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

um: Remove copy&paste code from init.h

2016-07-22T08:17:00+00:00

commit 30b11ee9ae23d78de66b9ae315880af17a64ba83 upstream.

As we got rid of the __KERNEL__ abuse, we can directly
include linux/compiler.h now.
This also allows gcc 5 to build UML.

Reported-by: Hans-Werner Hilse 
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

um: Fix out-of-tree build

2016-07-22T08:16:59+00:00

commit 0b5aedfe0e6654ec54f35109e1929a1cf7fc4cdd upstream.

Commit 30b11ee9a (um: Remove copy&paste code from init.h)
uncovered an issue wrt. out-of-tree builds.
For out-of-tree builds, we must not rely on relative paths.
Before 30b11ee9a it worked by chance as no host code included
generated header files.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

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

uml: flush stdout before forking

2016-03-03T11:46:01+00:00

commit 0754fb298f2f2719f0393491d010d46cfb25d043 upstream.

I was seeing some really weird behaviour where piping UML's output
somewhere would cause output to get duplicated:

  $ ./vmlinux | head -n 40
  Checking that ptrace can change system call numbers...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Checking syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Checking advanced syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE

This is because these tests do a fork() which duplicates the non-empty
stdout buffer, then glibc flushes the duplicated buffer as each child
exits.

A simple workaround is to flush before forking.

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

vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support

2015-03-12T16:31:25+00:00

commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream.

The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai 
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

um: Skip futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() test

2015-01-29T14:44:47+00:00

commit f911d731054ab3d82ee72a16b889e17ca3a2332a upstream.

futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() does not work on UML because
it triggers a copy_from_user() in kernel context.
On UML copy_from_user() can only be used if the kernel was called
by a real user space process such that UML can use ptrace()
to fetch the value.

Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 
Tested-by: Daniel Walter 
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

uml: check length in exitcode_proc_write()

2013-10-30T19:24:49+00:00

We don't cap the size of buffer from the user so we could write past the
end of the array here.  Only root can write to this file.

Reported-by: Nico Golde 
Reported-by: Fabian Yamaguchi 
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option

2013-09-13T13:09:52+00:00

After the last architecture switched to generic hard irqs the config
options HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS & GENERIC_HARDIRQS and the related code
for !CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky