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<title>kernel/git/stable/linux.git/fs/exec.c, branch linux-2.6.39.y</title>
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<updated>2011-06-23T22:05:36+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>exec: delay address limit change until point of no return</title>
<updated>2011-06-23T22:05:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathias Krause</name>
<email>minipli@googlemail.com</email>
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<published>2011-06-09T18:05:18+00:00</published>
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commit dac853ae89043f1b7752875300faf614de43c74b upstream.

Unconditionally changing the address limit to USER_DS and not restoring
it to its old value in the error path is wrong because it prevents us
using kernel memory on repeated calls to this function.  This, in fact,
breaks the fallback of hard coded paths to the init program from being
ever successful if the first candidate fails to load.

With this patch applied switching to USER_DS is delayed until the point
of no return is reached which makes it possible to have a multi-arch
rootfs with one arch specific init binary for each of the (hard coded)
probed paths.

Since the address limit is already set to USER_DS when start_thread()
will be invoked, this redundancy can be safely removed.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Small typo fix...</title>
<updated>2011-03-21T04:16:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Holger Hans Peter Freyther</name>
<email>holger@freyther.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-24T16:46:49+00:00</published>
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Hi,

I was backporting the coredump over pipe feature and noticed this small typo,
I wish I would have something bigger to contribute...

&gt;From 15d6080e0ed4267da103c706917a33b1015e8804 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Holger Hans Peter Freyther &lt;holger@moiji-mobile.com&gt;
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:42:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fs: Fix a small typo in the comment

The function is called umh_pipe_setup not uhm_pipe_setup.

Signed-off-by: Holger Hans Peter Freyther &lt;holger@moiji-mobile.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>switch do_filp_open() to struct open_flags</title>
<updated>2011-03-14T13:15:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-23T22:44:09+00:00</published>
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take calculation of open_flags by open(2) arguments into new helper
in fs/open.c, move filp_open() over there, have it and do_sys_open()
use that helper, switch exec.c callers of do_filp_open() to explicit
(and constant) struct open_flags.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vfs: sparse: add __FMODE_EXEC</title>
<updated>2011-02-03T00:03:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-01T23:52:46+00:00</published>
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FMODE_EXEC is a constant type of fmode_t but was used with normal integer
constants.  This results in following warnings from sparse.  Fix it using
new macro __FMODE_EXEC.

 fs/exec.c:116:58: warning: restricted fmode_t degrades to integer
 fs/exec.c:689:58: warning: restricted fmode_t degrades to integer
 fs/fcntl.c:777:9: warning: restricted fmode_t degrades to integer

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>install_special_mapping skips security_file_mmap check.</title>
<updated>2010-12-15T20:30:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tavis Ormandy</name>
<email>taviso@cmpxchg8b.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-09T14:29:42+00:00</published>
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The install_special_mapping routine (used, for example, to setup the
vdso) skips the security check before insert_vm_struct, allowing a local
attacker to bypass the mmap_min_addr security restriction by limiting
the available pages for special mappings.

bprm_mm_init() also skips the check, and although I don't think this can
be used to bypass any restrictions, I don't see any reason not to have
the security check.

  $ uname -m
  x86_64
  $ cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr
  65536
  $ cat install_special_mapping.s
  section .bss
      resb BSS_SIZE
  section .text
      global _start
      _start:
          mov     eax, __NR_pause
          int     0x80
  $ nasm -D__NR_pause=29 -DBSS_SIZE=0xfffed000 -f elf -o install_special_mapping.o install_special_mapping.s
  $ ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext=0x10000 -Tbss=0x11000 -o install_special_mapping install_special_mapping.o
  $ ./install_special_mapping &amp;
  [1] 14303
  $ cat /proc/14303/maps
  0000f000-00010000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [vdso]
  00010000-00011000 r-xp 00001000 00:19 2453665                            /home/taviso/install_special_mapping
  00011000-ffffe000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [stack]

It's worth noting that Red Hat are shipping with mmap_min_addr set to
4096.

Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy &lt;taviso@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@ubuntu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Robert Swiecki &lt;swiecki@google.com&gt;
[ Changed to not drop the error code - akpm ]
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>exec: copy-and-paste the fixes into compat_do_execve() paths</title>
<updated>2010-12-01T01:56:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-30T19:56:02+00:00</published>
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Note: this patch targets 2.6.37 and tries to be as simple as possible.
That is why it adds more copy-and-paste horror into fs/compat.c and
uglifies fs/exec.c, this will be cleanuped later.

compat_copy_strings() plays with bprm-&gt;vma/mm directly and thus has
two problems: it lacks the RLIMIT_STACK check and argv/envp memory
is not visible to oom killer.

Export acct_arg_size() and get_arg_page(), change compat_copy_strings()
to use get_arg_page(), change compat_do_execve() to do acct_arg_size(0)
as do_execve() does.

Add the fatal_signal_pending/cond_resched checks into compat_count() and
compat_copy_strings(), this matches the code in fs/exec.c and certainly
makes sense.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>exec: make argv/envp memory visible to oom-killer</title>
<updated>2010-12-01T01:56:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-30T19:55:34+00:00</published>
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Brad Spengler published a local memory-allocation DoS that
evades the OOM-killer (though not the virtual memory RLIMIT):
http://www.grsecurity.net/~spender/64bit_dos.c

execve()-&gt;copy_strings() can allocate a lot of memory, but
this is not visible to oom-killer, nobody can see the nascent
bprm-&gt;mm and take it into account.

With this patch get_arg_page() increments current's MM_ANONPAGES
counter every time we allocate the new page for argv/envp. When
do_execve() succeds or fails, we change this counter back.

Technically this is not 100% correct, we can't know if the new
page is swapped out and turn MM_ANONPAGES into MM_SWAPENTS, but
I don't think this really matters and everything becomes correct
once exec changes -&gt;mm or fails.

Reported-by: Brad Spengler &lt;spender@grsecurity.net&gt;
Reviewed-and-discussed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>exec: don't turn PF_KTHREAD off when a target command was not found</title>
<updated>2010-10-28T01:03:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KOSAKI Motohiro</name>
<email>kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-27T22:34:16+00:00</published>
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Presently do_execve() turns PF_KTHREAD off before search_binary_handler().
 THis has a theorical risk of PF_KTHREAD getting lost.  We don't have to
turn PF_KTHREAD off in the ENOEXEC case.

This patch moves this flag modification to after the finding of the
executable file.

This is only a theorical issue because kthreads do not call do_execve()
directly.  But fixing would be better.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>core_pattern: fix truncation by core_pattern handler with long parameters</title>
<updated>2010-10-28T01:03:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiaotian Feng</name>
<email>dfeng@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-27T22:34:08+00:00</published>
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We met a parameter truncated issue, consider following:
&gt; echo "|/root/core_pattern_pipe_test %p /usr/libexec/blah-blah-blah \
%s %c %p %u %g 11 12345678901234567890123456789012345678 %t" &gt; \
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

This is okay because the strings is less than CORENAME_MAX_SIZE.  "cat
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern" shows the whole string.  but after we run
core_pattern_pipe_test in man page, we found last parameter was truncated
like below:

        argc[10]=&lt;12807486&gt;

The root cause is core_pattern allows % specifiers, which need to be
replaced during parse time, but the replace may expand the strings to
larger than CORENAME_MAX_SIZE.  So if the last parameter is % specifiers,
the replace code is using snprintf(out_ptr, out_end - out_ptr, ...), this
will write out of corename array.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng &lt;dfeng@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>signals: move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct</title>
<updated>2010-10-28T01:03:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KOSAKI Motohiro</name>
<email>kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-27T22:34:08+00:00</published>
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Oleg Nesterov pointed out we have to prevent multiple-threads-inside-exec
itself and we can reuse -&gt;cred_guard_mutex for it.  Yes, concurrent
execve() has no worth.

Let's move -&gt;cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct.  It
naturally prevent multiple-threads-inside-exec.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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