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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2017-05-22 15:40:12 -0500
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2017-05-23 07:40:44 -0500
commitc70d9d809fdeecedb96972457ee45c49a232d97f (patch)
treed814992a6f46fdc1b9faac491aaa30744cb2ed57 /kernel/ptrace.c
parent3fd37226216620c1a468afa999739d5016fbc349 (diff)
ptrace: Properly initialize ptracer_cred on fork
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. Tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Fixes: 64b875f7ac8a ("ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/ptrace.c20
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 266ddcc1d8bb..60f356d91060 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -60,19 +60,25 @@ int ptrace_access_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr,
}
+void __ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child, struct task_struct *new_parent,
+ const struct cred *ptracer_cred)
+{
+ BUG_ON(!list_empty(&child->ptrace_entry));
+ list_add(&child->ptrace_entry, &new_parent->ptraced);
+ child->parent = new_parent;
+ child->ptracer_cred = get_cred(ptracer_cred);
+}
+
/*
* ptrace a task: make the debugger its new parent and
* move it to the ptrace list.
*
* Must be called with the tasklist lock write-held.
*/
-void __ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child, struct task_struct *new_parent)
+static void ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child, struct task_struct *new_parent)
{
- BUG_ON(!list_empty(&child->ptrace_entry));
- list_add(&child->ptrace_entry, &new_parent->ptraced);
- child->parent = new_parent;
rcu_read_lock();
- child->ptracer_cred = get_cred(__task_cred(new_parent));
+ __ptrace_link(child, new_parent, __task_cred(new_parent));
rcu_read_unlock();
}
@@ -386,7 +392,7 @@ static int ptrace_attach(struct task_struct *task, long request,
flags |= PT_SEIZED;
task->ptrace = flags;
- __ptrace_link(task, current);
+ ptrace_link(task, current);
/* SEIZE doesn't trap tracee on attach */
if (!seize)
@@ -459,7 +465,7 @@ static int ptrace_traceme(void)
*/
if (!ret && !(current->real_parent->flags & PF_EXITING)) {
current->ptrace = PT_PTRACED;
- __ptrace_link(current, current->real_parent);
+ ptrace_link(current, current->real_parent);
}
}
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);