From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934324AbdEWJQg (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2017 05:16:36 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:44109 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933573AbdEWJQc (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2017 05:16:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 11:16:30 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [CFT][PATCH] ptrace: Properly initialize ptracer_cred on fork In-Reply-To: References: <87r2zgtzbi.fsf@xmission.com> <877f18txfz.fsf_-_@xmission.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL/10.8 Emacs/25.2 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 23 May 2017 07:47:32 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > On Mon, 22 May 2017 23:04:48 +0200, > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > > > > When I introduced ptracer_cred I failed to consider the weirdness of > > fork where the task_struct copies the old value by default. This > > winds up leaving ptracer_cred set even when a process forks and > > the child process does not wind up being ptraced. > > > > Because ptracer_cred is not set on non-ptraced processes whose > > parents were ptraced this has broken the ability of the enlightenment > > window manager to start setuid children. > > > > Fix this by properly initializing ptracer_cred in ptrace_init_task > > > > This must be done with a little bit of care to preserve the current value > > of ptracer_cred when ptrace carries through fork. Re-reading the > > ptracer_cred from the ptracing process at this point is inconsistent > > with how PT_PTRACE_CAP has been maintained all of these years. > > > > Fixes: 64b875f7ac8a ("ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP") > > Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" > > --- > > > > If I could get some folks to test and verify this fixes the > > enlightenment issue I would really appreciate it. > > This seems giving a compile warning and it becomes error in the > following: > > In file included from ./include/linux/mutex.h:13:0, > from ./include/linux/kernfs.h:13, > from ./include/linux/sysfs.h:15, > from ./include/linux/kobject.h:21, > from ./include/linux/device.h:17, > from drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c:32: > ./include/linux/ptrace.h: In function ‘ptrace_init_task’: > ./arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:17:17: error: passing argument 3 of ‘__ptrace_link’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers] > #define current get_current() > ^ > ./include/linux/ptrace.h:210:41: note: in expansion of macro ‘current’ > __ptrace_link(child, current->parent, current->ptracer_cred); > ^~~~~~~ > In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h:10:0, > from ./arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h:246, > from ./include/linux/perf_event.h:24, > from ./arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h:24, > from ./include/linux/kvm_host.h:37, > from drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c:41: > ./include/linux/ptrace.h:56:13: note: expected ‘struct cred *’ but argument is of type ‘const struct cred *’ > extern void __ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child, > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ > cc1: all warnings being treated as errors Through a quick test on VM (fixed patch by adding const to __ptrace_link() argument), it seems working fine. Tested-by: Takashi Iwai thanks, Takashi