From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 20:26:27 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Sanitize 'move_pages()' permission checks
X-Git-Tag: v3.2.93~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a9a659c916c81b3385479ee00d4547912f08abf6;p=pandora-kernel.git

Sanitize 'move_pages()' permission checks

commit 197e7e521384a23b9e585178f3f11c9fa08274b9 upstream.

The 'move_paghes()' system call was introduced long long ago with the
same permission checks as for sending a signal (except using
CAP_SYS_NICE instead of CAP_SYS_KILL for the overriding capability).

That turns out to not be a great choice - while the system call really
only moves physical page allocations around (and you need other
capabilities to do a lot of it), you can check the return value to map
out some the virtual address choices and defeat ASLR of a binary that
still shares your uid.

So change the access checks to the more common 'ptrace_may_access()'
model instead.

This tightens the access checks for the uid, and also effectively
changes the CAP_SYS_NICE check to CAP_SYS_PTRACE, but it's unlikely that
anybody really _uses_ this legacy system call any more (we hav ebetter
NUMA placement models these days), so I expect nobody to notice.

Famous last words.

Reported-by: Otto Ebeling <otto.ebeling@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 0f2736b319de..3f95bab563cb 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
 #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
 #include <linux/gfp.h>
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 
@@ -1366,7 +1367,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(move_pages, pid_t, pid, unsigned long, nr_pages,
 		const int __user *, nodes,
 		int __user *, status, int, flags)
 {
-	const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *tcred;
 	struct task_struct *task;
 	struct mm_struct *mm;
 	int err;
@@ -1390,14 +1390,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(move_pages, pid_t, pid, unsigned long, nr_pages,
 
 	/*
 	 * Check if this process has the right to modify the specified
-	 * process. The right exists if the process has administrative
-	 * capabilities, superuser privileges or the same
-	 * userid as the target process.
+	 * process. Use the regular "ptrace_may_access()" checks.
 	 */
-	tcred = __task_cred(task);
-	if (cred->euid != tcred->suid && cred->euid != tcred->uid &&
-	    cred->uid  != tcred->suid && cred->uid  != tcred->uid &&
-	    !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
+	if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS)) {
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 		err = -EPERM;
 		goto out;