Current implementation of UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK modifies the file
descriptor table from the read() implementation of uffd, which may have
security implications for unprivileged use of the userfaultfd.
Limit availability of UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK only for callers that have
CAP_SYS_PTRACE.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/userfaultfd.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c
index f9fd18670e22..d99d166fd892 100644
--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -1834,13 +1834,12 @@ static int userfaultfd_api(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
if (copy_from_user(&uffdio_api, buf, sizeof(uffdio_api)))
goto out;
features = uffdio_api.features;
- if (uffdio_api.api != UFFD_API || (features & ~UFFD_API_FEATURES)) {
- memset(&uffdio_api, 0, sizeof(uffdio_api));
- if (copy_to_user(buf, &uffdio_api, sizeof(uffdio_api)))
- goto out;
- ret = -EINVAL;
- goto out;
- }
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ if (uffdio_api.api != UFFD_API || (features & ~UFFD_API_FEATURES))
+ goto err_out;
+ ret = -EPERM;
+ if ((features & UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK) && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
+ goto err_out;
/* report all available features and ioctls to userland */
uffdio_api.features = UFFD_API_FEATURES;
uffdio_api.ioctls = UFFD_API_IOCTLS;
@@ -1853,6 +1852,11 @@ static int userfaultfd_api(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
ret = 0;
out:
return ret;
+err_out:
+ memset(&uffdio_api, 0, sizeof(uffdio_api));
+ if (copy_to_user(buf, &uffdio_api, sizeof(uffdio_api)))
+ ret = -EFAULT;
+ goto out;
}
static long userfaultfd_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd,
--
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