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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2015-08-10 17:35:07 -0500 |
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| committer | Moyster <oysterized@gmail.com> | 2016-08-26 20:01:53 +0200 |
| commit | b2605e8fee221d8f6ad6c4300e03ecbfe88b75ad (patch) | |
| tree | eb2481692e1e0f4703bae742875125fd327f1b8e /kernel/workqueue_internal.h | |
| parent | 224f325dc1cb14f906ffe526fa7b40560924b523 (diff) | |
unshare: Unsharing a thread does not require unsharing a vm
commit 12c641ab8270f787dfcce08b5f20ce8b65008096 upstream.
In the logic in the initial commit of unshare made creating a new
thread group for a process, contingent upon creating a new memory
address space for that process. That is wrong. Two separate
processes in different thread groups can share a memory address space
and clone allows creation of such proceses.
This is significant because it was observed that mm_users > 1 does not
mean that a process is multi-threaded, as reading /proc/PID/maps
temporarily increments mm_users, which allows other processes to
(accidentally) interfere with unshare() calls.
Correct the check in check_unshare_flags() to test for
!thread_group_empty() for CLONE_THREAD, CLONE_SIGHAND, and CLONE_VM.
For sighand->count > 1 for CLONE_SIGHAND and CLONE_VM.
For !current_is_single_threaded instead of mm_users > 1 for CLONE_VM.
By using the correct checks in unshare this removes the possibility of
an accidental denial of service attack.
Additionally using the correct checks in unshare ensures that only an
explicit unshare(CLONE_VM) can possibly trigger the slow path of
current_is_single_threaded(). As an explict unshare(CLONE_VM) is
pointless it is not expected there are many applications that make
that call.
Fixes: b2e0d98705e60e45bbb3c0032c48824ad7ae0704 userns: Implement unshare of the user namespace
Reported-by: Ricky Zhou <rickyz@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Guendhoer <stefan@guendhoer.com>
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