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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2019-01-16 10:31:09 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-01-26 09:42:50 +0100
commite08323f75b56dfd97711e2bfda3582bb42a5ceab (patch)
tree251d649bece93fc0b338e2585ea5ac07f9740977 /security
parentbc42c4f3384660793cc28f01e8145c1776c02f51 (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") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 cb6ed10816d4..0a8808954bd8 100644
--- a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
+++ b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
@@ -288,7 +288,9 @@ static 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;