linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: add LSM hook for writes to readonly memory

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Message-ID: <20161103022540.GI8196@pc.thejh.net>
Date:   Thu, 3 Nov 2016 03:25:40 +0100
From:   Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:     "security@...nel.org" <security@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
        Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
        James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Nick Kralevich <nnk@...gle.com>,
        Janis Danisevskis <jdanis@...gle.com>,
        LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: add LSM hook for writes to readonly memory

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 01:32:56AM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:22:53PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net> wrote:
> > > -struct mm_struct *proc_mem_open(struct inode *inode, unsigned int mode)
> > > +struct mm_struct *proc_mem_open(struct inode *inode,
> > > +                               const struct cred **object_cred,
> > > +                               unsigned int mode)
> > >  {
> > 
> > Why are you passing object_cred all over the place like this?  You
> > have an inode, and an inode implies a task.
> 
> But the task's mm and objective credentials can change, and only mm_access()
> holds the cred_guard_mutex during the mm lookup. Although, if the objective
> credentials change because of a setuid execution, being able to poke in the
> old mm would be pretty harmless...

Actually, no. If you can poke in the pre-execve memory, but are checked
against the (possibly more permissive) objective creds of the post-execve
process, you can affect another process that shares the pre-execve memory
(the case where task B, which calls execve(), was clone()d from task A
with CLONE_VM). So I'm keeping this code the way I wrote it.


> > For that matter, would it possibly make sense to use MEMCG's mm->owner
> > and get rid of object_cred entirely?
> 
> I guess it might.

Actually, I'd prefer not to do that - I think it would be unnecessarily
unintuitive to check against the objective creds of task A when accessing
task B if task B was clone()d from A with clone(CLONE_VM).

> > I can see this causing issues in
> > strange threading cases, e.g. accessing your own /proc/$$/mem vs
> > another thread in your process's.
> 
> Can you elaborate on that?


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