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2018-03-19module/retpoline: Warn about missing retpoline in moduleAndi Kleen1-0/+11
commit caf7501a1b4ec964190f31f9c3f163de252273b8 upstream. There's a risk that a kernel which has full retpoline mitigations becomes vulnerable when a module gets loaded that hasn't been compiled with the right compiler or the right option. To enable detection of that mismatch at module load time, add a module info string "retpoline" at build time when the module was compiled with retpoline support. This only covers compiled C source, but assembler source or prebuilt object files are not checked. If a retpoline enabled kernel detects a non retpoline protected module at load time, print a warning and report it in the sysfs vulnerability file. [ tglx: Massaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: jeyu@kernel.org Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180125235028.31211-1-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-03-19kprobes/x86: Blacklist indirect thunk functions for kprobesMasami Hiramatsu1-1/+9
commit c1804a236894ecc942da7dc6c5abe209e56cba93 upstream. Mark __x86_indirect_thunk_* functions as blacklist for kprobes because those functions can be called from anywhere in the kernel including blacklist functions of kprobes. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151629209111.10241.5444852823378068683.stgit@devbox [bwh: Backported to 3.2: We don't have _ASM_NOKPROBE etc., so add indirect thunks to the built-in blacklist] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-03-19gcov: add support for GCC 4.9Yuan Pengfei2-0/+11
commit a992bf836f9c3039a16f4bd068d161c86c6c3e2c upstream. This patch handles the gcov-related changes in GCC 4.9: A new counter (time profile) is added. The total number is 9 now. A new profile merge function __gcov_merge_time_profile is added. See gcc/gcov-io.h and libgcc/libgcov-merge.c For the first change, the layout of struct gcov_info is affected. For the second one, a dummy function is added to kernel/gcov/base.c similarly. Signed-off-by: Yuan Pengfei <coolypf@qq.com> Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-03-19gcov: compile specific gcov implementation based on gcc versionFrantisek Hrbata2-1/+61
commit 17c568d60af5a810208baf116dc174a2005c6c3e upstream. Compile the correct gcov implementation file for the specific gcc version. Signed-off-by: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Andy Gospodarek <agospoda@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-03-19gcov: add support for gcc 4.7 gcov formatFrantisek Hrbata2-0/+566
commit 5f41ea0386a53414d688cfcaa321a78310e5f7c1 upstream. The gcov in-memory format changed in gcc 4.7. The biggest change, which requires this special implementation, is that gcov_info no longer contains array of counters for each counter type for all functions and gcov_fn_info is not used for mapping of function's counters to these arrays(offset). Now each gcov_fn_info contans it's counters, which makes things a little bit easier. This is heavily based on the previous gcc_3_4.c implementation and patches provided by Peter Oberparleiter. Specially the buffer gcda implementation for iterator. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use kmemdup() and kcalloc()] [oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com: gcc_4_7.c needs vmalloc.h] Signed-off-by: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Andy Gospodarek <agospoda@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-03-19gcov: move gcov structs definitions to a gcc version specific fileFrantisek Hrbata4-80/+153
commit 8cbce376e3fdf4a21f59365aefbb52eac3c2e312 upstream. Since also the gcov structures(gcov_info, gcov_fn_info, gcov_ctr_info) can change between gcc releases, as shown in gcc 4.7, they cannot be defined in a common header and need to be moved to a specific gcc implemention file. This also requires to make the gcov_info structure opaque for the common code and to introduce simple helpers for accessing data inside gcov_info. Signed-off-by: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Andy Gospodarek <agospoda@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-03-03hrtimer: Reset hrtimer cpu base proper on CPU hotplugThomas Gleixner1-0/+2
commit d5421ea43d30701e03cadc56a38854c36a8b4433 upstream. The hrtimer interrupt code contains a hang detection and mitigation mechanism, which prevents that a long delayed hrtimer interrupt causes a continous retriggering of interrupts which prevent the system from making progress. If a hang is detected then the timer hardware is programmed with a certain delay into the future and a flag is set in the hrtimer cpu base which prevents newly enqueued timers from reprogramming the timer hardware prior to the chosen delay. The subsequent hrtimer interrupt after the delay clears the flag and resumes normal operation. If such a hang happens in the last hrtimer interrupt before a CPU is unplugged then the hang_detected flag is set and stays that way when the CPU is plugged in again. At that point the timer hardware is not armed and it cannot be armed because the hang_detected flag is still active, so nothing clears that flag. As a consequence the CPU does not receive hrtimer interrupts and no timers expire on that CPU which results in RCU stalls and other malfunctions. Clear the flag along with some other less critical members of the hrtimer cpu base to ensure starting from a clean state when a CPU is plugged in. Thanks to Paul, Sebastian and Anna-Maria for their help to get down to the root cause of that hard to reproduce heisenbug. Once understood it's trivial and certainly justifies a brown paperbag. Fixes: 41d2e4949377 ("hrtimer: Tune hrtimer_interrupt hang logic") Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sebastian Sewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801261447590.2067@nanos [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - There's no next_timer field to reset - Adjust filename, context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-03-03futex: Prevent overflow by strengthen input validationLi Jinyue1-0/+3
commit fbe0e839d1e22d88810f3ee3e2f1479be4c0aa4a upstream. UBSAN reports signed integer overflow in kernel/futex.c: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in kernel/futex.c:2041:18 signed integer overflow: 0 - -2147483648 cannot be represented in type 'int' Add a sanity check to catch negative values of nr_wake and nr_requeue. Signed-off-by: Li Jinyue <lijinyue@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: dvhart@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1513242294-31786-1-git-send-email-lijinyue@huawei.com [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-03-03ring-buffer: Mask out the info bits when returning buffer page lengthSteven Rostedt (VMware)1-1/+5
commit 45d8b80c2ac5d21cd1e2954431fb676bc2b1e099 upstream. Two info bits were added to the "commit" part of the ring buffer data page when returned to be consumed. This was to inform the user space readers that events have been missed, and that the count may be stored at the end of the page. What wasn't handled, was the splice code that actually called a function to return the length of the data in order to zero out the rest of the page before sending it up to user space. These data bits were returned with the length making the value negative, and that negative value was not checked. It was compared to PAGE_SIZE, and only used if the size was less than PAGE_SIZE. Luckily PAGE_SIZE is unsigned long which made the compare an unsigned compare, meaning the negative size value did not end up causing a large portion of memory to be randomly zeroed out. Fixes: 66a8cb95ed040 ("ring-buffer: Add place holder recording of dropped events") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-03-03posix-timer: Properly check sigevent->sigev_notifyThomas Gleixner1-16/+21
commit cef31d9af908243421258f1df35a4a644604efbe upstream. timer_create() specifies via sigevent->sigev_notify the signal delivery for the new timer. The valid modes are SIGEV_NONE, SIGEV_SIGNAL, SIGEV_THREAD and (SIGEV_SIGNAL | SIGEV_THREAD_ID). The sanity check in good_sigevent() is only checking the valid combination for the SIGEV_THREAD_ID bit, i.e. SIGEV_SIGNAL, but if SIGEV_THREAD_ID is not set it accepts any random value. This has no real effects on the posix timer and signal delivery code, but it affects show_timer() which handles the output of /proc/$PID/timers. That function uses a string array to pretty print sigev_notify. The access to that array has no bound checks, so random sigev_notify cause access beyond the array bounds. Add proper checks for the valid notify modes and remove the SIGEV_THREAD_ID masking from various code pathes as SIGEV_NONE can never be set in combination with SIGEV_THREAD_ID. Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Add sig_none variable in common_timer_get(), added earlier upstream - Adjust filename, context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-03-03kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility group_info allocatorsThiago Rafael Becker2-2/+4
commit bdcf0a423ea1c40bbb40e7ee483b50fc8aa3d758 upstream. In testing, we found that nfsd threads may call set_groups in parallel for the same entry cached in auth.unix.gid, racing in the call of groups_sort, corrupting the groups for that entry and leading to permission denials for the client. This patch: - Make groups_sort globally visible. - Move the call to groups_sort to the modifiers of group_info - Remove the call to groups_sort from set_groups Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171211151420.18655-1-thiago.becker@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thiago Rafael Becker <thiago.becker@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Acked-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Drop change in gss_rpc_xdr.c - Adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-03-03kdb: Fix handling of kallsyms_symbol_next() return valueDaniel Thompson1-1/+1
commit c07d35338081d107e57cf37572d8cc931a8e32e2 upstream. kallsyms_symbol_next() returns a boolean (true on success). Currently kdb_read() tests the return value with an inequality that unconditionally evaluates to true. This is fixed in the obvious way and, since the conditional branch is supposed to be unreachable, we also add a WARN_ON(). Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-02-13blktrace: fix unlocked access to init/start-stop/teardownJens Axboe1-10/+48
commit 1f2cac107c591c24b60b115d6050adc213d10fc0 upstream. sg.c calls into the blktrace functions without holding the proper queue mutex for doing setup, start/stop, or teardown. Add internal unlocked variants, and export the ones that do the proper locking. Fixes: 6da127ad0918 ("blktrace: Add blktrace ioctls to SCSI generic devices") Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-02-13blktrace: Fix potential deadlock between delete & sysfs opsWaiman Long1-6/+12
commit 5acb3cc2c2e9d3020a4fee43763c6463767f1572 upstream. The lockdep code had reported the following unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(s_active#228); lock(&bdev->bd_mutex/1); lock(s_active#228); lock(&bdev->bd_mutex); *** DEADLOCK *** The deadlock may happen when one task (CPU1) is trying to delete a partition in a block device and another task (CPU0) is accessing tracing sysfs file (e.g. /sys/block/dm-1/trace/act_mask) in that partition. The s_active isn't an actual lock. It is a reference count (kn->count) on the sysfs (kernfs) file. Removal of a sysfs file, however, require a wait until all the references are gone. The reference count is treated like a rwsem using lockdep instrumentation code. The fact that a thread is in the sysfs callback method or in the ioctl call means there is a reference to the opended sysfs or device file. That should prevent the underlying block structure from being removed. Instead of using bd_mutex in the block_device structure, a new blk_trace_mutex is now added to the request_queue structure to protect access to the blk_trace structure. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Fix typo in patch subject line, and prune a comment detailing how the code used to work. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-02-13kprobes, x86/alternatives: Use text_mutex to protect smp_alt_modulesZhou Chengming1-0/+2
commit e846d13958066828a9483d862cc8370a72fadbb6 upstream. We use alternatives_text_reserved() to check if the address is in the fixed pieces of alternative reserved, but the problem is that we don't hold the smp_alt mutex when call this function. So the list traversal may encounter a deleted list_head if another path is doing alternatives_smp_module_del(). One solution is that we can hold smp_alt mutex before call this function, but the difficult point is that the callers of this functions, arch_prepare_kprobe() and arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe(), are called inside the text_mutex. So we must hold smp_alt mutex before we go into these arch dependent code. But we can't now, the smp_alt mutex is the arch dependent part, only x86 has it. Maybe we can export another arch dependent callback to solve this. But there is a simpler way to handle this problem. We can reuse the text_mutex to protect smp_alt_modules instead of using another mutex. And all the arch dependent checks of kprobes are inside the text_mutex, so it's safe now. Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bp@suse.de Fixes: 2cfa197 "ftrace/alternatives: Introducing *_text_reserved functions" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509585501-79466-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-02-13x86/smp: Don't ever patch back to UP if we unplug cpusRusty Russell1-11/+0
commit 816afe4ff98ee10b1d30fd66361be132a0a5cee6 upstream. We still patch SMP instructions to UP variants if we boot with a single CPU, but not at any other time. In particular, not if we unplug CPUs to return to a single cpu. Paul McKenney points out: mean offline overhead is 6251/48=130.2 milliseconds. If I remove the alternatives_smp_switch() from the offline path [...] the mean offline overhead is 550/42=13.1 milliseconds Basically, we're never going to get those 120ms back, and the code is pretty messy. We get rid of: 1) The "smp-alt-once" boot option. It's actually "smp-alt-boot", the documentation is wrong. It's now the default. 2) The skip_smp_alternatives flag used by suspend. 3) arch_disable_nonboot_cpus_begin() and arch_disable_nonboot_cpus_end() which were only used to set this one flag. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul McKenney <paul.mckenney@us.ibm.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87vcgwwive.fsf@rustcorp.com.au Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-01-07KAISER: Kernel Address IsolationHugh Dickins1-0/+6
This patch introduces our implementation of KAISER (Kernel Address Isolation to have Side-channels Efficiently Removed), a kernel isolation technique to close hardware side channels on kernel address information. More information about the original patch can be found at: https://github.com/IAIK/KAISER http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149390087310405&w=2 Daniel Gruss <daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at> Richard Fellner <richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at> Michael Schwarz <michael.schwarz@iaik.tugraz.at> <clementine.maurice@iaik.tugraz.at> <moritz.lipp@iaik.tugraz.at> That original was then developed further by Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> then others after this snapshot. This combined patch for 3.2.96 was derived from hughd's patches below for 3.18.72, in 2017-12-04's kaiser-3.18.72.tar; except for the last, which was sent in 2017-12-09's nokaiser-3.18.72.tar. They have been combined in order to minimize the effort of rebasing: most of the patches in the 3.18.72 series were small fixes and cleanups and enhancements to three large patches. About the only new work in this backport is a simple reimplementation of kaiser_remove_mapping(): since mm/pageattr.c changed a lot between 3.2 and 3.18, and the mods there for Kaiser never seemed necessary. KAISER: Kernel Address Isolation kaiser: merged update kaiser: do not set _PAGE_NX on pgd_none kaiser: stack map PAGE_SIZE at THREAD_SIZE-PAGE_SIZE kaiser: fix build and FIXME in alloc_ldt_struct() kaiser: KAISER depends on SMP kaiser: fix regs to do_nmi() ifndef CONFIG_KAISER kaiser: fix perf crashes kaiser: ENOMEM if kaiser_pagetable_walk() NULL kaiser: tidied up asm/kaiser.h somewhat kaiser: tidied up kaiser_add/remove_mapping slightly kaiser: kaiser_remove_mapping() move along the pgd kaiser: align addition to x86/mm/Makefile kaiser: cleanups while trying for gold link kaiser: name that 0x1000 KAISER_SHADOW_PGD_OFFSET kaiser: delete KAISER_REAL_SWITCH option kaiser: vmstat show NR_KAISERTABLE as nr_overhead kaiser: enhanced by kernel and user PCIDs kaiser: load_new_mm_cr3() let SWITCH_USER_CR3 flush user kaiser: PCID 0 for kernel and 128 for user kaiser: x86_cr3_pcid_noflush and x86_cr3_pcid_user kaiser: paranoid_entry pass cr3 need to paranoid_exit kaiser: _pgd_alloc() without __GFP_REPEAT to avoid stalls kaiser: fix unlikely error in alloc_ldt_struct() kaiser: drop is_atomic arg to kaiser_pagetable_walk() Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> [bwh: - Fixed the #undef in arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h - Add missing #include in arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-01-07sched/core: Idle_task_exit() shouldn't use switch_mm_irqs_off()Andy Lutomirski1-1/+1
commit 252d2a4117bc181b287eeddf848863788da733ae upstream. idle_task_exit() can be called with IRQs on x86 on and therefore should use switch_mm(), not switch_mm_irqs_off(). This doesn't seem to cause any problems right now, but it will confuse my upcoming TLB flush changes. Nonetheless, I think it should be backported because it's trivial. There won't be any meaningful performance impact because idle_task_exit() is only used when offlining a CPU. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: f98db6013c55 ("sched/core: Add switch_mm_irqs_off() and use it in the scheduler") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca3d1a9fa93a0b49f5a8ff729eda3640fb6abdf9.1497034141.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-01-07sched/core: Add switch_mm_irqs_off() and use it in the schedulerAndy Lutomirski1-3/+3
commit f98db6013c557c216da5038d9c52045be55cd039 upstream. By default, this is the same thing as switch_mm(). x86 will override it as an optimization. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/df401df47bdd6be3e389c6f1e3f5310d70e81b2c.1461688545.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-01-01ptrace: change __ptrace_unlink() to clear ->ptrace under ->siglockOleg Nesterov1-2/+1
commit 1333ab03150478df8d6f5673a91df1e50dc6ab97 upstream. This test-case (simplified version of generated by syzkaller) #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/ptrace.h> #include <sys/wait.h> void test(void) { for (;;) { if (fork()) { wait(NULL); continue; } ptrace(PTRACE_SEIZE, getppid(), 0, 0); ptrace(PTRACE_INTERRUPT, getppid(), 0, 0); _exit(0); } } int main(void) { int np; for (np = 0; np < 8; ++np) if (!fork()) test(); while (wait(NULL) > 0) ; return 0; } triggers the 2nd WARN_ON_ONCE(!signr) warning in do_jobctl_trap(). The problem is that __ptrace_unlink() clears task->jobctl under siglock but task->ptrace is cleared without this lock held; this fools the "else" branch which assumes that !PT_SEIZED means PT_PTRACED. Note also that most of other PTRACE_SEIZE checks can race with detach from the exiting tracer too. Say, the callers of ptrace_trap_notify() assume that SEIZED can't go away after it was checked. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-01-01kernel/params.c: align add_sysfs_param documentation with codeJean Delvare1-1/+1
commit 630cc2b30a42c70628368a412beb4a5e5dd71abe upstream. This parameter is named kp, so the documentation should use that. Fixes: 9b473de87209 ("param: Fix duplicate module prefixes") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170919142656.64aea59e@endymion Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2018-01-01sched/sysctl: Check user input value of sysctl_sched_time_avgEthan Zhao1-1/+2
commit 5ccba44ba118a5000cccc50076b0344632459779 upstream. System will hang if user set sysctl_sched_time_avg to 0: [root@XXX ~]# sysctl kernel.sched_time_avg_ms=0 Stack traceback for pid 0 0xffff883f6406c600 0 0 1 3 R 0xffff883f6406cf50 *swapper/3 ffff883f7ccc3ae8 0000000000000018 ffffffff810c4dd0 0000000000000000 0000000000017800 ffff883f7ccc3d78 0000000000000003 ffff883f7ccc3bf8 ffffffff810c4fc9 ffff883f7ccc3c08 00000000810c5043 ffff883f7ccc3c08 Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff810c4dd0>] ? update_group_capacity+0x110/0x200 [<ffffffff810c4fc9>] ? update_sd_lb_stats+0x109/0x600 [<ffffffff810c5507>] ? find_busiest_group+0x47/0x530 [<ffffffff810c5b84>] ? load_balance+0x194/0x900 [<ffffffff810ad5ca>] ? update_rq_clock.part.83+0x1a/0xe0 [<ffffffff810c6d42>] ? rebalance_domains+0x152/0x290 [<ffffffff810c6f5c>] ? run_rebalance_domains+0xdc/0x1d0 [<ffffffff8108a75b>] ? __do_softirq+0xfb/0x320 [<ffffffff8108ac85>] ? irq_exit+0x125/0x130 [<ffffffff810b3a17>] ? scheduler_ipi+0x97/0x160 [<ffffffff81052709>] ? smp_reschedule_interrupt+0x29/0x30 [<ffffffff8173a1be>] ? reschedule_interrupt+0x6e/0x80 <EOI> [<ffffffff815bc83c>] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0xcc/0x230 [<ffffffff815bc80c>] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0x9c/0x230 [<ffffffff815bc9d7>] ? cpuidle_enter+0x17/0x20 [<ffffffff810cd6dc>] ? cpu_startup_entry+0x38c/0x420 [<ffffffff81053373>] ? start_secondary+0x173/0x1e0 Because divide-by-zero error happens in function: update_group_capacity() update_cpu_capacity() scale_rt_capacity() { ... total = sched_avg_period() + delta; used = div_u64(avg, total); ... } To fix this issue, check user input value of sysctl_sched_time_avg, keep it unchanged when hitting invalid input, and set the minimum limit of sysctl_sched_time_avg to 1 ms. Reported-by: James Puthukattukaran <james.puthukattukaran@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ethan Zhao <ethan.zhao@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: efault@gmx.de Cc: ethan.kernel@gmail.com Cc: keescook@chromium.org Cc: mcgrof@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504504774-18253-1-git-send-email-ethan.zhao@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2017-11-26genirq: Make sparse_irq_lock protect what it should protectThomas Gleixner1-17/+7
commit 12ac1d0f6c3e95732d144ffa65c8b20fbd9aa462 upstream. for_each_active_irq() iterates the sparse irq allocation bitmap. The caller must hold sparse_irq_lock. Several code pathes expect that an active bit in the sparse bitmap also has a valid interrupt descriptor. Unfortunately that's not true. The (de)allocation is a two step process, which holds the sparse_irq_lock only across the queue/remove from the radix tree and the set/clear in the allocation bitmap. If a iteration locks sparse_irq_lock between the two steps, then it might see an active bit but the corresponding irq descriptor is NULL. If that is dereferenced unconditionally, then the kernel oopses. Of course, all iterator sites could be audited and fixed, but.... There is no reason why the sparse_irq_lock needs to be dropped between the two steps, in fact the code becomes simpler when the mutex is held across both and the semantics become more straight forward, so future problems of missing NULL pointer checks in the iteration are avoided and all existing sites are fixed in one go. Expand the lock held sections so both operations are covered and the bitmap and the radixtree are in sync. Fixes: a05a900a51c7 ("genirq: Make sparse_lock a mutex") Reported-and-tested-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2017-11-26ftrace: Fix selftest goto location on errorSteven Rostedt (VMware)1-1/+1
commit 46320a6acc4fb58f04bcf78c4c942cc43b20f986 upstream. In the second iteration of trace_selftest_ops(), the error goto label is wrong in the case where trace_selftest_test_global_cnt is off. In the case of error, it leaks the dynamic ops that was allocated. Fixes: 95950c2e ("ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context, indentation] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2017-11-11perf/core: Fix group {cpu,task} validationMark Rutland1-20/+19
commit 64aee2a965cf2954a038b5522f11d2cd2f0f8f3e upstream. Regardless of which events form a group, it does not make sense for the events to target different tasks and/or CPUs, as this leaves the group inconsistent and impossible to schedule. The core perf code assumes that these are consistent across (successfully intialised) groups. Core perf code only verifies this when moving SW events into a HW context. Thus, we can violate this requirement for pure SW groups and pure HW groups, unless the relevant PMU driver happens to perform this verification itself. These mismatched groups subsequently wreak havoc elsewhere. For example, we handle watchpoints as SW events, and reserve watchpoint HW on a per-CPU basis at pmu::event_init() time to ensure that any event that is initialised is guaranteed to have a slot at pmu::add() time. However, the core code only checks the group leader's cpu filter (via event_filter_match()), and can thus install follower events onto CPUs violating thier (mismatched) CPU filters, potentially installing them into a CPU without sufficient reserved slots. This can be triggered with the below test case, resulting in warnings from arch backends. #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h> #include <linux/perf_event.h> #include <sched.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/prctl.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> #include <unistd.h> static int perf_event_open(struct perf_event_attr *attr, pid_t pid, int cpu, int group_fd, unsigned long flags) { return syscall(__NR_perf_event_open, attr, pid, cpu, group_fd, flags); } char watched_char; struct perf_event_attr wp_attr = { .type = PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT, .bp_type = HW_BREAKPOINT_RW, .bp_addr = (unsigned long)&watched_char, .bp_len = 1, .size = sizeof(wp_attr), }; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int leader, ret; cpu_set_t cpus; /* * Force use of CPU0 to ensure our CPU0-bound events get scheduled. */ CPU_ZERO(&cpus); CPU_SET(0, &cpus); ret = sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpus), &cpus); if (ret) { printf("Unable to set cpu affinity\n"); return 1; } /* open leader event, bound to this task, CPU0 only */ leader = perf_event_open(&wp_attr, 0, 0, -1, 0); if (leader < 0) { printf("Couldn't open leader: %d\n", leader); return 1; } /* * Open a follower event that is bound to the same task, but a * different CPU. This means that the group should never be possible to * schedule. */ ret = perf_event_open(&wp_attr, 0, 1, leader, 0); if (ret < 0) { printf("Couldn't open mismatched follower: %d\n", ret); return 1; } else { printf("Opened leader/follower with mismastched CPUs\n"); } /* * Open as many independent events as we can, all bound to the same * task, CPU0 only. */ do { ret = perf_event_open(&wp_attr, 0, 0, -1, 0); } while (ret >= 0); /* * Force enable/disble all events to trigger the erronoeous * installation of the follower event. */ printf("Opened all events. Toggling..\n"); for (;;) { prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE, 0, 0, 0, 0); prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_ENABLE, 0, 0, 0, 0); } return 0; } Fix this by validating this requirement regardless of whether we're moving events. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498142498-15758-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2017-11-11perf: Tighten (and fix) the grouping conditionPeter Zijlstra1-2/+13
commit c3c87e770458aa004bd7ed3f29945ff436fd6511 upstream. The fix from 9fc81d87420d ("perf: Fix events installation during moving group") was incomplete in that it failed to recognise that creating a group with events for different CPUs is semantically broken -- they cannot be co-scheduled. Furthermore, it leads to real breakage where, when we create an event for CPU Y and then migrate it to form a group on CPU X, the code gets confused where the counter is programmed -- triggered in practice as well by me via the perf fuzzer. Fix this by tightening the rules for creating groups. Only allow grouping of counters that can be co-scheduled in the same context. This means for the same task and/or the same cpu. Fixes: 9fc81d87420d ("perf: Fix events installation during moving group") Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150123125834.090683288@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2017-11-11audit: Fix use after free in audit_remove_watch_rule()Jan Kara1-5/+7
commit d76036ab47eafa6ce52b69482e91ca3ba337d6d6 upstream. audit_remove_watch_rule() drops watch's reference to parent but then continues to work with it. That is not safe as parent can get freed once we drop our reference. The following is a trivial reproducer: mount -o loop image /mnt touch /mnt/file auditctl -w /mnt/file -p wax umount /mnt auditctl -D <crash in fsnotify_destroy_mark()> Grab our own reference in audit_remove_watch_rule() earlier to make sure mark does not get freed under us. Reported-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Tested-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2017-11-11perf/core: Fix locking for children siblings group readJiri Olsa1-0/+6
commit 2aeb1883547626d82c597cce2c99f0b9c62e2425 upstream. We're missing ctx lock when iterating children siblings within the perf_read path for group reading. Following race and crash can happen: User space doing read syscall on event group leader: T1: perf_read lock event->ctx->mutex perf_read_group lock leader->child_mutex __perf_read_group_add(child) list_for_each_entry(sub, &leader->sibling_list, group_entry) ----> sub might be invalid at this point, because it could get removed via perf_event_exit_task_context in T2 Child exiting and cleaning up its events: T2: perf_event_exit_task_context lock ctx->mutex list_for_each_entry_safe(child_event, next, &child_ctx->event_list,... perf_event_exit_event(child) lock ctx->lock perf_group_detach(child) unlock ctx->lock ----> child is removed from sibling_list without any sync with T1 path above ... free_event(child) Before the child is removed from the leader's child_list, (and thus is omitted from perf_read_group processing), we need to ensure that perf_read_group touches child's siblings under its ctx->lock. Peter further notes: | One additional note; this bug got exposed by commit: | | ba5213ae6b88 ("perf/core: Correct event creation with PERF_FORMAT_GROUP") | | which made it possible to actually trigger this code-path. Tested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: ba5213ae6b88 ("perf/core: Correct event creation with PERF_FORMAT_GROUP") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170720141455.2106-1-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2017-11-11perf/core: Invert perf_read_group() loopsPeter Zijlstra1-25/+46
commit fa8c269353d560b7c28119ad7617029f92e40b15 upstream. In order to enable the use of perf_event_read(.group = true), we need to invert the sibling-child loop nesting of perf_read_group(). Currently we iterate the child list for each sibling, this precludes using group reads. Flip things around so we iterate each group for each child. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> [ Made the patch compile and things. ] Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441336073-22750-7-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2 as a dependency of commit 2aeb18835476 ("perf/core: Fix locking for children siblings group read"): - Keep the function name perf_event_read_group() - Keep using perf_event_read_value()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2017-10-12cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic flagsZefan Li1-4/+5
commit 2ad654bc5e2b211e92f66da1d819e47d79a866f0 upstream. When we change cpuset.memory_spread_{page,slab}, cpuset will flip PF_SPREAD_{PAGE,SLAB} bit of tsk->flags for each task in that cpuset. This should be done using atomic bitops, but currently we don't, which is broken. Tetsuo reported a hard-to-reproduce kernel crash on RHEL6, which happened when one thread tried to clear PF_USED_MATH while at the same time another thread tried to flip PF_SPREAD_PAGE/PF_SPREAD_SLAB. They both operate on the same task. Here's the full report: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/19/230 To fix this, we make PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB atomic flags. v4: - updated mm/slab.c. (Fengguang Wu) - updated Documentation. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Fixes: 950592f7b991 ("cpusets: update tasks' page/slab spread flags in time") Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> [lizf: Backported to 3.4: - adjust context - check current->flags & PF_MEMPOLICY rather than current->mempolicy] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2017-10-12perf/core: Correct event creation with PERF_FORMAT_GROUPPeter Zijlstra1-5/+10
commit ba5213ae6b88fb170c4771fef6553f759c7d8cdd upstream. Andi was asking about PERF_FORMAT_GROUP vs inherited events, which led to the discovery of a bug from commit: 3dab77fb1bf8 ("perf: Rework/fix the whole read vs group stuff") - PERF_SAMPLE_GROUP = 1U << 4, + PERF_SAMPLE_READ = 1U << 4, - if (attr->inherit && (attr->sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_GROUP)) + if (attr->inherit && (attr->read_format & PERF_FORMAT_GROUP)) is a clear fail :/ While this changes user visible behaviour; it was previously possible to create an inherited event with PERF_SAMPLE_READ; this is deemed acceptible because its results were always incorrect. Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Fixes: 3dab77fb1bf8 ("perf: Rework/fix the whole read vs group stuff") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530094512.dy2nljns2uq7qa3j@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2017-10-12sched/topology: Fix building of overlapping sched-groupsPeter Zijlstra1-1/+1
commit 0372dd2736e02672ac6e189c31f7d8c02ad543cd upstream. When building the overlapping groups, we very obviously should start with the previous domain of _this_ @cpu, not CPU-0. This can be readily demonstrated with a topology like: node 0 1 2 3 0: 10 20 30 20 1: 20 10 20 30 2: 30 20 10 20 3: 20 30 20 10 Where (for example) CPU1 ends up generating the following nonsensical groups: [] CPU1 attaching sched-domain: [] domain 0: span 0-2 level NUMA [] groups: 1 2 0 [] domain 1: span 0-3 level NUMA [] groups: 1-3 (cpu_capacity = 3072) 0-1,3 (cpu_capacity = 3072) Where the fact that domain 1 doesn't include a group with span 0-2 is the obvious fail. With patch this looks like: [] CPU1 attaching sched-domain: [] domain 0: span 0-2 level NUMA [] groups: 1 0 2 [] domain 1: span 0-3 level NUMA [] groups: 0-2 (cpu_capacity = 3072) 0,2-3 (cpu_capacity = 3072) Debugged-by: Lauro Ramos Venancio <lvenanci@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Fixes: e3589f6c81e4 ("sched: Allow for overlapping sched_domain spans") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2017-09-15ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checksJann Horn4-11/+34
commit caaee6234d05a58c5b4d05e7bf766131b810a657 upstream. By checking the effective credentials instead of the real UID / permitted capabilities, ensure that the calling process actually intended to use its credentials. To ensure that all ptrace checks use the correct caller credentials (e.g. in case out-of-tree code or newly added code omits the PTRACE_MODE_*CREDS flag), use two new flags and require one of them to be set. The problem was that when a privileged task had temporarily dropped its privileges, e.g. by calling setreuid(0, user_uid), with the intent to perform following syscalls with the credentials of a user, it still passed ptrace access checks that the user would not be able to pass. While an attacker should not be able to convince the privileged task to perform a ptrace() syscall, this is a problem because the ptrace access check is reused for things in procfs. In particular, the following somewhat interesting procfs entries only rely on ptrace access checks: /proc/$pid/stat - uses the check for determining whether pointers should be visible, useful for bypassing ASLR /proc/$pid/maps - also useful for bypassing ASLR /proc/$pid/cwd - useful for gaining access to restricted directories that contain files with lax permissions, e.g. in this scenario: lrwxrwxrwx root root /proc/13020/cwd -> /root/foobar drwx------ root root /root drwxr-xr-x root root /root/foobar -rw-r--r-- root root /root/foobar/secret Therefore, on a system where a root-owned mode 6755 binary changes its effective credentials as described and then dumps a user-specified file, this could be used by an attacker to reveal the memory layout of root's processes or reveal the contents of files he is not allowed to access (through /proc/$pid/cwd). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.o