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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2006-06-26 00:25:59 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-26 09:58:26 -0700
commitdf26c40e567356caeefe2861311e19c54444d917 (patch)
tree415527677e85e8b612b916f6fda1645a6207d8e2 /kernel/ptrace.c
parent778c1144771f0064b6f51bee865cceb0d996f2f9 (diff)
[PATCH] proc: Cleanup proc_fd_access_allowed
In process of getting proc_fd_access_allowed to work it has developed a few warts. In particular the special case that always allows introspection and the special case to allow inspection of kernel threads. The special case for introspection is needed for /proc/self/mem. The special case for kernel threads really should be overridable by security modules. So consolidate these checks into ptrace.c:may_attach(). The check to always allow introspection is trivial. The check to allow access to kernel threads, and zombies is a little trickier. mem_read and mem_write already verify an mm exists so it isn't needed twice. proc_fd_access_allowed only doesn't want a check to verify task->mm exits, s it prevents all access to kernel threads. So just move the task->mm check into ptrace_attach where it is needed for practical reasons. I did a quick audit and none of the security modules in the kernel seem to care if they are passed a task without an mm into security_ptrace. So the above move should be safe and it allows security modules to come up with more restrictive policy. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/ptrace.c20
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 921c22ad16e..6252d2fa2bf 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -120,8 +120,18 @@ int ptrace_check_attach(struct task_struct *child, int kill)
static int may_attach(struct task_struct *task)
{
- if (!task->mm)
- return -EPERM;
+ /* May we inspect the given task?
+ * This check is used both for attaching with ptrace
+ * and for allowing access to sensitive information in /proc.
+ *
+ * ptrace_attach denies several cases that /proc allows
+ * because setting up the necessary parent/child relationship
+ * or halting the specified task is impossible.
+ */
+ int dumpable = 0;
+ /* Don't let security modules deny introspection */
+ if (task == current)
+ return 0;
if (((current->uid != task->euid) ||
(current->uid != task->suid) ||
(current->uid != task->uid) ||
@@ -130,7 +140,9 @@ static int may_attach(struct task_struct *task)
(current->gid != task->gid)) && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
return -EPERM;
smp_rmb();
- if (!task->mm->dumpable && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
+ if (task->mm)
+ dumpable = task->mm->dumpable;
+ if (!dumpable && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
return -EPERM;
return security_ptrace(current, task);
@@ -176,6 +188,8 @@ repeat:
goto repeat;
}
+ if (!task->mm)
+ goto bad;
/* the same process cannot be attached many times */
if (task->ptrace & PT_PTRACED)
goto bad;