linux-stable.git/fs/proc/base.c, branch linux-5.15.y

fs/procfs: fix the comment above proc_pid_wchan()

2025-04-10T12:32:02+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6287fbad1cd91f0c25cdc3a580499060828a8f30 ]

proc_pid_wchan() used to report kernel addresses to user space but that is
no longer the case today.  Bring the comment above proc_pid_wchan() in
sync with the implementation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250319210222.1518771-1-bvanassche@acm.org
Fixes: b2f73922d119 ("fs/proc, core/debug: Don't expose absolute kernel addresses via wchan")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

proc: add config & param to block forcing mem writes

2024-10-17T13:11:27+00:00

[ Upstream commit 41e8149c8892ed1962bd15350b3c3e6e90cba7f4 ]

This adds a Kconfig option and boot param to allow removing
the FOLL_FORCE flag from /proc/pid/mem write calls because
it can be abused.

The traditional forcing behavior is kept as default because
it can break GDB and some other use cases.

Previously we tried a more sophisticated approach allowing
distributions to fine-tune /proc/pid/mem behavior, however
that got NAK-ed by Linus [1], who prefers this simpler
approach with semantics also easier to understand for users.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiGWLChxYmUA5HrT5aopZrB7_2VTa0NLZcxORgkUe5tEQ@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Cc: Doug Anderson 
Cc: Jeff Xu 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240802080225.89408-1-adrian.ratiu@collabora.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

procfs: block chmod on /proc/thread-self/comm

2023-09-19T10:22:52+00:00

commit ccf61486fe1e1a48e18c638d1813cda77b3c0737 upstream.

Due to an oversight in commit 1b3044e39a89 ("procfs: fix pthread
cross-thread naming if !PR_DUMPABLE") in switching from REG to NOD,
chmod operations on /proc/thread-self/comm were no longer blocked as
they are on almost all other procfs files.

A very similar situation with /proc/self/environ was used to as a root
exploit a long time ago, but procfs has SB_I_NOEXEC so this is simply a
correctness issue.

Ref: https://lwn.net/Articles/191954/
Ref: 6d76fa58b050 ("Don't allow chmod() on the /proc// files")
Fixes: 1b3044e39a89 ("procfs: fix pthread cross-thread naming if !PR_DUMPABLE")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.7+
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai 
Message-Id: <20230713141001.27046-1-cyphar@cyphar.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: fix a dentry lock race between release_task and lookup

2022-08-17T12:24:08+00:00

[ Upstream commit d919a1e79bac890421537cf02ae773007bf55e6b ]

Commit 7bc3e6e55acf06 ("proc: Use a list of inodes to flush from proc")
moved proc_flush_task() behind __exit_signal().  Then, process systemd can
take long period high cpu usage during releasing task in following
concurrent processes:

  systemd                                 ps
kernel_waitid                 stat(/proc/tgid)
  do_wait                       filename_lookup
    wait_consider_task            lookup_fast
      release_task
        __exit_signal
          __unhash_process
            detach_pid
              __change_pid // remove task->pid_links
                                     d_revalidate -> pid_revalidate  // 0
                                     d_invalidate(/proc/tgid)
                                       shrink_dcache_parent(/proc/tgid)
                                         d_walk(/proc/tgid)
                                           spin_lock_nested(/proc/tgid/fd)
                                           // iterating opened fd
        proc_flush_pid                                    |
           d_invalidate (/proc/tgid/fd)                   |
              shrink_dcache_parent(/proc/tgid/fd)         |
                shrink_dentry_list(subdirs)               ↓
                  shrink_lock_dentry(/proc/tgid/fd) --> race on dentry lock

Function d_invalidate() will remove dentry from hash firstly, but why does
proc_flush_pid() process dentry '/proc/tgid/fd' before dentry
'/proc/tgid'?  That's because proc_pid_make_inode() adds proc inode in
reverse order by invoking hlist_add_head_rcu().  But proc should not add
any inodes under '/proc/tgid' except '/proc/tgid/task/pid', fix it by
adding inode into 'pid->inodes' only if the inode is /proc/tgid or
/proc/tgid/task/pid.

Performance regression:
Create 200 tasks, each task open one file for 50,000 times. Kill all
tasks when opened files exceed 10,000,000 (cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr).

Before fix:
$ time killall -wq aa
  real    4m40.946s   # During this period, we can see 'ps' and 'systemd'
			taking high cpu usage.

After fix:
$ time killall -wq aa
  real    1m20.732s   # During this period, we can see 'systemd' taking
			high cpu usage.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220713130029.4133533-1-chengzhihao1@huawei.com
Fixes: 7bc3e6e55acf06 ("proc: Use a list of inodes to flush from proc")
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216054
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng 
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi 
Suggested-by: Brian Foster 
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Eric Biederman 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Baoquan He 
Cc: Kalesh Singh 
Cc: Yu Kuai 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Revert "proc/wchan: use printk format instead of lookup_symbol_name()"

2021-11-12T14:05:48+00:00

commit 54354c6a9f7fd5572d2b9ec108117c4f376d4d23 upstream.

This reverts commit 152c432b128cb043fc107e8f211195fe94b2159c.

When a kernel address couldn't be symbolized for /proc/$pid/wchan, it
would leak the raw value, a potential information exposure. This is a
regression compared to the safer pre-v5.12 behavior.

Reported-by: kernel test robot 
Reported-by: Vito Caputo 
Reported-by: Jann Horn 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211008111626.090829198@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

connector: send event on write to /proc/[pid]/comm

2021-09-08T18:50:25+00:00

While comm change event via prctl has been reported to proc connector by
'commit f786ecba4158 ("connector: add comm change event report to proc
connector")', connector listeners were missing comm changes by explicit
writes on /proc/[pid]/comm.

Let explicit writes on /proc/[pid]/comm report to proc connector.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210701133458epcms1p68e9eb9bd0eee8903ba26679a37d9d960@epcms1p6
Signed-off-by: Ohhoon Kwon 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

procfs: allow reading fdinfo with PTRACE_MODE_READ

2021-07-01T18:06:04+00:00

Android captures per-process system memory state when certain low memory
events (e.g a foreground app kill) occur, to identify potential memory
hoggers.  In order to measure how much memory a process actually consumes,
it is necessary to include the DMA buffer sizes for that process in the
memory accounting.  Since the handle to DMA buffers are raw FDs, it is
important to be able to identify which processes have FD references to a
DMA buffer.

Currently, DMA buffer FDs can be accounted using /proc//fd/* and
/proc//fdinfo -- both are only readable by the process owner, as
follows:

  1. Do a readlink on each FD.
  2. If the target path begins with "/dmabuf", then the FD is a dmabuf FD.
  3. stat the file to get the dmabuf inode number.
  4. Read/ proc//fdinfo/, to get the DMA buffer size.

Accessing other processes' fdinfo requires root privileges.  This limits
the use of the interface to debugging environments and is not suitable for
production builds.  Granting root privileges even to a system process
increases the attack surface and is highly undesirable.

Since fdinfo doesn't permit reading process memory and manipulating
process state, allow accessing fdinfo under PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCRED.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210308170651.919148-1-kaleshsingh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh 
Suggested-by: Jann Horn 
Acked-by: Christian König 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Alexey Gladkov 
Cc: Andrei Vagin 
Cc: Bernd Edlinger 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Hridya Valsaraju 
Cc: James Morris 
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Michel Lespinasse 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: Avoid mixing integer types in mem_rw()

2021-07-01T18:06:04+00:00

Use size_t when capping the count argument received by mem_rw(). Since
count is size_t, using min_t(int, ...) can lead to a negative value
that will later be passed to access_remote_vm(), which can cause
unexpected behavior.

Since we are capping the value to at maximum PAGE_SIZE, the conversion
from size_t to int when passing it to access_remote_vm() as "len"
shouldn't be a problem.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210512125215.3348316-1-marcelo.cerri@canonical.com
Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp 
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Henrique Cerri 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Souza Cascardo 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: Michel Lespinasse 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: only require mm_struct for writing

2021-06-15T17:47:51+00:00

Commit 591a22c14d3f ("proc: Track /proc/$pid/attr/ opener mm_struct") we
started using __mem_open() to track the mm_struct at open-time, so that
we could then check it for writes.

But that also ended up making the permission checks at open time much
stricter - and not just for writes, but for reads too.  And that in turn
caused a regression for at least Fedora 29, where NIC interfaces fail to
start when using NetworkManager.

Since only the write side wanted the mm_struct test, ignore any failures
by __mem_open() at open time, leaving reads unaffected.  The write()
time verification of the mm_struct pointer will then catch the failure
case because a NULL pointer will not match a valid 'current->mm'.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/YMjTlp2FSJYvoyFa@unreal/
Fixes: 591a22c14d3f ("proc: Track /proc/$pid/attr/ opener mm_struct")
Reported-and-tested-by: Leon Romanovsky 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: Andrea Righi 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: Track /proc/$pid/attr/ opener mm_struct

2021-06-08T17:24:09+00:00

Commit bfb819ea20ce ("proc: Check /proc/$pid/attr/ writes against file opener")
tried to make sure that there could not be a confusion between the opener of
a /proc/$pid/attr/ file and the writer. It used struct cred to make sure
the privileges didn't change. However, there were existing cases where a more
privileged thread was passing the opened fd to a differently privileged thread
(during container setup). Instead, use mm_struct to track whether the opener
and writer are still the same process. (This is what several other proc files
already do, though for different reasons.)

Reported-by: Christian Brauner 
Reported-by: Andrea Righi 
Tested-by: Andrea Righi 
Fixes: bfb819ea20ce ("proc: Check /proc/$pid/attr/ writes against file opener")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds