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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2016-11-22 19:06:50 +0100
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2016-11-22 19:57:38 +0100
commit84d77d3f06e7e8dea057d10e8ec77ad71f721be3 (patch)
tree6efbcfc0877019c2afbdf11596362c8198ebdd0d /mm/memory.c
parentptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP (diff)
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ptrace: Don't allow accessing an undumpable mm
It is the reasonable expectation that if an executable file is not readable there will be no way for a user without special privileges to read the file. This is enforced in ptrace_attach but if ptrace is already attached before exec there is no enforcement for read-only executables. As the only way to read such an mm is through access_process_vm spin a variant called ptrace_access_vm that will fail if the target process is not being ptraced by the current process, or the current process did not have sufficient privileges when ptracing began to read the target processes mm. In the ptrace implementations replace access_process_vm by ptrace_access_vm. There remain several ptrace sites that still use access_process_vm as they are reading the target executables instructions (for kernel consumption) or register stacks. As such it does not appear necessary to add a permission check to those calls. This bug has always existed in Linux. Fixes: v1.0 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index e18c57bdc75c..cbb1e5e5f791 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3868,7 +3868,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_access_phys);
* Access another process' address space as given in mm. If non-NULL, use the
* given task for page fault accounting.
*/
-static int __access_remote_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
+int __access_remote_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, unsigned int gup_flags)
{
struct vm_area_struct *vma;