The patch titled
Subject: Unify migrate_pages and move_pages access checks
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
unify-migrate_pages-and-move_pages-access-checks.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/unify-migrate_pages-and-move_pages-access-checks.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/unify-migrate_pages-and-move_pages-access-checks.patch
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From: Otto Ebeling <otto.ebeling@xxxxxx>
Subject: Unify migrate_pages and move_pages access checks
197e7e521384a23b ("Sanitize 'move_pages()' permission checks") fixed a
security issue I reported in the move_pages syscall, and made it so that
you can't act on set-uid processes unless you have the CAP_SYS_PTRACE
capability.
Unify the access check logic of migrate_pages to match the new behavior of
move_pages. We discussed this a bit in the security@ list and thought
it'd be good for consistency even though there's no evident security
impact. The NUMA node access checks are left intact and require
CAP_SYS_NICE as before.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1710011830320.6333@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Otto Ebeling <otto.ebeling@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 13 ++++---------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/mempolicy.c~unify-migrate_pages-and-move_pages-access-checks mm/mempolicy.c
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c~unify-migrate_pages-and-move_pages-access-checks
+++ a/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/compat.h>
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
@@ -1361,7 +1362,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(migrate_pages, pid_t, pi
const unsigned long __user *, old_nodes,
const unsigned long __user *, new_nodes)
{
- const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *tcred;
struct mm_struct *mm = NULL;
struct task_struct *task;
nodemask_t task_nodes;
@@ -1397,15 +1397,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(migrate_pages, pid_t, pi
err = -EINVAL;
/*
- * Check if this process has the right to modify the specified
- * process. The right exists if the process has administrative
- * capabilities, superuser privileges or the same
- * userid as the target process.
+ * Check if this process has the right to modify the specified process.
+ * Use the regular "ptrace_may_access()" checks.
*/
- tcred = __task_cred(task);
- if (!uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->suid) && !uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->uid) &&
- !uid_eq(cred->uid, tcred->suid) && !uid_eq(cred->uid, tcred->uid) &&
- !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
+ if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS)) {
rcu_read_unlock();
err = -EPERM;
goto out_put;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from otto.ebeling@xxxxxx are
unify-migrate_pages-and-move_pages-access-checks.patch
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