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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Subject: [PATCH review 1/3] pidns: Outlaw thread creation after unshare(CLONE_NEWPID)
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:57:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877goaela9.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2y2elbi.fsf@xmission.com> (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:56:49 -0800")


The sequence:
unshare(CLONE_NEWPID)
clone(CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_VM)

Creates a new process in the new pid namespace without setting
pid_ns->child_reaper.  After forking this results in a NULL
pointer dereference.

Avoid this and other nonsense scenarios that can show up after
creating a new pid namespace with unshare by adding a new
check in copy_prodcess.

Pointed-out-by:  Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
 kernel/fork.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index a31b823..65ca6d2 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1166,6 +1166,14 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 				current->signal->flags & SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE)
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
+	/*
+	 * If the new process will be in a different pid namespace
+	 * don't allow the creation of threads.
+	 */
+	if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_VM|CLONE_NEWPID)) &&
+	    (task_active_pid_ns(current) != current->nsproxy->pid_ns))
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
 	retval = security_task_create(clone_flags);
 	if (retval)
 		goto fork_out;
-- 
1.7.5.4


  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-22  4:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-22  4:56 [PATCH review 0/3] pid namespaces fixes Eric W. Biederman
2012-12-22  4:57 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2012-12-22 19:39   ` [PATCH review 1/3] pidns: Outlaw thread creation after unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) Rob Landley
2012-12-22 20:16     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-12-22  4:58 ` [PATCH review 2/3] pidns: Stop pid allocation when init dies Eric W. Biederman
2012-12-22 16:54   ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-12-22 20:31     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-12-25  8:24     ` [PATCH review 2/3 take 2] " Eric W. Biederman
2012-12-25 16:59       ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-12-22  4:58 ` [PATCH review 3/3] proc: Allow proc_free_inum to be called from any context Eric W. Biederman

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