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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-05-14 11:52:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-05-14 11:52:28 -0700
commit8c1684bb81f173543599f1848c29a2a3b1ee5907 (patch)
tree22eb880625f0ec7698a77b74b832bdb1162d2b7d /kernel
parentf44d5c489051c2127189abb25d3d1625d9564c2d (diff)
parent3f2c788a13143620c5471ac96ac4f033fc9ac3f3 (diff)
Merge tag 'for-linus-2020-05-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull thread fix from Christian Brauner: "This contains a single fix for all exported legacy fork helpers to block accidental access to clone3() features in the upper 32 bits of their respective flags arguments. I got Cced on a glibc issue where someone reported consistent failures for the legacy clone() syscall on ppc64le when sign extension was performed (since the clone() syscall in glibc exposes the flags argument as an int whereas the kernel uses unsigned long). The legacy clone() syscall is odd in a bunch of ways and here two things interact: - First, legacy clone's flag argument is word-size dependent, i.e. it's an unsigned long whereas most system calls with flag arguments use int or unsigned int. - Second, legacy clone() ignores unknown and deprecated flags. The two of them taken together means that users on 64bit systems can pass garbage for the upper 32bit of the clone() syscall since forever and things would just work fine. The following program compiled on a 64bit kernel prior to v5.7-rc1 will succeed and will fail post v5.7-rc1 with EBADF: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { pid_t pid; /* Note that legacy clone() has different argument ordering on * different architectures so this won't work everywhere. * * Only set the upper 32 bits. */ pid = syscall(__NR_clone, 0xffffffff00000000 | SIGCHLD, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL); if (pid < 0) exit(EXIT_FAILURE); if (pid == 0) exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); if (wait(NULL) != pid) exit(EXIT_FAILURE); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } Since legacy clone() couldn't be extended this was not a problem so far and nobody really noticed or cared since nothing in the kernel ever bothered to look at the upper 32 bits. But once we introduced clone3() and expanded the flag argument in struct clone_args to 64 bit we opened this can of worms. With the first flag-based extension to clone3() making use of the upper 32 bits of the flag argument we've effectively made it possible for the legacy clone() syscall to reach clone3() only flags on accident. The sign extension scenario is just the odd corner-case that we needed to figure this out. The reason we just realized this now and not already when we introduced CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND was that CLONE_INTO_CGROUP assumes that a valid cgroup file descriptor has been given - whereas CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND doesn't need to verify anything. It just silently resets the signal handlers to SIG_DFL. So the sign extension (or the user accidently passing garbage for the upper 32 bits) caused the CLONE_INTO_CGROUP bit to be raised and the kernel to error out when it didn't find a valid cgroup file descriptor. Note, I'm also capping kernel_thread()'s flag argument mainly because none of the new features make sense for kernel_thread() and we shouldn't risk them being accidently activated however unlikely. If we wanted to, we could even make kernel_thread() yell when an unknown flag has been set which it doesn't do right now. But it's not worth risking this in a bugfix imho" * tag 'for-linus-2020-05-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: fork: prevent accidental access to clone3 features
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 8c700f881d92..48ed22774efa 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2486,11 +2486,11 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
int __user *child_tidptr)
{
struct kernel_clone_args args = {
- .flags = (clone_flags & ~CSIGNAL),
+ .flags = (lower_32_bits(clone_flags) & ~CSIGNAL),
.pidfd = parent_tidptr,
.child_tid = child_tidptr,
.parent_tid = parent_tidptr,
- .exit_signal = (clone_flags & CSIGNAL),
+ .exit_signal = (lower_32_bits(clone_flags) & CSIGNAL),
.stack = stack_start,
.stack_size = stack_size,
};
@@ -2508,8 +2508,9 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
pid_t kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags)
{
struct kernel_clone_args args = {
- .flags = ((flags | CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED) & ~CSIGNAL),
- .exit_signal = (flags & CSIGNAL),
+ .flags = ((lower_32_bits(flags) | CLONE_VM |
+ CLONE_UNTRACED) & ~CSIGNAL),
+ .exit_signal = (lower_32_bits(flags) & CSIGNAL),
.stack = (unsigned long)fn,
.stack_size = (unsigned long)arg,
};
@@ -2570,11 +2571,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(clone, unsigned long, clone_flags, unsigned long, newsp,
#endif
{
struct kernel_clone_args args = {
- .flags = (clone_flags & ~CSIGNAL),
+ .flags = (lower_32_bits(clone_flags) & ~CSIGNAL),
.pidfd = parent_tidptr,
.child_tid = child_tidptr,
.parent_tid = parent_tidptr,
- .exit_signal = (clone_flags & CSIGNAL),
+ .exit_signal = (lower_32_bits(clone_flags) & CSIGNAL),
.stack = newsp,
.tls = tls,
};