linux-kernel - [PATCH 14/20] exit/syscall_user_dispatch: Send ordinary signals on failure

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Date:   Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:44:00 -0500
From:   "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 14/20] exit/syscall_user_dispatch: Send ordinary signals on failure

Use force_fatal_sig instead of calling do_exit directly.  This ensures
the ordinary signal handling path gets invoked, core dumps as
appropriate get created, and for multi-threaded processes all of the
threads are terminated not just a single thread.

When asked Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com> said [1]:
> ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) asked:
>
> > Why does do_syscal_user_dispatch call do_exit(SIGSEGV) and
> > do_exit(SIGSYS) instead of force_sig(SIGSEGV) and force_sig(SIGSYS)?
> >
> > Looking at the code these cases are not expected to happen, so I would
> > be surprised if userspace depends on any particular behaviour on the
> > failure path so I think we can change this.
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> There is not really a good reason, and the use case that originated the
> feature doesn't rely on it.
>
> Unless I'm missing yet another problem and others correct me, I think
> it makes sense to change it as you described.
>
> > Is using do_exit in this way something you copied from seccomp?
>
> I'm not sure, its been a while, but I think it might be just that.  The
> first prototype of SUD was implemented as a seccomp mode.

If at some point it becomes interesting we could relax
"force_fatal_sig(SIGSEGV)" to instead say
"force_sig_fault(SIGSEGV, SEGV_MAPERR, sd->selector)".

I avoid doing that in this patch to avoid making it possible
to catch currently uncatchable signals.

Cc: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87mtr6gdvi.fsf@collabora.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c b/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c
index c240302f56e2..4508201847d2 100644
--- a/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c
+++ b/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c
@@ -47,14 +47,18 @@ bool syscall_user_dispatch(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		 * access_ok() is performed once, at prctl time, when
 		 * the selector is loaded by userspace.
 		 */
-		if (unlikely(__get_user(state, sd->selector)))
-			do_exit(SIGSEGV);
+		if (unlikely(__get_user(state, sd->selector))) {
+			force_fatal_sig(SIGSEGV);
+			return true;
+		}
 
 		if (likely(state == SYSCALL_DISPATCH_FILTER_ALLOW))
 			return false;
 
-		if (state != SYSCALL_DISPATCH_FILTER_BLOCK)
-			do_exit(SIGSYS);
+		if (state != SYSCALL_DISPATCH_FILTER_BLOCK) {
+			force_fatal_sig(SIGSYS);
+			return true;
+		}
 	}
 
 	sd->on_dispatch = true;
-- 
2.20.1