
> that (didn't check)?

But we can do tracking via file->private_data since the attr files don't
use a custom opener. I think an mm_struct comparison is likely what's
needed here? (This is actually what several of these special proc files
are already doing, but they actually _use_ mm_struct.)

UNTESTED:


diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 58bbf334265b..7118ebe38fa6 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -2674,6 +2674,11 @@ static int proc_pident_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx,
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
+static int proc_pid_attr_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
+{
+	return __mem_open(inode, file, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS);
+}
+
 static ssize_t proc_pid_attr_read(struct file * file, char __user * buf,
 				  size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 {
@@ -2704,7 +2709,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_attr_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buf,
 	int rv;
 
 	/* A task may only write when it was the opener. */
-	if (file->f_cred != current_real_cred())
+	if (file->private_data != current->mm)
 		return -EPERM;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
@@ -2754,9 +2759,11 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_attr_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buf,
 }
 
 static const struct file_operations proc_pid_attr_operations = {
+	.open		= proc_pid_attr_open,
 	.read		= proc_pid_attr_read,
 	.write		= proc_pid_attr_write,
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
+	.release	= mem_release,
 };
 
 #define LSM_DIR_OPS(LSM) \

-- 
Kees Cook