From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:27:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090710012740.GA395@redhat.com> (raw)
The problem is minor, but without ->cred_guard_mutex held we can race
with exec() and get the new ->mm but check old creds.
Now we do not need to re-check task->mm after ptrace_may_access(), it
can't be changed to the new mm under us.
Strictly speaking, this also fixes another very minor problem. Unless
security check fails or the task exits mm_for_maps() should never
return NULL, the caller should get either old or new ->mm.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
fs/proc/base.c | 22 +++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
--- WAIT/fs/proc/base.c~2_CRED_MUTEX 2009-07-10 02:05:14.000000000 +0200
+++ WAIT/fs/proc/base.c 2009-07-10 03:23:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -234,19 +234,19 @@ static int check_mem_permission(struct t
struct mm_struct *mm_for_maps(struct task_struct *task)
{
- struct mm_struct *mm = get_task_mm(task);
+ struct mm_struct *mm;
- if (mm && mm != current->mm) {
- /*
- * task->mm can be changed before security check,
- * in that case we must notice the change after.
- */
- if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ) ||
- mm != task->mm) {
- mmput(mm);
- mm = NULL;
- }
+ if (mutex_lock_killable(&task->cred_guard_mutex))
+ return NULL;
+
+ mm = get_task_mm(task);
+ if (mm && mm != current->mm &&
+ !ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ)) {
+ mmput(mm);
+ mm = NULL;
}
+ mutex_unlock(&task->cred_guard_mutex);
+
return mm;
}
next reply other threads:[~2009-07-10 1:31 UTC|newest]
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2009-07-10 1:27 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-07-10 3:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec Serge E. Hallyn
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