The patch titled Subject: proc: check permissions earlier for /proc/*/wchan has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is proc-check-permissions-earlier-for-proc-wchan.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/proc-check-permissions-earlier-for-proc-wchan.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/proc-check-permissions-earlier-for-proc-wchan.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: proc: check permissions earlier for /proc/*/wchan get_wchan() accesses stack page before permissions are checked, let's not play this game. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180217071923.GA16074@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/base.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/proc/base.c~proc-check-permissions-earlier-for-proc-wchan fs/proc/base.c --- a/fs/proc/base.c~proc-check-permissions-earlier-for-proc-wchan +++ a/fs/proc/base.c @@ -391,14 +391,17 @@ static int proc_pid_wchan(struct seq_fil unsigned long wchan; char symname[KSYM_NAME_LEN]; - wchan = get_wchan(task); + if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS)) + goto print0; - if (wchan && ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS) - && !lookup_symbol_name(wchan, symname)) + wchan = get_wchan(task); + if (wchan && !lookup_symbol_name(wchan, symname)) { seq_printf(m, "%s", symname); - else - seq_putc(m, '0'); + return 0; + } +print0: + seq_putc(m, '0'); return 0; } #endif /* CONFIG_KALLSYMS */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are proc-do-less-stuff-under-pde_unload_lock.patch proc-move-proc-sysvipc-creation-to-where-it-belongs.patch proc-faster-open-close-of-files-without-release-hook.patch proc-randomize-struct-pde_opener.patch proc-move-struct-pde_opener-to-kmem-cache.patch proc-account-struct-pde_opener.patch proc-fix-proc-map_files-lookup-some-more.patch proc-check-permissions-earlier-for-proc-wchan.patch proc-use-set_puts-at-proc-wchan.patch seq_file-delete-small-value-optimization.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html