linux-kernel - Re: [CFT][PATCH] ptrace: Properly initialize ptracer

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Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 11:16:30 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CFT][PATCH] ptrace: Properly initialize ptracer_cred on fork

On Tue, 23 May 2017 07:47:32 +0200,
Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 22 May 2017 23:04:48 +0200,
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > When I introduced ptracer_cred I failed to consider the weirdness of
> > fork where the task_struct copies the old value by default.  This
> > winds up leaving ptracer_cred set even when a process forks and
> > the child process does not wind up being ptraced.
> > 
> > Because ptracer_cred is not set on non-ptraced processes whose
> > parents were ptraced this has broken the ability of the enlightenment
> > window manager to start setuid children.
> > 
> > Fix this by properly initializing ptracer_cred in ptrace_init_task
> > 
> > This must be done with a little bit of care to preserve the current value
> > of ptracer_cred when ptrace carries through fork.  Re-reading the
> > ptracer_cred from the ptracing process at this point is inconsistent
> > with how PT_PTRACE_CAP has been maintained all of these years.
> > 
> > Fixes: 64b875f7ac8a ("ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP")
> > Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > If I could get some folks to test and verify this fixes the
> > enlightenment issue I would really appreciate it.
> 
> This seems giving a compile warning and it becomes error in the
> following:
> 
> In file included from ./include/linux/mutex.h:13:0,
>                  from ./include/linux/kernfs.h:13,
>                  from ./include/linux/sysfs.h:15,
>                  from ./include/linux/kobject.h:21,
>                  from ./include/linux/device.h:17,
>                  from drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c:32:
> ./include/linux/ptrace.h: In function ‘ptrace_init_task’:
> ./arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:17:17: error: passing argument 3 of ‘__ptrace_link’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
>  #define current get_current()
>                  ^
> ./include/linux/ptrace.h:210:41: note: in expansion of macro ‘current’
>    __ptrace_link(child, current->parent, current->ptracer_cred);
>                                          ^~~~~~~
> In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h:10:0,
>                  from ./arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h:246,
>                  from ./include/linux/perf_event.h:24,
>                  from ./arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h:24,
>                  from ./include/linux/kvm_host.h:37,
>                  from drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c:41:
> ./include/linux/ptrace.h:56:13: note: expected ‘struct cred *’ but argument is of type ‘const struct cred *’
>  extern void __ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child,
>              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

Through a quick test on VM (fixed patch by adding const to
__ptrace_link() argument), it seems working fine.

Tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>


thanks,

Takashi