Replace the 32bit exec_id with a 64bit exec_id to make it impossible to wrap the exec_id counter. With care an attacker can cause exec_id wrap and send arbitrary signals to a newly exec'd parent. This bypasses the signal sending checks if the parent changes their credentials during exec. The severity of this problem can been seen that in my limited testing of a 32bit exec_id it can take as little as 19s to exec 65536 times. Which means that it can take as little as 14 days to wrap a 32bit exec_id. Adam Zabrocki has succeeded wrapping the self_exe_id in 7 days. Even my slower timing is in the uptime of a typical server. Which means self_exec_id is simply a speed bump today, and if exec gets noticably faster self_exec_id won't even be a speed bump. Extending self_exec_id to 64bits introduces a problem on 32bit architectures where reading self_exec_id is no longer atomic and can take two read instructions. Which means that is is possible to hit a window where the read value of exec_id does not match the written value. So with very lucky timing after this change this still remains expoiltable. I have updated the update of exec_id on exec to use WRITE_ONCE and the read of exec_id in do_notify_parent to use READ_ONCE to make it clear that there is no locking between these two locations. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/20200324215049.GA3710@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 2.3.23pre2 Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Linus would you prefer to take this patch directly or I could put it in a brach and send you a pull request. fs/exec.c | 2 +- include/linux/sched.h | 4 ++-- kernel/signal.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 0e46ec57fe0a..d55710a36056 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -1413,7 +1413,7 @@ void setup_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm) /* An exec changes our domain. We are no longer part of the thread group */ - current->self_exec_id++; + WRITE_ONCE(current->self_exec_id, current->self_exec_id + 1); flush_signal_handlers(current, 0); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(setup_new_exec); diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 04278493bf15..0323e4f0982a 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -939,8 +939,8 @@ struct task_struct { struct seccomp seccomp; /* Thread group tracking: */ - u32 parent_exec_id; - u32 self_exec_id; + u64 parent_exec_id; + u64 self_exec_id; /* Protection against (de-)allocation: mm, files, fs, tty, keyrings, mems_allowed, mempolicy: */ spinlock_t alloc_lock; diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 9ad8dea93dbb..5383b562df85 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -1926,7 +1926,7 @@ bool do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig) * This is only possible if parent == real_parent. * Check if it has changed security domain. */ - if (tsk->parent_exec_id != tsk->parent->self_exec_id) + if (tsk->parent_exec_id != READ_ONCE(tsk->parent->self_exec_id)) sig = SIGCHLD; } -- 2.20.1
