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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
	Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"zhangyi (F)" <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 078/162] fs/proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in /proc/PID/stat
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:33:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191219183212.539842175@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191219183150.477687052@linuxfoundation.org>

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit 0a1eb2d474edfe75466be6b4677ad84e5e8ca3f5 upstream.

Reporting these fields on a non-current task is dangerous.  If the
task is in any state other than normal kernel code, they may contain
garbage or even kernel addresses on some architectures.  (x86_64
used to do this.  I bet lots of architectures still do.)  With
CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK=y, it can OOPS, too.

As far as I know, there are no use programs that make any material
use of these fields, so just get rid of them.

Reported-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a5fed4c3f4e33ed25d4bb03567e329bc5a712bcc.1475257877.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/proc/array.c |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -425,10 +425,11 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file
 	mm = get_task_mm(task);
 	if (mm) {
 		vsize = task_vsize(mm);
-		if (permitted) {
-			eip = KSTK_EIP(task);
-			esp = KSTK_ESP(task);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * esp and eip are intentionally zeroed out.  There is no
+		 * non-racy way to read them without freezing the task.
+		 * Programs that need reliable values can use ptrace(2).
+		 */
 	}
 
 	get_task_comm(tcomm, task);

       reply	other threads:[~2019-12-19 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2019-12-19 18:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-12-19 18:33 ` [PATCH 4.4 079/162] fs/proc: Report eip/esp in /prod/PID/stat for coredumping Greg Kroah-Hartman

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