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<updated>2020-05-17T15:48:24Z</updated>
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<title>exec: Move would_dump into flush_old_exec</title>
<updated>2020-05-17T15:48:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2020-05-16T21:29:20Z</published>
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I goofed when I added mm-&gt;user_ns support to would_dump.  I missed the
fact that in the case of binfmt_loader, binfmt_em86, binfmt_misc, and
binfmt_script bprm-&gt;file is reassigned.  Which made the move of
would_dump from setup_new_exec to __do_execve_file before exec_binprm
incorrect as it can result in would_dump running on the script instead
of the interpreter of the script.

The net result is that the code stopped making unreadable interpreters
undumpable.  Which allows them to be ptraced and written to disk
without special permissions.  Oops.

The move was necessary because the call in set_new_exec was after
bprm-&gt;mm was no longer valid.

To correct this mistake move the misplaced would_dump from
__do_execve_file into flos_old_exec, before exec_mmap is called.

I tested and confirmed that without this fix I can attach with gdb to
a script with an unreadable interpreter, and with this fix I can not.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f84df2a6f268 ("exec: Ensure mm-&gt;user_ns contains the execed files")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2020-04-02T18:22:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2020-04-02T18:22:17Z</published>
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Pull exec/proc updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This contains two significant pieces of work: the work to sort out
  proc_flush_task, and the work to solve a deadlock between strace and
  exec.

  Fixing proc_flush_task so that it no longer requires a persistent
  mount makes improvements to proc possible. The removal of the
  persistent mount solves an old regression that that caused the hidepid
  mount option to only work on remount not on mount. The regression was
  found and reported by the Android folks. This further allows Alexey
  Gladkov's work making proc mount options specific to an individual
  mount of proc to move forward.

  The work on exec starts solving a long standing issue with exec that
  it takes mutexes of blocking userspace applications, which makes exec
  extremely deadlock prone. For the moment this adds a second mutex with
  a narrower scope that handles all of the easy cases. Which makes the
  tricky cases easy to spot. With a little luck the code to solve those
  deadlocks will be ready by next merge window"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (25 commits)
  signal: Extend exec_id to 64bits
  pidfd: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve
  perf: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve
  proc: io_accounting: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve
  proc: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve
  kernel/kcmp.c: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve
  kernel: doc: remove outdated comment cred.c
  mm: docs: Fix a comment in process_vm_rw_core
  selftests/ptrace: add test cases for dead-locks
  exec: Fix a deadlock in strace
  exec: Add exec_update_mutex to replace cred_guard_mutex
  exec: Move exec_mmap right after de_thread in flush_old_exec
  exec: Move cleanup of posix timers on exec out of de_thread
  exec: Factor unshare_sighand out of de_thread and call it separately
  exec: Only compute current once in flush_old_exec
  pid: Improve the comment about waiting in zap_pid_ns_processes
  proc: Remove the now unnecessary internal mount of proc
  uml: Create a private mount of proc for mconsole
  uml: Don't consult current to find the proc_mnt in mconsole_proc
  proc: Use a list of inodes to flush from proc
  ...
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<title>signal: Extend exec_id to 64bits</title>
<updated>2020-04-01T17:04:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-31T00:01:04Z</published>
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Replace the 32bit exec_id with a 64bit exec_id to make it impossible
to wrap the exec_id counter.  With care an attacker can cause exec_id
wrap and send arbitrary signals to a newly exec'd parent.  This
bypasses the signal sending checks if the parent changes their
credentials during exec.

The severity of this problem can been seen that in my limited testing
of a 32bit exec_id it can take as little as 19s to exec 65536 times.
Which means that it can take as little as 14 days to wrap a 32bit
exec_id.  Adam Zabrocki has succeeded wrapping the self_exe_id in 7
days.  Even my slower timing is in the uptime of a typical server.
Which means self_exec_id is simply a speed bump today, and if exec
gets noticably faster self_exec_id won't even be a speed bump.

Extending self_exec_id to 64bits introduces a problem on 32bit
architectures where reading self_exec_id is no longer atomic and can
take two read instructions.  Which means that is is possible to hit
a window where the read value of exec_id does not match the written
value.  So with very lucky timing after this change this still
remains expoiltable.

I have updated the update of exec_id on exec to use WRITE_ONCE
and the read of exec_id in do_notify_parent to use READ_ONCE
to make it clear that there is no locking between these two
locations.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/20200324215049.GA3710@pi3.com.pl
Fixes: 2.3.23pre2
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>exec: Add exec_update_mutex to replace cred_guard_mutex</title>
<updated>2020-03-25T15:03:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-25T15:03:36Z</published>
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The cred_guard_mutex is problematic as it is held over possibly
indefinite waits for userspace.  The possible indefinite waits for
userspace that I have identified are: The cred_guard_mutex is held in
PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT waiting for the tracer.  The cred_guard_mutex is
held over "put_user(0, tsk-&gt;clear_child_tid)" in exit_mm().  The
cred_guard_mutex is held over "get_user(futex_offset, ...")  in
exit_robust_list.  The cred_guard_mutex held over copy_strings.

The functions get_user and put_user can trigger a page fault which can
potentially wait indefinitely in the case of userfaultfd or if
userspace implements part of the page fault path.

In any of those cases the userspace process that the kernel is waiting
for might make a different system call that winds up taking the
cred_guard_mutex and result in deadlock.

Holding a mutex over any of those possibly indefinite waits for
userspace does not appear necessary.  Add exec_update_mutex that will
just cover updating the process during exec where the permissions and
the objects pointed to by the task struct may be out of sync.

The plan is to switch the users of cred_guard_mutex to
exec_update_mutex one by one.  This lets us move forward while still
being careful and not introducing any regressions.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20160921152946.GA24210@dhcp22.suse.cz/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/AM6PR03MB5170B06F3A2B75EFB98D071AE4E60@AM6PR03MB5170.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20161102181806.GB1112@redhat.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20160923095031.GA14923@redhat.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170213141452.GA30203@redhat.com/
Ref: 45c1a159b85b ("Add PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE and PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT facilities.")
Ref: 456f17cd1a28 ("[PATCH] user-vm-unlock-2.5.31-A2")
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bernd Edlinger &lt;bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>exec: Move exec_mmap right after de_thread in flush_old_exec</title>
<updated>2020-03-25T15:03:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-25T15:03:21Z</published>
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I have read through the code in exec_mmap and I do not see anything
that depends on sighand or the sighand lock, or on signals in anyway
so this should be safe.

This rearrangement of code has two significant benefits.  It makes
the determination of passing the point of no return by testing bprm-&gt;mm
accurate.  All failures prior to that point in flush_old_exec are
either truly recoverable or they are fatal.

Further this consolidates all of the possible indefinite waits for
userspace together at the top of flush_old_exec.  The possible wait
for a ptracer on PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT, the possible wait for a page fault
to be resolved in clear_child_tid, and the possible wait for a page
fault in exit_robust_list.

This consolidation allows the creation of a mutex to replace
cred_guard_mutex that is not held over possible indefinite userspace
waits.  Which will allow removing deadlock scenarios from the kernel.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bernd Edlinger &lt;bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bernd Edlinger &lt;bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>exec: Move cleanup of posix timers on exec out of de_thread</title>
<updated>2020-03-25T15:00:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-25T15:00:38Z</published>
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These functions have very little to do with de_thread move them out
of de_thread an into flush_old_exec proper so it can be more clearly
seen what flush_old_exec is doing.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bernd Edlinger &lt;bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bernd Edlinger &lt;bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>exec: Factor unshare_sighand out of de_thread and call it separately</title>
<updated>2020-03-25T15:00:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-25T15:00:21Z</published>
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This makes the code clearer and makes it easier to implement a mutex
that is not taken over any locations that may block indefinitely waiting
for userspace.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bernd Edlinger &lt;bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bernd Edlinger &lt;bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>exec: Only compute current once in flush_old_exec</title>
<updated>2020-03-25T15:00:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-25T15:00:07Z</published>
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Make it clear that current only needs to be computed once in
flush_old_exec.  This may have some efficiency improvements and it
makes the code easier to change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bernd Edlinger &lt;bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bernd Edlinger &lt;bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: load files from the mount namespace of init</title>
<updated>2020-02-10T23:39:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Topi Miettinen</name>
<email>toiwoton@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-23T12:58:38Z</published>
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I have an experimental setup where almost every possible system
service (even early startup ones) runs in separate namespace, using a
dedicated, minimal file system. In process of minimizing the contents
of the file systems with regards to modules and firmware files, I
noticed that in my system, the firmware files are loaded from three
different mount namespaces, those of systemd-udevd, init and
systemd-networkd. The logic of the source namespace is not very clear,
it seems to depend on the driver, but the namespace of the current
process is used.

So, this patch tries to make things a bit clearer and changes the
loading of firmware files only from the mount namespace of init. This
may also improve security, though I think that using firmware files as
attack vector could be too impractical anyway.

Later, it might make sense to make the mount namespace configurable,
for example with a new file in /proc/sys/kernel/firmware_config/. That
would allow a dedicated file system only for firmware files and those
need not be present anywhere else. This configurability would make
more sense if made also for kernel modules and /sbin/modprobe. Modules
are already loaded from init namespace (usermodehelper uses kthreadd
namespace) except when directly loaded by systemd-udevd.

Instead of using the mount namespace of the current process to load
firmware files, use the mount namespace of init process.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/bb46ebae-4746-90d9-ec5b-fce4c9328c86@gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0e3f7653-c59d-9341-9db2-c88f5b988c68@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Topi Miettinen &lt;toiwoton@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200123125839.37168-1-toiwoton@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2020-01-31T20:16:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-31T20:16:36Z</published>
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Pull updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Most of -mm and quite a number of other subsystems: hotfixes, scripts,
  ocfs2, misc, lib, binfmt, init, reiserfs, exec, dma-mapping, kcov.

  MM is fairly quiet this time.  Holidays, I assume"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (118 commits)
  kcov: ignore fault-inject and stacktrace
  include/linux/io-mapping.h-mapping: use PHYS_PFN() macro in io_mapping_map_atomic_wc()
  execve: warn if process starts with executable stack
  reiserfs: prevent NULL pointer dereference in reiserfs_insert_item()
  init/main.c: fix misleading "This architecture does not have kernel memory protection" message
  init/main.c: fix quoted value handling in unknown_bootoption
  init/main.c: remove unnecessary repair_env_string in do_initcall_level
  init/main.c: log arguments and environment passed to init
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: coredump: allow process with empty address space to coredump
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: coredump: delete duplicated overflow check
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: coredump: allocate core ELF header on stack
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: make BAD_ADDR() unlikely
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: better codegen around current-&gt;mm
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: don't copy ELF header around
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix -&gt;start_code calculation
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: smaller code generation around auxv vector fill
  lib/find_bit.c: uninline helper _find_next_bit()
  lib/find_bit.c: join _find_next_bit{_le}
  uapi: rename ext2_swab() to swab() and share globally in swab.h
  lib/scatterlist.c: adjust indentation in __sg_alloc_table
  ...
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