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unshare: Unsharing a thread does not require unsharing a vm

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In the logic in the initial commit of unshare made creating a new
thread group for a process, contingent upon creating a new memory
address space for that process.  That is wrong.  Two separate
processes in different thread groups can share a memory address space
and clone allows creation of such proceses.

This is significant because it was observed that mm_users > 1 does not
mean that a process is multi-threaded, as reading /proc/PID/maps
temporarily increments mm_users, which allows other processes to
(accidentally) interfere with unshare() calls.

Correct the check in check_unshare_flags() to test for
!thread_group_empty() for CLONE_THREAD, CLONE_SIGHAND, and CLONE_VM.
For sighand->count > 1 for CLONE_SIGHAND and CLONE_VM.
For !current_is_single_threaded instead of mm_users > 1 for CLONE_VM.

By using the correct checks in unshare this removes the possibility of
an accidental denial of service attack.

Additionally using the correct checks in unshare ensures that only an
explicit unshare(CLONE_VM) can possibly trigger the slow path of
current_is_single_threaded().  As an explict unshare(CLONE_VM) is
pointless it is not expected there are many applications that make
that call.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b2e0d98705 userns: Implement unshare of the user namespace
Reported-by: Ricky Zhou <rickyz@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman 2015-08-10 17:35:07 -05:00
parent 75509fd88f
commit 12c641ab82
1 changed files with 18 additions and 10 deletions
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@ -1866,13 +1866,21 @@ static int check_unshare_flags(unsigned long unshare_flags)
CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_NEWPID))
return -EINVAL;
/*
* Not implemented, but pretend it works if there is nothing to
* unshare. Note that unsharing CLONE_THREAD or CLONE_SIGHAND
* needs to unshare vm.
* Not implemented, but pretend it works if there is nothing
* to unshare. Note that unsharing the address space or the
* signal handlers also need to unshare the signal queues (aka
* CLONE_THREAD).
*/
if (unshare_flags & (CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_VM)) {
/* FIXME: get_task_mm() increments ->mm_users */
if (atomic_read(&current->mm->mm_users) > 1)
if (!thread_group_empty(current))
return -EINVAL;
}
if (unshare_flags & (CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_VM)) {
if (atomic_read(&current->sighand->count) > 1)
return -EINVAL;
}
if (unshare_flags & CLONE_VM) {
if (!current_is_single_threaded())
return -EINVAL;
}
@ -1940,16 +1948,16 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(unshare, unsigned long, unshare_flags)
*/
if (unshare_flags & CLONE_NEWUSER)
unshare_flags |= CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_FS;
/*
* If unsharing a thread from a thread group, must also unshare vm.
*/
if (unshare_flags & CLONE_THREAD)
unshare_flags |= CLONE_VM;
/*
* If unsharing vm, must also unshare signal handlers.
*/
if (unshare_flags & CLONE_VM)
unshare_flags |= CLONE_SIGHAND;
/*
* If unsharing a signal handlers, must also unshare the signal queues.
*/
if (unshare_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND)
unshare_flags |= CLONE_THREAD;
/*
* If unsharing namespace, must also unshare filesystem information.
*/