linux-kernel - Q: check_unsafe_exec() races (Was: [PATCH 2/4] fix setuid sometimes doesn't)

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Date:	Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:53:43 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Joe Malicki <jmalicki@...acarta.com>,
	Michael Itz <mitz@...acarta.com>,
	Kenneth Baker <bakerk@...acarta.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Q: check_unsafe_exec() races (Was: [PATCH 2/4] fix setuid
	sometimes doesn't)

> -void check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct files_struct *files)
> +void check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
>  {
>  	struct task_struct *p = current, *t;
>  	unsigned long flags;
> -	unsigned n_fs, n_files, n_sighand;
> +	unsigned n_fs, n_sighand;
>
>  	bprm->unsafe = tracehook_unsafe_exec(p);
>
>  	n_fs = 1;
> -	n_files = 1;
>  	n_sighand = 1;
>  	lock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
>  	for (t = next_thread(p); t != p; t = next_thread(t)) {
>  		if (t->fs == p->fs)
>  			n_fs++;
> -		if (t->files == files)
> -			n_files++;
>  		n_sighand++;
>  	}
>
>  	if (atomic_read(&p->fs->count) > n_fs ||
> -	    atomic_read(&p->files->count) > n_files ||
>  	    atomic_read(&p->sighand->count) > n_sighand)
>  		bprm->unsafe |= LSM_UNSAFE_SHARE;

Can't find the patch which introduced check_unsafe_exec(), so
I am asking here.

How it is supposed to work?

Let's suppose we have two threads T1 and T2. T1 exits, and calls
exit_fs().

	exit_fs:

		tsk->fs = NULL;
		// WINDOW
		put_fs_struct(fs);

Now, if T2 does exec() and check_unsafe_exec() happens in the WINDOW
above, we set LSM_UNSAFE_SHARE.

Or we can race with sub-thread doing clone(CLONE_FS|CLONE_THREAD),
the new thread is not visible in ->thread_group, buy copy_fs()
can already increment fs->count.


Another question. Why do we check sighand->count? We always unshare
->sighand on exec, see de_thread().


Minor, but why lock_task_sighand() ? This helper is "__must_check".
If it can't fail (yes, it can't fail here), spin_lock_irq(siglock)
is enough. (and given that ->siglock can't help anyway to calculate
n_fs, we could use rcu_read_lock() instead).


(as for these patches, I think they are correct).

Oleg.

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