linux-stable.git/fs/proc/base.c, branch linux-2.6.35.y

proc: restrict access to /proc/PID/io

2011-08-01T20:54:59+00:00

[ upstream commit 1d1221f375c94ef961ba8574ac4f85c8870ddd51 ]

/proc/PID/io may be used for gathering private information.  E.g.  for
openssh and vsftpd daemons wchars/rchars may be used to learn the
precise password length.  Restrict it to processes being able to ptrace
the target process.

ptrace_may_access() is needed to prevent keeping open file descriptor of
"io" file, executing setuid binary and gathering io information of the
setuid'ed process.

Said to be CVE-2011-2495

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen

proc: do proper range check on readdir offset

2011-04-28T15:21:08+00:00

commit d8bdc59f215e62098bc5b4256fd9928bf27053a1 upstream.

Rather than pass in some random truncated offset to the pid-related
functions, check that the offset is in range up-front.

This is just cleanup, the previous commit fixed the real problem.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen

proc: cleanup: remove unused assignments

2010-05-27T16:12:47+00:00

I removed 3 unused assignments.  The first two get reset on the first
statement of their functions.  For "err" in root.c we don't return an
error and we don't use the variable again.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn 
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: get_nr_threads() doesn't need ->siglock any longer

2010-05-27T16:12:47+00:00

Now that task->signal can't go away get_nr_threads() doesn't need
->siglock to read signal->count.

Also, make it inline, move into sched.h, and convert 2 other proc users of
signal->count to use this (now trivial) helper.

Henceforth get_nr_threads() is the only valid user of signal->count, we
are ready to turn it into "int nr_threads" or, perhaps, kill it.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Acked-by: Roland McGrath 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'bkl/procfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing

2010-05-20T00:23:28+00:00

* 'bkl/procfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing:
  sunrpc: Include missing smp_lock.h
  procfs: Kill the bkl in ioctl
  procfs: Push down the bkl from ioctl
  procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/vmcore
  procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kmsg
  procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kcore
  procfs: Kill BKL in llseek on proc base

procfs: fix tid fdinfo

2010-04-27T23:26:03+00:00

Correct the file_operations struct in fdinfo entry of tid_base_stuff[].

Presently /proc/*/task/*/fdinfo contains symlinks to opened files like
/proc/*/fd/.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

procfs: Kill BKL in llseek on proc base

2010-04-09T14:29:12+00:00

We don't use the BKL elsewhere, so use generic_file_llseek
so we can avoid default_llseek taking the BKL.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
[restore proc_fdinfo_file_operations as non-seekable]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: John Kacur 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Al Viro

Merge branch 'master' into export-slabh

2010-04-05T02:37:28+00:00

oom: fix the unsafe usage of badness() in proc_oom_score()

2010-04-01T15:50:21+00:00

proc_oom_score(task) has a reference to task_struct, but that is all.
If this task was already released before we take tasklist_lock

	- we can't use task->group_leader, it points to nowhere

	- it is not safe to call badness() even if this task is
	  ->group_leader, has_intersects_mems_allowed() assumes
	  it is safe to iterate over ->thread_group list.

	- even worse, badness() can hit ->signal == NULL

Add the pid_alive() check to ensure __unhash_process() was not called.

Also, use "task" instead of task->group_leader. badness() should return
the same result for any sub-thread. Currently this is not true, but
this should be changed anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn