[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "proc: actually make proc_fd_permission() thread-friendly" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Nov 30 12:33:42 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    proc: actually make proc_fd_permission() thread-friendly

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt21.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

------

>From c26d8b314300b7e8d6b8b04df566992663c982df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 16:30:06 -0800
Subject: proc: actually make proc_fd_permission() thread-friendly

commit 54708d2858e79a2bdda10bf8a20c80eb96c20613 upstream.

The commit 96d0df79f264 ("proc: make proc_fd_permission() thread-friendly")
fixed the access to /proc/self/fd from sub-threads, but introduced another
problem: a sub-thread can't access /proc/<tid>/fd/ or /proc/thread-self/fd
if generic_permission() fails.

Change proc_fd_permission() to check same_thread_group(pid_task(), current).

Fixes: 96d0df79f264 ("proc: make proc_fd_permission() thread-friendly")
Reported-by: "Jin, Yihua" <yihua.jin at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/proc/fd.c | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/fd.c b/fs/proc/fd.c
index 0788d093f5d8..f1073ea64b41 100644
--- a/fs/proc/fd.c
+++ b/fs/proc/fd.c
@@ -285,11 +285,19 @@ static struct dentry *proc_lookupfd(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
  */
 int proc_fd_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 {
-	int rv = generic_permission(inode, mask);
+	struct task_struct *p;
+	int rv;
+
+	rv = generic_permission(inode, mask);
 	if (rv == 0)
-		return 0;
-	if (task_tgid(current) == proc_pid(inode))
+		return rv;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	p = pid_task(proc_pid(inode), PIDTYPE_PID);
+	if (p && same_thread_group(p, current))
 		rv = 0;
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
 	return rv;
 }





More information about the kernel-team mailing list