When opening a file for exec via do_filp_open(), permission checking is done against the file's metadata at that moment, and on success, a file pointer is passed back. Much later in the execve() code path, the file metadata (specifically mode, uid, and gid) is used to determine if/how to set the uid and gid. However, those values may have changed since the permissions check, meaning the execution may gain unintended privileges. For example, if a file could change permissions from executable and not set-id: ---------x 1 root root 16048 Aug 7 13:16 target to set-id and non-executable: ---S------ 1 root root 16048 Aug 7 13:16 target it is possible to gain root privileges when execution should have been disallowed. While this race condition is rare in real-world scenarios, it has been observed (and proven exploitable) when package managers are updating the setuid bits of installed programs. Such files start with being world-executable but then are adjusted to be group-exec with a set-uid bit. For example, "chmod o-x,u+s target" makes "target" executable only by uid "root" and gid "cdrom", while also becoming setuid-root: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root cdrom 16048 Aug 7 13:16 target becomes: -rwsr-xr-- 1 root cdrom 16048 Aug 7 13:16 target But racing the chmod means users without group "cdrom" membership can get the permission to execute "target" just before the chmod, and when the chmod finishes, the exec reaches brpm_fill_uid(), and performs the setuid to root, violating the expressed authorization of "only cdrom group members can setuid to root". Re-check that we still have execute permissions in case the metadata has changed. It would be better to keep a copy from the perm-check time, but until we can do that refactoring, the least-bad option is to do a full inode_permission() call (under inode lock). It is understood that this is safe against dead-locks, but hardly optimal. Reported-by: Marco Vanotti <mvanotti@google.com> Tested-by: Marco Vanotti <mvanotti@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.
This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:
```
virtual patch
@r1@
identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
@r2@
identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{ ... }
@r3@
identifier func;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
@r4@
identifier func, ctl;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
@r5@
identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
```
* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
adjusted.
* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
proc_handler migration.
Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Pull execve fix from Kees Cook: "This moves the exec and binfmt_elf tests out of your way and into the tests/ subdirectory, following the newly ratified KUnit naming conventions. :)" * tag 'execve-v6.11-rc1-fix1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: execve: Move KUnit tests to tests/ subdirectory
Move the exec KUnit tests into a separate directory to avoid polluting the local directory namespace. Additionally update MAINTAINERS for the new files. Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240720170310.it.942-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Pull execve updates from Kees Cook: - Use value of kernel.randomize_va_space once per exec (Alexey Dobriyan) - Honor PT_LOAD alignment for static PIE - Make bprm->argmin only visible under CONFIG_MMU - Add KUnit testing of bprm_stack_limits() * tag 'execve-v6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: exec: Avoid pathological argc, envc, and bprm->p values execve: Keep bprm->argmin behind CONFIG_MMU ELF: fix kernel.randomize_va_space double read exec: Add KUnit test for bprm_stack_limits() binfmt_elf: Honor PT_LOAD alignment for static PIE binfmt_elf: Calculate total_size earlier selftests/exec: Build both static and non-static load_address tests
Make sure nothing goes wrong with the string counters or the bprm's belief about the stack pointer. Add checks and matching self-tests. Take special care for !CONFIG_MMU, since argmin is not exposed there. For 32-bit validation, 32-bit UML was used: $ tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run \ --make_options CROSS_COMPILE=i686-linux-gnu- \ --make_options SUBARCH=i386 \ exec For !MMU validation, m68k was used: $ tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run \ --arch m68k --make_option CROSS_COMPILE=m68k-linux-gnu- \ exec Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240520021615.741800-2-keescook@chromium.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240621205046.4001362-2-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
When argmin was added in commit 655c16a8ce9c ("exec: separate
MM_ANONPAGES and RLIMIT_STACK accounting"), it was intended only for
validating stack limits on CONFIG_MMU[1]. All checking for reaching the
limit (argmin) is wrapped in CONFIG_MMU ifdef checks, though setting
argmin was not. That argmin is only supposed to be used under CONFIG_MMU
was rediscovered recently[2], and I don't want to trip over this again.
Move argmin's declaration into the existing CONFIG_MMU area, and add
helpers functions so the MMU tests can be consolidated.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20181126122307.GA1660@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202406211253.7037F69@keescook/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240621205046.4001362-1-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Since bprm_stack_limits() operates with very limited side-effects, add it as the first exec.c KUnit test. Add to Kconfig and adjust MAINTAINERS file to include it. Tested on 64-bit UML: $ tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run exec Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240520021615.741800-1-keescook@chromium.org/ Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Back in 2021 we already discussed removing deny_write_access() for
executables. Back then I was hesistant because I thought that this might
cause issues in userspace. But even back then I had started taking some
notes on what could potentially depend on this and I didn't come up with
a lot so I've changed my mind and I would like to try this.
Here are some of the notes that I took:
(1) The deny_write_access() mechanism is causing really pointless issues
such as [1]. If a thread in a thread-group opens a file writable,
then writes some stuff, then closing the file descriptor and then
calling execve() they can fail the execve() with ETXTBUSY because
another thread in the thread-group could have concurrently called
fork(). Multi-threaded libraries such as go suffer from this.
(2) There are userspace attacks that rely on overwriting the binary of a
running process. These attacks are _mitigated_ but _not at all
prevented_ from ocurring by the deny_write_access() mechanism.
I'll go over some details. The clearest example of such attacks was
the attack against runC in CVE-2019-5736 (cf. [3]).
An attack could compromise the runC host binary from inside a
_privileged_ runC container. The malicious binary could then be used
to take over the host.
(It is crucial to note that this attack is _not_ possible with
unprivileged containers. IOW, the setup here is already insecure.)
The attack can be made when attaching to a running container or when
starting a container running a specially crafted image. For example,
when runC attaches to a container the attacker can trick it into
executing itself.
This could be done by replacing the target binary inside the
container with a custom binary pointing back at the runC binary
itself. As an example, if the target binary was /bin/bash, this
could be replaced with an executable script specifying the
interpreter path #!/proc/self/exe.
As such when /bin/bash is executed inside the container, instead the
target of /proc/self/exe will be executed. That magic link will
point to the runc binary on the host. The attacker can then proceed
to write to the target of /proc/self/exe to try and overwrite the
runC binary on the host.
However, this will not succeed because of deny_write_access(). Now,
one might think that this would prevent the attack but it doesn't.
To overcome this, the attacker has multiple ways:
* Open a file descriptor to /proc/self/exe using the O_PATH flag and
then proceed to reopen the binary as O_WRONLY through
/proc/self/fd/<nr> and try to write to it in a busy loop from a
separate process. Ultimately it will succeed when the runC binary
exits. After this the runC binary is compromised and can be used
to attack other containers or the host itself.
* Use a malicious shared library annotating a function in there with
the constructor attribute making the malicious function run as an
initializor. The malicious library will then open /proc/self/exe
for creating a new entry under /proc/self/fd/<nr>. It'll then call
exec to a) force runC to exit and b) hand the file descriptor off
to a program that then reopens /proc/self/fd/<nr> for writing
(which is now possible because runC has exited) and overwriting
that binary.
To sum up: the deny_write_access() mechanism doesn't prevent such
attacks in insecure setups. It just makes them minimally harder.
That's all.
The only way back then to prevent this is to create a temporary copy
of the calling binary itself when it starts or attaches to
containers. So what I did back then for LXC (and Aleksa for runC)
was to create an anonymous, in-memory file using the memfd_create()
system call and to copy itself into the temporary in-memory file,
which is then sealed to prevent further modifications. This sealed,
in-memory file copy is then executed instead of the original on-disk
binary.
Any compromising write operations from a privileged container to the
host binary will then write to the temporary in-memory binary and
not to the host binary on-disk, preserving the integrity of the host
binary. Also as the temporary, in-memory binary is sealed, writes to
this will also fail.
The point is that deny_write_access() is uselss to prevent these
attacks.
(3) Denying write access to an inode because it's currently used in an
exec path could easily be done on an LSM level. It might need an
additional hook but that should be about it.
(4) The MAP_DENYWRITE flag for mmap() has been deprecated a long time
ago so while we do protect the main executable the bigger portion of
the things you'd think need protecting such as the shared libraries
aren't. IOW, we let anyone happily overwrite shared libraries.
(5) We removed all remaining uses of VM_DENYWRITE in [2]. That means:
(5.1) We removed the legacy uselib() protection for preventing
overwriting of shared libraries. Nobody cared in 3 years.
(5.2) We allow write access to the elf interpreter after exec
completed treating it on a par with shared libraries.
Yes, someone in userspace could potentially be relying on this. It's not
completely out of the realm of possibility but let's find out if that's
actually the case and not guess.
Link: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/22315 [1]
Link: 49624efa65ac ("Merge tag 'denywrite-for-5.15' of git://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux") [2]
Link: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/breaking-docker-via-runc-explaining-cve-2019-5736 [3]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/866493
Link: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/22220
Link: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/5bf8c0cf09ee5c7e5a37ab90afcce154ab716a97/src/cmd/go/internal/work/buildid.go#L724
Link: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/5bf8c0cf09ee5c7e5a37ab90afcce154ab716a97/src/cmd/go/internal/work/exec.go#L1493
Link: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/5bf8c0cf09ee5c7e5a37ab90afcce154ab716a97/src/cmd/go/internal/script/cmds.go#L457
Link: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/5bf8c0cf09ee5c7e5a37ab90afcce154ab716a97/src/cmd/go/internal/test/test.go#L1557
Link: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/5bf8c0cf09ee5c7e5a37ab90afcce154ab716a97/src/os/exec/lp_linux_test.go#L61
Link: https://github.com/buildkite/agent/pull/2736
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/114554
Link: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8068370
Link: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/58964
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240531-vfs-i_writecount-v1-1-a17bea7ee36b@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:
"The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM,
documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs.
Notable series include:
- Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/
maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge()
API".
- In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with
MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's
MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in
one test.
- In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and
Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via
/proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being
allocated: number of calls and amount of memory.
- Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM
patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in
largely similar code sites.
- In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene"
Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of
migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction
efficiency.
- In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent"
Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should
improve hugetlb allocation reliability.
- Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a
memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when
memory almost met memcg limit".
- In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting"
Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10%
performance improvement in one test.
- Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone
initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor
free_area_init_core()".
- Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series
"mm/init: minor clean up and improvement".
- MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove
follow_pfn".
- More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various
page->flags cleanups".
- Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the
series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring".
- More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series:
"Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio"
"khugepaged folio conversions"
"Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers"
"Use folio APIs in procfs"
"Clean up __folio_put()"
"Some cleanups for memory-failure"
"Remove page_mapping()"
"More folio compat code removal"
- David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert
hugetlb functions to work on folis".
- Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of
hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2".
- Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the
series "Cover a guard gap corner case".
- Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the
series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl".
- Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs.
This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is
"support multi-size THP numa balancing".
- Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in
the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address".
- Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series
"selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes".
- Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts
in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting".
- Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's
permission page faults in the series
"arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess"
"mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS"
- GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call
it GUP-fast".
- hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault
path to use struct vm_fault".
- selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix
selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"".
- Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the
series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes".
Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different
memory types works as intended.
- David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant
driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn
follow_pte() fixes".
- David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his
series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups".
- Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to
folio in KSM".
- Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size
THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout
counters".
- Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap
same-filled and limit checking cleanups".
- Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the
documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head
documentation".
- Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His
series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free"
optimizes the freeing of these things.
- Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback
instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback".
- Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series
"Fix and cleanups to page-writeback".
- Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in
the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's
test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test.
- SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series
"mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck"
"selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test"
- Also some maintenance work in the series
"mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout"
"mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements"
- David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the
series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as
XFAIL".
- memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg:
reduce memory consumption by memcg stats".
- DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series
"dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking""
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits)
memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order
selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime
mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp
mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault
selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path
mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool
mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value
mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED
selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller
Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree
Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT
Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file
selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None'
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads
mm/damon/core: initialize ->esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv()
selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal
...