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 3/4] mm/mempolicy: kernel_migrate_pages: check ptrace_may_access() after nodes_and()
Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 18:58:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ahMuJYliz1ioWpt4@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ahMt6xyUNnacZU8-@redhat.com>
Move the ptrace_may_access() check down, after the nodemask validation.
This is just a preparation to simplify the next patch.
Note that because of this reordering, if the caller passes an invalid
nodemask and also lacks permissions, the syscall will now return -EINVAL
instead of -EPERM. Hopefully, nobody relies on the old error precedence.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 2ec14001e4dc..c09ff9f9aa96 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1889,17 +1889,6 @@ static int kernel_migrate_pages(pid_t pid, unsigned long maxnode,
goto out;
}
- err = -EINVAL;
-
- /*
- * 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;
- }
-
task_nodes = cpuset_mems_allowed(task);
/* Is the user allowed to access the target nodes? */
if (!nodes_subset(*new, task_nodes) && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
@@ -1908,8 +1897,19 @@ static int kernel_migrate_pages(pid_t pid, unsigned long maxnode,
}
task_nodes = cpuset_mems_allowed(current);
- if (!nodes_and(*new, *new, task_nodes))
+ if (!nodes_and(*new, *new, task_nodes)) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
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;
+ }
err = security_task_movememory(task);
if (err)
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-24 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ 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
2026-05-24 16:58 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm/mempolicy: kernel_migrate_pages: use find_get_task_by_vpid() Oleg Nesterov
2026-05-24 16:58 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2026-05-24 16:58 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm/mempolicy: kernel_migrate_pages: fix race between security checks and suid exec Oleg Nesterov
2026-05-24 19:29 ` [PATCH 0/4] " Oleg Nesterov
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