From 518f98e390771c9f9bc578e0e6423b9708be2d9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suren Baghdasaryan Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:08:06 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm/madvise: replace ptrace attach requirement for process_madvise commit 96cfe2c0fd23ea7c2368d14f769d287e7ae1082e upstream. process_madvise currently requires ptrace attach capability. PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH gives one process complete control over another process. It effectively removes the security boundary between the two processes (in one direction). Granting ptrace attach capability even to a system process is considered dangerous since it creates an attack surface. This severely limits the usage of this API. The operations process_madvise can perform do not affect the correctness of the operation of the target process; they only affect where the data is physically located (and therefore, how fast it can be accessed). What we want is the ability for one process to influence another process in order to optimize performance across the entire system while leaving the security boundary intact. Replace PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH with a combination of PTRACE_MODE_READ and CAP_SYS_NICE. PTRACE_MODE_READ to prevent leaking ASLR metadata and CAP_SYS_NICE for influencing process performance. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210303185807.2160264-1-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Minchan Kim Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tim Murray Cc: Florian Weimer Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: James Morris Cc: [5.10+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/madvise.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 9abf4c5f2bce..24abc79f8914 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -1202,12 +1202,22 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(process_madvise, int, pidfd, const struct iovec __user *, vec, goto release_task; } - mm = mm_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS); + /* Require PTRACE_MODE_READ to avoid leaking ASLR metadata. */ + mm = mm_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS); if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mm)) { ret = IS_ERR(mm) ? PTR_ERR(mm) : -ESRCH; goto release_task; } + /* + * Require CAP_SYS_NICE for influencing process performance. Note that + * only non-destructive hints are currently supported. + */ + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) { + ret = -EPERM; + goto release_mm; + } + total_len = iov_iter_count(&iter); while (iov_iter_count(&iter)) { @@ -1222,6 +1232,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(process_madvise, int, pidfd, const struct iovec __user *, vec, if (ret == 0) ret = total_len - iov_iter_count(&iter); +release_mm: mmput(mm); release_task: put_task_struct(task);