linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/2] coredump: Fixes core_pipe_limit sysctl proc

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Message-ID: <20241217132908.38096-2-nicolas.bouchinet@clip-os.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:29:06 +0100
From: nicolas.bouchinet@...p-os.org
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Nicolas Bouchinet <nicolas.bouchinet@....gouv.fr>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
	Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>,
	Joel Granados <j.granados@...sung.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	Lin Feng <linf@...gsu.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] coredump: Fixes core_pipe_limit sysctl proc_handler

From: Nicolas Bouchinet <nicolas.bouchinet@....gouv.fr>

proc_dointvec converts a string to a vector of signed int, which is
stored in the unsigned int .data core_pipe_limit.
It was thus authorized to write a negative value to core_pipe_limit
sysctl which once stored in core_pipe_limit, leads to the signed int
dump_count check against core_pipe_limit never be true. The same can be
achieved with core_pipe_limit set to INT_MAX.

Any negative write or >= to INT_MAX in core_pipe_limit sysctl would
hypothetically allow a user to create very high load on the system by
running processes that produces a coredump in case the core_pattern
sysctl is configured to pipe core files to user space helper.
Memory or PID exhaustion should happen before but it anyway breaks the
core_pipe_limit semantic.

This commit fixes this by changing core_pipe_limit sysctl's proc_handler
to proc_dointvec_minmax and bound checking between SYSCTL_ZERO and
SYSCTL_INT_MAX.

Fixes: a293980c2e26 ("exec: let do_coredump() limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipes")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Bouchinet <nicolas.bouchinet@....gouv.fr>
---
 fs/coredump.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
index 7f12ff6ad1d3e..c3a74dd194e69 100644
--- a/fs/coredump.c
+++ b/fs/coredump.c
@@ -1024,7 +1024,9 @@ static struct ctl_table coredump_sysctls[] = {
 		.data		= &core_pipe_limit,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(unsigned int),
 		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
+		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
+		.extra2		= SYSCTL_INT_MAX,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname       = "core_file_note_size_limit",
-- 
2.47.1