Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

Pull ptrace fixes from Eric Biederman:
 "This is just two very minor fixes:

   - prevent ptrace from reading unitialized kernel memory found twice
     by syzkaller

   - restore a missing smp_rmb in ptrace_may_access and add comment tp
     it so it is not removed by accident again.

  Apologies for being a little slow about getting this to you, I am
  still figuring out how to develop with a little baby in the house"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  ptrace: restore smp_rmb() in __ptrace_may_access()
  signal/ptrace: Don't leak unitialized kernel memory with PTRACE_PEEK_SIGINFO

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index e74ffdc98a92..c73a87a4df13 100644
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -446,6 +446,15 @@ int commit_creds(struct cred *new)
 		if (task->mm)
 			set_dumpable(task->mm, suid_dumpable);
 		task->pdeath_signal = 0;
+		/*
+		 * If a task drops privileges and becomes nondumpable,
+		 * the dumpability change must become visible before
+		 * the credential change; otherwise, a __ptrace_may_access()
+		 * racing with this change may be able to attach to a task it
+		 * shouldn't be able to attach to (as if the task had dropped
+		 * privileges without becoming nondumpable).
+		 * Pairs with a read barrier in __ptrace_may_access().
+		 */
 		smp_wmb();
 	}