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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2019-01-16 10:31:09 -0800
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2019-05-02 21:41:23 +0100
commit0c8a56a6fa056db65e66873a1b597c51559049b2 (patch)
treeeda4a9de0c0504f2e47c662ad06ab2ccdfafd176 /security
parent32ef76c716e5b45bc4207ce24e78dfe146226af3 (diff)
Yama: Check for pid death before checking ancestry
commit 9474f4e7cd71a633fa1ef93b7daefd44bbdfd482 upstream. It's possible that a pid has died before we take the rcu lock, in which case we can't walk the ancestry list as it may be detached. Instead, check for death first before doing the walk. Reported-by: syzbot+a9ac39bf55329e206219@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: 2d514487faf1 ("security: Yama LSM") Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/yama/yama_lsm.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
index 0038834b558e..6da531603614 100644
--- a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
+++ b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
@@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ int yama_ptrace_access_check(struct task_struct *child,
break;
case YAMA_SCOPE_RELATIONAL:
rcu_read_lock();
- if (!task_is_descendant(current, child) &&
+ if (!pid_alive(child))
+ rc = -EPERM;
+ if (!rc && !task_is_descendant(current, child) &&
!ptracer_exception_found(current, child) &&
!ns_capable(__task_cred(child)->user_ns, CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
rc = -EPERM;