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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2019-01-16 10:31:09 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-01-23 08:09:48 +0100
commit41c13bfcc4cdeac537c060a5156a688c69d9c6a5 (patch)
tree48a437fa5a2f166c521692de7e06d06ffdd7d2cd /security
parentf97fd2926eed63bd5141261e00f027b2ba3b6661 (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 8298e094f4f7..7d5541c6a225 100644
--- a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
+++ b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
@@ -373,7 +373,9 @@ 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;