linux-kernel - [ 097/117] pidns: fix vfork() after unshare(CLONE

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Date:	Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:19:23 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Colin Walters <walters@...hat.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [ 097/117] pidns: fix vfork() after unshare(CLONE_NEWPID)

3.11-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

commit e79f525e99b04390ca4d2366309545a836c03bf1 upstream.

Commit 8382fcac1b81 ("pidns: Outlaw thread creation after
unshare(CLONE_NEWPID)") nacks CLONE_VM if the forking process unshared
pid_ns, this obviously breaks vfork:

	int main(void)
	{
		assert(unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWPID) == 0);
		assert(vfork() >= 0);
		_exit(0);
		return 0;
	}

fails without this patch.

Change this check to use CLONE_SIGHAND instead.  This also forbids
CLONE_THREAD automatically, and this is what the comment implies.

We could probably even drop CLONE_SIGHAND and use CLONE_THREAD, but it
would be safer to not do this.  The current check denies CLONE_SIGHAND
implicitely and there is no reason to change this.

Eric said "CLONE_SIGHAND is fine.  CLONE_THREAD would be even better.
Having shared signal handling between two different pid namespaces is
the case that we are fundamentally guarding against."

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Reported-by: Colin Walters <walters@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/fork.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1173,10 +1173,11 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

 	/*
-	 * If the new process will be in a different pid namespace
-	 * don't allow the creation of threads.
+	 * If the new process will be in a different pid namespace don't
+	 * allow it to share a thread group or signal handlers with the
+	 * forking task.
 	 */
-	if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_VM|CLONE_NEWPID)) &&
+	if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_NEWPID)) &&
 	    (task_active_pid_ns(current) !=
 	     current->nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

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