linux-stable.git/arch/um/drivers, branch linux-3.12.y

um: Stop abusing KERNEL

2016-07-21T06:36:15+00:00

commit 298e20ba8c197e8d429a6c8671550c41c7919033 upstream.

Currently UML is abusing __KERNEL__ to distinguish between
kernel and host code (os-Linux). It is better to use a custom
define such that existing users of __KERNEL__ don't get confused.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

fs/coredump: prevent fsuid=0 dumps into user-controlled directories

2016-04-11T14:44:20+00:00

commit 378c6520e7d29280f400ef2ceaf155c86f05a71a upstream.

This commit fixes the following security hole affecting systems where
all of the following conditions are fulfilled:

 - The fs.suid_dumpable sysctl is set to 2.
 - The kernel.core_pattern sysctl's value starts with "/". (Systems
   where kernel.core_pattern starts with "|/" are not affected.)
 - Unprivileged user namespace creation is permitted. (This is
   true on Linux >=3.8, but some distributions disallow it by
   default using a distro patch.)

Under these conditions, if a program executes under secure exec rules,
causing it to run with the SUID_DUMP_ROOT flag, then unshares its user
namespace, changes its root directory and crashes, the coredump will be
written using fsuid=0 and a path derived from kernel.core_pattern - but
this path is interpreted relative to the root directory of the process,
allowing the attacker to control where a coredump will be written with
root privileges.

To fix the security issue, always interpret core_pattern for dumps that
are written under SUID_DUMP_ROOT relative to the root directory of init.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

um: ubd: Fix for processes stuck in D state forever

2014-11-13T18:02:16+00:00

commit 2a2361228c5e6d8c1733f00653481de918598e50 upstream.

Starting with Linux 3.12 processes get stuck in D state forever in
UserModeLinux under sync heavy workloads. This bug was introduced by
commit 805f11a0d5 (um: ubd: Add REQ_FLUSH suppport).
Fix bug by adding a check if FLUSH request was successfully submitted to
the I/O thread and keeping the FLUSH request on the request queue on
submission failures.

Fixes: 805f11a0d5 (um: ubd: Add REQ_FLUSH suppport)
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Knabe 
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

um: Cleanup SIGTERM handling

2013-09-07T08:56:58+00:00

Richard reported that some UML processes survive if the UML
main process receives a SIGTERM.
This issue was caused by a wrongly placed signal(SIGTERM, SIG_DFL)
in init_new_thread_signals().
It disabled the UML exit handler accidently for some processes.
The correct solution is to disable the fatal handler for all
UML helper threads/processes.
Such that last_ditch_exit() does not get called multiple times
and all processes can exit due to SIGTERM.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones 
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

um: ubd: Introduce submit_request()

2013-09-07T08:56:55+00:00

Just a clean-up patch to remove the open coded
variants and to ensure that all requests are submitted the
same way.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

um: ubd: Add REQ_FLUSH suppport

2013-09-07T08:56:49+00:00

UML's block device driver does not support write barriers,
to support this this patch adds REQ_FLUSH suppport.
Every time the block layer sends a REQ_FLUSH we fsync() now
our backing file to guarantee data consistency.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones 
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

mconsole: we'd better initialize pos before passing it to vfs_read()...

2013-06-19T08:37:57+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

block_device_operations->release() should return void

2013-05-07T06:16:21+00:00

The value passed is 0 in all but "it can never happen" cases (and those
only in a couple of drivers) *and* it would've been lost on the way
out anyway, even if something tried to pass something meaningful.
Just don't bother.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2013-05-02T00:51:54+00:00

Pull VFS updates from Al Viro,

Misc cleanups all over the place, mainly wrt /proc interfaces (switch
create_proc_entry to proc_create(), get rid of the deprecated
create_proc_read_entry() in favor of using proc_create_data() and
seq_file etc).

7kloc removed.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (204 commits)
  don't bother with deferred freeing of fdtables
  proc: Move non-public stuff from linux/proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h
  proc: Make the PROC_I() and PDE() macros internal to procfs
  proc: Supply a function to remove a proc entry by PDE
  take cgroup_open() and cpuset_open() to fs/proc/base.c
  ppc: Clean up scanlog
  ppc: Clean up rtas_flash driver somewhat
  hostap: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use minor->index to label things, not PDE->name
  drm: Constify drm_proc_list[]
  zoran: Don't print proc_dir_entry data in debug
  reiserfs: Don't access the proc_dir_entry in r_open(), r_start() r_show()
  proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent
  airo: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  rtl8192u: Don't need to save device proc dir PDE
  rtl8187se: Use a dir under /proc/net/r8180/
  proc: Add proc_mkdir_data()
  proc: Move some bits from linux/proc_fs.h to linux/{of.h,signal.h,tty.h}
  proc: Move PDE_NET() to fs/proc/proc_net.c
  ...

UM: Adjust printk in create_proc_mconsole()

2013-04-09T18:16:38+00:00

Adjust printk in create_proc_mconsole() to reflect it is now using
proc_create() not create_proc_mconsole().

Signed-off-by: David Howells