linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] mm, pagemap: Hide swap entry for unprivileged users

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Message-ID: <20180508090734.GA27996@hori1.linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>
Date:   Tue, 8 May 2018 09:07:34 +0000
From:   Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
To:     "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
CC:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Daniel Colascione <dancol@...gle.com>,
        Zi Yan <zi.yan@...rutgers.edu>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] mm, pagemap: Hide swap entry for unprivileged users

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 09:27:45AM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
> 
> In ab676b7d6fbf ("pagemap: do not leak physical addresses to
> non-privileged userspace"), the /proc/PID/pagemap is restricted to be
> readable only by CAP_SYS_ADMIN to address some security issue.  In
> 1c90308e7a77 ("pagemap: hide physical addresses from non-privileged
> users"), the restriction is relieved to make /proc/PID/pagemap
> readable, but hide the physical addresses for non-privileged users.
> But the swap entries are readable for non-privileged users too.  This
> has some security issues.  For example, for page under migrating, the
> swap entry has physical address information.  So, in this patch, the
> swap entries are hided for non-privileged users too.
> 
> Fixes: 1c90308e7a77 ("pagemap: hide physical addresses from non-privileged users")
> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
> Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
> Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>
> Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@...gle.com>
> Cc: Zi Yan <zi.yan@...rutgers.edu>
> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>

Hi ying huang,

This patch looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>

> ---
>  fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> index a20c6e495bb2..ff947fdd7c71 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> @@ -1258,8 +1258,9 @@ static pagemap_entry_t pte_to_pagemap_entry(struct pagemapread *pm,
>  		if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(pte))
>  			flags |= PM_SOFT_DIRTY;
>  		entry = pte_to_swp_entry(pte);
> -		frame = swp_type(entry) |
> -			(swp_offset(entry) << MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT);
> +		if (pm->show_pfn)
> +			frame = swp_type(entry) |
> +				(swp_offset(entry) << MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT);
>  		flags |= PM_SWAP;
>  		if (is_migration_entry(entry))
>  			page = migration_entry_to_page(entry);
> @@ -1310,11 +1311,14 @@ static int pagemap_pmd_range(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION
>  		else if (is_swap_pmd(pmd)) {
>  			swp_entry_t entry = pmd_to_swp_entry(pmd);
> -			unsigned long offset = swp_offset(entry);
> +			unsigned long offset;
>  
> -			offset += (addr & ~PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> -			frame = swp_type(entry) |
> -				(offset << MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT);
> +			if (pm->show_pfn) {
> +				offset = swp_offset(entry) +
> +					((addr & ~PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> +				frame = swp_type(entry) |
> +					(offset << MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT);
> +			}
>  			flags |= PM_SWAP;
>  			if (pmd_swp_soft_dirty(pmd))
>  				flags |= PM_SOFT_DIRTY;
> @@ -1332,10 +1336,12 @@ static int pagemap_pmd_range(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
>  			err = add_to_pagemap(addr, &pme, pm);
>  			if (err)
>  				break;
> -			if (pm->show_pfn && (flags & PM_PRESENT))
> -				frame++;
> -			else if (flags & PM_SWAP)
> -				frame += (1 << MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT);
> +			if (pm->show_pfn) {
> +				if (flags & PM_PRESENT)
> +					frame++;
> +				else if (flags & PM_SWAP)
> +					frame += (1 << MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT);
> +			}
>  		}
>  		spin_unlock(ptl);
>  		return err;
> -- 
> 2.17.0
> 
>