From cefdca0a86be517bc390fc4541e3674b8e7803b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Xu Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 17:16:41 -0700 Subject: userfaultfd/sysctl: add vm.unprivileged_userfaultfd Userfaultfd can be misued to make it easier to exploit existing use-after-free (and similar) bugs that might otherwise only make a short window or race condition available. By using userfaultfd to stall a kernel thread, a malicious program can keep some state that it wrote, stable for an extended period, which it can then access using an existing exploit. While it doesn't cause the exploit itself, and while it's not the only thing that can stall a kernel thread when accessing a memory location, it's one of the few that never needs privilege. We can add a flag, allowing userfaultfd to be restricted, so that in general it won't be useable by arbitrary user programs, but in environments that require userfaultfd it can be turned back on. Add a global sysctl knob "vm.unprivileged_userfaultfd" to control whether userfaultfd is allowed by unprivileged users. When this is set to zero, only privileged users (root user, or users with the CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability) will be able to use the userfaultfd syscalls. Andrea said: : The only difference between the bpf sysctl and the userfaultfd sysctl : this way is that the bpf sysctl adds the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability : requirement, while userfaultfd adds the CAP_SYS_PTRACE requirement, : because the userfaultfd monitor is more likely to need CAP_SYS_PTRACE : already if it's doing other kind of tracking on processes runtime, in : addition of userfaultfd. In other words both syscalls works only for : root, when the two sysctl are opt-in set to 1. [dgilbert@redhat.com: changelog additions] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: documentation tweak, per Mike] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190319030722.12441-2-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Xu Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Maxime Coquelin Cc: Maya Gokhale Cc: Jerome Glisse Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Martin Cracauer Cc: Denis Plotnikov Cc: Marty McFadden Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h') diff --git a/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h b/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h index 37c9eba75c98..ac9d71e24b81 100644 --- a/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h +++ b/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ #define UFFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS (O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK) #define UFFD_FLAGS_SET (EFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS) +extern int sysctl_unprivileged_userfaultfd; + extern vm_fault_t handle_userfault(struct vm_fault *vmf, unsigned long reason); extern ssize_t mcopy_atomic(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, unsigned long dst_start, -- cgit