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author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2008-08-14 11:37:28 +0100 |
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committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2008-08-14 22:59:43 +1000 |
commit | 5cd9c58fbe9ec92b45b27e131719af4f2bd9eb40 (patch) | |
tree | 8573db001b4dc3c2ad97102dda42b841c40b5f6c /kernel | |
parent | 8d0968abd03ec6b407df117adc773562386702fa (diff) | |
download | lwn-5cd9c58fbe9ec92b45b27e131719af4f2bd9eb40.tar.gz lwn-5cd9c58fbe9ec92b45b27e131719af4f2bd9eb40.zip |
security: Fix setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable()
Fix the setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable() as it could corrupt the flags
the target process if that is not the current process and it is trying to
change its own flags in a different way at the same time.
__capable() is using neither atomic ops nor locking to protect t->flags. This
patch removes __capable() and introduces has_capability() that doesn't set
PF_SUPERPRIV on the process being queried.
This patch further splits security_ptrace() in two:
(1) security_ptrace_may_access(). This passes judgement on whether one
process may access another only (PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH for ptrace() and
PTRACE_MODE_READ for /proc), and takes a pointer to the child process.
current is the parent.
(2) security_ptrace_traceme(). This passes judgement on PTRACE_TRACEME only,
and takes only a pointer to the parent process. current is the child.
In Smack and commoncap, this uses has_capability() to determine whether
the parent will be permitted to use PTRACE_ATTACH if normal checks fail.
This does not set PF_SUPERPRIV.
Two of the instances of __capable() actually only act on current, and so have
been changed to calls to capable().
Of the places that were using __capable():
(1) The OOM killer calls __capable() thrice when weighing the killability of a
process. All of these now use has_capability().
(2) cap_ptrace() and smack_ptrace() were using __capable() to check to see
whether the parent was allowed to trace any process. As mentioned above,
these have been split. For PTRACE_ATTACH and /proc, capable() is now
used, and for PTRACE_TRACEME, has_capability() is used.
(3) cap_safe_nice() only ever saw current, so now uses capable().
(4) smack_setprocattr() rejected accesses to tasks other than current just
after calling __capable(), so the order of these two tests have been
switched and capable() is used instead.
(5) In smack_file_send_sigiotask(), we need to allow privileged processes to
receive SIGIO on files they're manipulating.
(6) In smack_task_wait(), we let a process wait for a privileged process,
whether or not the process doing the waiting is privileged.
I've tested this with the LTP SELinux and syscalls testscripts.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/capability.c | 21 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/ptrace.c | 5 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c index 0101e847603e..33e51e78c2d8 100644 --- a/kernel/capability.c +++ b/kernel/capability.c @@ -486,17 +486,22 @@ asmlinkage long sys_capset(cap_user_header_t header, const cap_user_data_t data) return ret; } -int __capable(struct task_struct *t, int cap) +/** + * capable - Determine if the current task has a superior capability in effect + * @cap: The capability to be tested for + * + * Return true if the current task has the given superior capability currently + * available for use, false if not. + * + * This sets PF_SUPERPRIV on the task if the capability is available on the + * assumption that it's about to be used. + */ +int capable(int cap) { - if (security_capable(t, cap) == 0) { - t->flags |= PF_SUPERPRIV; + if (has_capability(current, cap)) { + current->flags |= PF_SUPERPRIV; return 1; } return 0; } - -int capable(int cap) -{ - return __capable(current, cap); -} EXPORT_SYMBOL(capable); diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index 082b3fcb32a0..356699a96d56 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ int __ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode) if (!dumpable && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE)) return -EPERM; - return security_ptrace(current, task, mode); + return security_ptrace_may_access(task, mode); } bool ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode) @@ -499,8 +499,7 @@ repeat: goto repeat; } - ret = security_ptrace(current->parent, current, - PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH); + ret = security_ptrace_traceme(current->parent); /* * Set the ptrace bit in the process ptrace flags. |