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Message-Id: <1448921354-8647-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:09:14 -0800
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Subject: [3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "fs/proc, core/debug: Don't expose absolute kernel addresses via wchan" has been added to staging queue

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

    fs/proc, core/debug: Don't expose absolute kernel addresses via wchan

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt11.

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

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

------

>From 6936b2c583cd6dcf8850e1e8b9d3e8d02743aacf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:59:17 +0200
Subject: fs/proc, core/debug: Don't expose absolute kernel addresses via wchan

commit b2f73922d119686323f14fbbe46587f863852328 upstream.

So the /proc/PID/stat 'wchan' field (the 30th field, which contains
the absolute kernel address of the kernel function a task is blocked in)
leaks absolute kernel addresses to unprivileged user-space:

        seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', wchan);

The absolute address might also leak via /proc/PID/wchan as well, if
KALLSYMS is turned off or if the symbol lookup fails for some reason:

static int proc_pid_wchan(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
                          struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task)
{
        unsigned long wchan;
        char symname[KSYM_NAME_LEN];

        wchan = get_wchan(task);

        if (lookup_symbol_name(wchan, symname) < 0) {
                if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ))
                        return 0;
                seq_printf(m, "%lu", wchan);
        } else {
                seq_printf(m, "%s", symname);
        }

        return 0;
}

This isn't ideal, because for example it trivially leaks the KASLR offset
to any local attacker:

  fomalhaut:~> printf "%016lx\n" $(cat /proc/$$/stat | cut -d' ' -f35)
  ffffffff8123b380

Most real-life uses of wchan are symbolic:

  ps -eo pid:10,tid:10,wchan:30,comm

and procps uses /proc/PID/wchan, not the absolute address in /proc/PID/stat:

  triton:~/tip> strace -f ps -eo pid:10,tid:10,wchan:30,comm 2>&1 | grep wchan | tail -1
  open("/proc/30833/wchan", O_RDONLY)     = 6

There's one compatibility quirk here: procps relies on whether the
absolute value is non-zero - and we can provide that functionality
by outputing "0" or "1" depending on whether the task is blocked
(whether there's a wchan address).

These days there appears to be very little legitimate reason
user-space would be interested in  the absolute address. The
absolute address is mostly historic: from the days when we
didn't have kallsyms and user-space procps had to do the
decoding itself via the System.map.

So this patch sets all numeric output to "0" or "1" and keeps only
symbolic output, in /proc/PID/wchan.

( The absolute sleep address can generally still be profiled via
  perf, by tasks with sufficient privileges. )

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Cc: kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150930135917.GA3285@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
[ kamal: backport to 3.19-stable: proc_pid_wchan context ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt |  5 +++--
 fs/proc/array.c                    | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 fs/proc/base.c                     | 11 +++++------
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index aae9dd1..a04b51b 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /proc
  stat		Process status
  statm		Process memory status information
  status		Process status in human readable form
- wchan		If CONFIG_KALLSYMS is set, a pre-decoded wchan
+ wchan		Present with CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y: it shows the kernel function
+		symbol the task is blocked in - or "0" if not blocked.
  pagemap	Page table
  stack		Report full stack trace, enable via CONFIG_STACKTRACE
  smaps		a extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption of
@@ -301,7 +302,7 @@ Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.30-rc7)
   blocked       bitmap of blocked signals
   sigign        bitmap of ignored signals
   sigcatch      bitmap of caught signals
-  wchan         address where process went to sleep
+  0		(place holder, used to be the wchan address, use /proc/PID/wchan instead)
   0             (place holder)
   0             (place holder)
   exit_signal   signal to send to parent thread on exit
diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
index bd117d0..4739054 100644
--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ int proc_pid_status(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 			struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task, int whole)
 {
-	unsigned long vsize, eip, esp, wchan = ~0UL;
+	unsigned long vsize, eip, esp, wchan = 0;
 	int priority, nice;
 	int tty_pgrp = -1, tty_nr = 0;
 	sigset_t sigign, sigcatch;
@@ -500,7 +500,19 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', task->blocked.sig[0] & 0x7fffffffUL);
 	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', sigign.sig[0] & 0x7fffffffUL);
 	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', sigcatch.sig[0] & 0x7fffffffUL);
-	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', wchan);
+
+	/*
+	 * We used to output the absolute kernel address, but that's an
+	 * information leak - so instead we show a 0/1 flag here, to signal
+	 * to user-space whether there's a wchan field in /proc/PID/wchan.
+	 *
+	 * This works with older implementations of procps as well.
+	 */
+	if (wchan)
+		seq_puts(m, " 1");
+	else
+		seq_puts(m, " 0");
+
 	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', 0);
 	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', 0);
 	seq_put_decimal_ll(m, ' ', task->exit_signal);
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 3f3d7ae..89b6904 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -238,13 +238,12 @@ static int proc_pid_wchan(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,

 	wchan = get_wchan(task);

-	if (lookup_symbol_name(wchan, symname) < 0)
-		if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ))
-			return 0;
-		else
-			return seq_printf(m, "%lu", wchan);
+	if (wchan && ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ) && !lookup_symbol_name(wchan, symname))
+		seq_printf(m, "%s", symname);
 	else
-		return seq_printf(m, "%s", symname);
+		seq_putc(m, '0');
+
+	return 0;
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_KALLSYMS */

--
1.9.1

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