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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 08:10:54 +0100
commit4fd72a17760fa68385906c58efb9d3ba96488101 (patch)
treef4dd9d66e839207014e4095dae9d3be43ec8f063 /security
parentfa9b170733abf93d888608b8b179b2e3e026d8c0 (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 0309f2111c70..5367f854fadc 100644
--- a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
+++ b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
@@ -359,7 +359,9 @@ 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;