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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2009-03-28 23:20:19 +0000
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-03-28 17:30:00 -0700
commite426b64c412aaa3e9eb3e4b261dc5be0d5a83e78 (patch)
treec1528139b34fef3e4595576266c64068098fe211 /fs/exec.c
parent53e9309e01277ec99c38e84e0ca16921287cf470 (diff)
fix setuid sometimes doesn't
Joe Malicki reports that setuid sometimes doesn't: very rarely, a setuid root program does not get root euid; and, by the way, they have a health check running lsof every few minutes. Right, check_unsafe_exec() notes whether the files_struct is being shared by more threads than will get killed by the exec, and if so sets LSM_UNSAFE_SHARE to make bprm_set_creds() careful about euid. But /proc/<pid>/fd and /proc/<pid>/fdinfo lookups make transient use of get_files_struct(), which also raises that sharing count. There's a rather simple fix for this: exec's check on files->count has been redundant ever since 2.6.1 made it unshare_files() (except while compat_do_execve() omitted to do so) - just remove that check. [Note to -stable: this patch will not apply before 2.6.29: earlier releases should just remove the files->count line from unsafe_exec().] Reported-by: Joe Malicki <jmalicki@metacarta.com> Narrowed-down-by: Michael Itz <mitz@metacarta.com> Tested-by: Joe Malicki <jmalicki@metacarta.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/exec.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/exec.c10
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index b9f1c144b7a1..c5128fbc9165 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1056,28 +1056,24 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(install_exec_creds);
* - the caller must hold current->cred_exec_mutex to protect against
* PTRACE_ATTACH
*/
-void check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct files_struct *files)
+void check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
{
struct task_struct *p = current, *t;
unsigned long flags;
- unsigned n_fs, n_files, n_sighand;
+ unsigned n_fs, n_sighand;
bprm->unsafe = tracehook_unsafe_exec(p);
n_fs = 1;
- n_files = 1;
n_sighand = 1;
lock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
for (t = next_thread(p); t != p; t = next_thread(t)) {
if (t->fs == p->fs)
n_fs++;
- if (t->files == files)
- n_files++;
n_sighand++;
}
if (atomic_read(&p->fs->count) > n_fs ||
- atomic_read(&p->files->count) > n_files ||
atomic_read(&p->sighand->count) > n_sighand)
bprm->unsafe |= LSM_UNSAFE_SHARE;
@@ -1300,7 +1296,7 @@ int do_execve(char * filename,
bprm->cred = prepare_exec_creds();
if (!bprm->cred)
goto out_unlock;
- check_unsafe_exec(bprm, displaced);
+ check_unsafe_exec(bprm);
file = open_exec(filename);
retval = PTR_ERR(file);