This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled proc: Fix ptrace-based permission checks for accessing task maps to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: proc-fix-ptrace-based-permission-checks-for-accessing-task-maps.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From undefined@xxxxxxxxx Mon Feb 29 22:02:13 2016 From: Corey Wright <undefined@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 02:42:39 -0600 Subject: proc: Fix ptrace-based permission checks for accessing task maps To: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Jann Horn <jann@xxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <20160228024239.c82b6c2db17c670611ee6b16@xxxxxxxxx> From: Corey Wright <undefined@xxxxxxxxx> Modify mm_access() calls in fs/proc/task_mmu.c and fs/proc/task_nommu.c to have the mode include PTRACE_MODE_FSCREDS so accessing /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/pagemap is not denied to all users. In backporting upstream commit caaee623 to pre-3.18 kernel versions it was overlooked that mm_access() is used in fs/proc/task_*mmu.c as those calls were removed in 3.18 (by upstream commit 29a40ace) and did not exist at the time of the original commit. Signed-off-by: Corey Wright <undefined@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jann Horn <jann@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 4 ++-- fs/proc/task_nommu.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static void *m_start(struct seq_file *m, if (!priv->task) return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH); - mm = mm_access(priv->task, PTRACE_MODE_READ); + mm = mm_access(priv->task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS); if (!mm || IS_ERR(mm)) return mm; down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); @@ -1182,7 +1182,7 @@ static ssize_t pagemap_read(struct file if (!pm.buffer) goto out_task; - mm = mm_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ); + mm = mm_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS); ret = PTR_ERR(mm); if (!mm || IS_ERR(mm)) goto out_free; --- a/fs/proc/task_nommu.c +++ b/fs/proc/task_nommu.c @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ static void *m_start(struct seq_file *m, if (!priv->task) return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH); - mm = mm_access(priv->task, PTRACE_MODE_READ); + mm = mm_access(priv->task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS); if (!mm || IS_ERR(mm)) { put_task_struct(priv->task); priv->task = NULL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from undefined@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/proc-fix-ptrace-based-permission-checks-for-accessing-task-maps.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html