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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>,
	Dan Ballard <dan@mindstab.net>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] sysctl: control functionality of /proc/pid/mem
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:43:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120121084317.GA30541@www.outflux.net> (raw)

Add the "proc_pid_mem" sysctl to control whether or not /proc/pid/mem is
allowed to work: 0: disabled, 1: read only, 2: read/write.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt |   14 ++++++++++++++
 fs/proc/base.c                  |   11 +++++++++++
 kernel/sysctl.c                 |   14 ++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 8c20fbd..6d52dba 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
 - printk_delay
 - printk_ratelimit
 - printk_ratelimit_burst
+- proc_pid_mem
 - randomize_va_space
 - real-root-dev               ==> Documentation/initrd.txt
 - reboot-cmd                  [ SPARC only ]
@@ -477,6 +478,19 @@ send before ratelimiting kicks in.
 
 ==============================================================
 
+proc_pid_mem:
+
+This option can be used to select the level of access given to potential
+ptracers when using the per-process "mem" file in /proc/pid/mem.
+
+0 - Disable entirely.
+
+1 - Allow potential ptracers read access to process memory, but not writes.
+
+2 - Allow potential ptracers read and write access to process memory.
+
+==============================================================
+
 randomize_va_space:
 
 This option can be used to select the type of process address
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 9cde9ed..35f4651 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ struct pid_entry {
 	union proc_op op;
 };
 
+int sysctl_proc_pid_mem = 2;
+
 #define NOD(NAME, MODE, IOP, FOP, OP) {			\
 	.name = (NAME),					\
 	.len  = sizeof(NAME) - 1,			\
@@ -702,6 +704,9 @@ static int mem_open(struct inode* inode, struct file* file)
 	struct task_struct *task = get_proc_task(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode);
 	struct mm_struct *mm;
 
+	if (sysctl_proc_pid_mem < 1)
+		return -EACCES;
+
 	if (!task)
 		return -ESRCH;
 
@@ -726,6 +731,9 @@ static ssize_t mem_read(struct file * file, char __user * buf,
 	unsigned long src = *ppos;
 	struct mm_struct *mm = file->private_data;
 
+	if (sysctl_proc_pid_mem < 1)
+		return -EACCES;
+
 	if (!mm)
 		return 0;
 
@@ -770,6 +778,9 @@ static ssize_t mem_write(struct file * file, const char __user *buf,
 	unsigned long dst = *ppos;
 	struct mm_struct *mm = file->private_data;
 
+	if (sysctl_proc_pid_mem < 2)
+		return -EACCES;
+
 	if (!mm)
 		return 0;
 
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index f487f25..dda911f 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ extern int sysctl_nr_trim_pages;
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
 extern int blk_iopoll_enabled;
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
+extern int sysctl_proc_pid_mem;
+#endif
 
 /* Constants used for minimum and  maximum */
 #ifdef CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR
@@ -1004,6 +1007,17 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
 	},
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
+	{
+		.procname	= "proc_pid_mem",
+		.data		= &sysctl_proc_pid_mem,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
+		.extra1		= &zero,
+		.extra2		= &two,
+	},
+#endif
 	{ }
 };
 
-- 
1.7.0.4


             reply	other threads:[~2012-01-21  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-21  8:43 Kees Cook [this message]
2012-01-21  9:03 ` [PATCH] sysctl: control functionality of /proc/pid/mem Ingo Molnar
2012-01-21  9:11   ` Kees Cook

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