This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
selinux: selinux_setprocattr()->ptrace_parent() needs rcu_read_lock()
to the 3.4-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:
selinux-selinux_setprocattr-ptrace_parent-needs-rcu_read_lock.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c0c1439541f5305b57a83d599af32b74182933fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 17:45:01 -0500
Subject: selinux: selinux_setprocattr()->ptrace_parent() needs rcu_read_lock()
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit c0c1439541f5305b57a83d599af32b74182933fe upstream.
selinux_setprocattr() does ptrace_parent(p) under task_lock(p),
but task_struct->alloc_lock doesn't pin ->parent or ->ptrace,
this looks confusing and triggers the "suspicious RCU usage"
warning because ptrace_parent() does rcu_dereference_check().
And in theory this is wrong, spin_lock()->preempt_disable()
doesn't necessarily imply rcu_read_lock() we need to access
the ->parent.
Reported-by: Evan McNabb <emcnabb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/selinux/hooks.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -5445,11 +5445,11 @@ static int selinux_setprocattr(struct ta
/* Check for ptracing, and update the task SID if ok.
Otherwise, leave SID unchanged and fail. */
ptsid = 0;
- task_lock(p);
+ rcu_read_lock();
tracer = ptrace_parent(p);
if (tracer)
ptsid = task_sid(tracer);
- task_unlock(p);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
if (tracer) {
error = avc_has_perm(ptsid, sid, SECCLASS_PROCESS,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/selinux-selinux_setprocattr-ptrace_parent-needs-rcu_read_lock.patch
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