From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Qi Tang <tpluszz77@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prctl: require checkpoint_restore_ns_capable for PR_SET_MM_MAP
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 15:13:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac5ra3EArU31ZKI9@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac5nzyCMJSkwuhRh@redhat.com>
Note also the comment above validate_prctl_map_addr() called by
prctl_set_mm_map(), "we don't require any capability here ...".
Oleg.
On 04/02, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 04/02, Qi Tang wrote:
> >
> > The original commit f606b77f1a9e ("prctl: PR_SET_MM -- introduce
> > PR_SET_MM_MAP operation") states "we require the caller to be at least
> > user-namespace root user", but this was never enforced in the code.
> >
> > Add a checkpoint_restore_ns_capable() check at the top of
> > prctl_set_mm_map(), after the PR_SET_MM_MAP_SIZE early return. This
> > requires CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE or CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the caller's
> > user namespace, matching the stated design intent and the existing
> > check for exe_fd changes.
>
> Can't really comment... but if you add this check at the start, then you
> should also remove the same checkpoint_restore_ns_capable() check below?
> In the "if (prctl_map.exe_fd != (u32)-1)" block.
>
> Oleg.
>
>
> > Fixes: f606b77f1a9e ("prctl: PR_SET_MM -- introduce PR_SET_MM_MAP operation")
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Qi Tang <tpluszz77@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > kernel/sys.c | 3 +++
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
> > index c86eba9aa7e9..2b8c57f23a35 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sys.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sys.c
> > @@ -2071,6 +2071,9 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, const void __user *addr, unsigned long data
> > return put_user((unsigned int)sizeof(prctl_map),
> > (unsigned int __user *)addr);
> >
> > + if (!checkpoint_restore_ns_capable(current_user_ns()))
> > + return -EPERM;
> > +
> > if (data_size != sizeof(prctl_map))
> > return -EINVAL;
> >
> > --
> > 2.43.0
> >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-02 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-02 11:13 [PATCH] prctl: require checkpoint_restore_ns_capable for PR_SET_MM_MAP Qi Tang
2026-04-02 12:57 ` Oleg Nesterov
2026-04-02 13:07 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-04-02 13:13 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2026-04-02 13:41 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-02 13:06 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-04-02 13:55 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-02 14:05 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-02 14:21 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-04-02 14:27 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-02 17:46 ` Andrei Vagin
2026-04-02 13:30 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-02 17:47 ` Andrew Morton
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