From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>,
Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>,
Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>,
Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>,
Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] mm/mempolicy: kernel_migrate_pages: fix race between security checks and suid exec
Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 18:58:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ahMuLN2Foxpgx8ZM@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ahMt6xyUNnacZU8-@redhat.com>
The target task can execute a setuid binary between ptrace_may_access()
and get_task_mm(). Protect this critical section with exec_update_lock.
Sadly, we don't have DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1_COND(rwsem_read, _kill) yet.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 13 ++++++++++---
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index c09ff9f9aa96..cbb45a876a93 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1902,24 +1902,31 @@ static int kernel_migrate_pages(pid_t pid, unsigned long maxnode,
goto out_put;
}
+ err = down_read_killable(&task->signal->exec_update_lock);
+ if (err)
+ goto out_put;
/*
* Check if this process has the right to modify the specified process.
* Use the regular "ptrace_may_access()" checks.
*/
if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS)) {
err = -EPERM;
- goto out_put;
+ goto unlock;
}
err = security_task_movememory(task);
if (err)
- goto out_put;
+ goto unlock;
mm = get_task_mm(task);
if (!mm) {
err = -EINVAL;
- goto out_put;
+ goto unlock;
}
+unlock:
+ up_read(&task->signal->exec_update_lock);
+ if (err)
+ goto out_put;
err = do_migrate_pages(mm, old, new,
capable(CAP_SYS_NICE) ? MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL : MPOL_MF_MOVE);
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-24 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-24 16:57 [PATCH 0/4] mm/mempolicy: kernel_migrate_pages: fix race between security checks and suid exec Oleg Nesterov
2026-05-24 16:57 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm/mempolicy: kernel_migrate_pages: simplify the usage of put_task_struct() Oleg Nesterov
2026-05-25 2:18 ` Gregory Price
2026-05-25 2:20 ` Gregory Price
2026-05-25 8:27 ` Oleg Nesterov
2026-05-26 15:22 ` Gregory Price
2026-05-24 16:58 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm/mempolicy: kernel_migrate_pages: use find_get_task_by_vpid() Oleg Nesterov
2026-05-24 16:58 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm/mempolicy: kernel_migrate_pages: check ptrace_may_access() after nodes_and() Oleg Nesterov
2026-05-24 16:58 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2026-05-24 19:29 ` [PATCH 0/4] mm/mempolicy: kernel_migrate_pages: fix race between security checks and suid exec Oleg Nesterov
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