This introduces signal->unsafe_execve_in_progress, which is used to fix the case when at least one of the sibling threads is traced, and therefore the trace process may dead-lock in ptrace_attach, but de_thread will need to wait for the tracer to continue execution.
The solution is to detect this situation and allow ptrace_attach to continue, while de_thread() is still waiting for traced zombies to be eventually released. When the current thread changed the ptrace status from non-traced to traced, we can simply abort the whole execve and restart it by returning -ERESTARTSYS. This needs to be done before changing the thread leader, because the PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC needs to know the old thread pid.
Although it is technically after the point of no return, we just have to reset bprm->point_of_no_return here, since at this time only the other threads have received a fatal signal, not the current thread.
From the user's point of view the whole execve was
simply delayed until after the ptrace_attach.
Other threads die quickly since the cred_guard_mutex is released, but a deadly signal is already pending. In case the mutex_lock_killable misses the signal, ->unsafe_execve_in_progress makes sure they release the mutex immediately and return with -ERESTARTNOINTR.
This means there is no API change, unlike the previous version of this patch which was discussed here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b6537ae6-31b1-5c50-f32b-8b8332ace882@hotmail.de...
See tools/testing/selftests/ptrace/vmaccess.c for a test case that gets fixed by this change.
Note that since the test case was originally designed to test the ptrace_attach returning an error in this situation, the test expectation needed to be adjusted, to allow the API to succeed at the first attempt.
Signed-off-by: Bernd Edlinger bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de --- fs/exec.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- fs/proc/base.c | 6 +++++ include/linux/sched/signal.h | 13 +++++++++++ kernel/ptrace.c | 9 ++++++++ kernel/seccomp.c | 12 +++++++--- tools/testing/selftests/ptrace/vmaccess.c | 25 ++++++++++++++------- 6 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 8344fba..c7b1926 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -1040,6 +1040,8 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct *tsk) struct signal_struct *sig = tsk->signal; struct sighand_struct *oldsighand = tsk->sighand; spinlock_t *lock = &oldsighand->siglock; + unsigned int prev_ptrace = tsk->ptrace; + struct task_struct *t = tsk;
if (thread_group_empty(tsk)) goto no_thread_group; @@ -1062,6 +1064,17 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct *tsk) if (!thread_group_leader(tsk)) sig->notify_count--;
+ while_each_thread(tsk, t) { + if (unlikely(t->ptrace) && t != tsk->group_leader) + sig->unsafe_execve_in_progress = true; + } + + if (unlikely(sig->unsafe_execve_in_progress)) { + spin_unlock_irq(lock); + mutex_unlock(&sig->cred_guard_mutex); + spin_lock_irq(lock); + } + while (sig->notify_count) { __set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE); spin_unlock_irq(lock); @@ -1072,6 +1085,17 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct *tsk) } spin_unlock_irq(lock);
+ if (unlikely(sig->unsafe_execve_in_progress)) { + if (mutex_lock_killable(&sig->cred_guard_mutex)) + goto killed; + sig->unsafe_execve_in_progress = false; + if (!prev_ptrace && tsk->ptrace) { + sig->group_exit_task = NULL; + sig->notify_count = 0; + return -ERESTARTSYS; + } + } + /* * At this point all other threads have exited, all we have to * do is to wait for the thread group leader to become inactive, @@ -1255,8 +1279,11 @@ int begin_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm) * Make this the only thread in the thread group. */ retval = de_thread(me); - if (retval) + if (retval) { + if (retval == -ERESTARTSYS) + bprm->point_of_no_return = false; goto out; + }
/* * Cancel any io_uring activity across execve @@ -1466,6 +1493,11 @@ static int prepare_bprm_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm) if (mutex_lock_interruptible(¤t->signal->cred_guard_mutex)) return -ERESTARTNOINTR;
+ if (unlikely(current->signal->unsafe_execve_in_progress)) { + mutex_unlock(¤t->signal->cred_guard_mutex); + return -ERESTARTNOINTR; + } + bprm->cred = prepare_exec_creds(); if (likely(bprm->cred)) return 0; @@ -1482,7 +1514,8 @@ static void free_bprm(struct linux_binprm *bprm) } free_arg_pages(bprm); if (bprm->cred) { - mutex_unlock(¤t->signal->cred_guard_mutex); + if (!current->signal->unsafe_execve_in_progress) + mutex_unlock(¤t->signal->cred_guard_mutex); abort_creds(bprm->cred); } if (bprm->file) { diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index 3851bfc..3b2a55c 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -2739,6 +2739,12 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_attr_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buf, if (rv < 0) goto out_free;
+ if (unlikely(current->signal->unsafe_execve_in_progress)) { + mutex_unlock(¤t->signal->cred_guard_mutex); + rv = -ERESTARTNOINTR; + goto out_free; + } + rv = security_setprocattr(PROC_I(inode)->op.lsm, file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name, page, count); diff --git a/include/linux/sched/signal.h b/include/linux/sched/signal.h index 3f6a0fc..220a083 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/signal.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/signal.h @@ -214,6 +214,17 @@ struct signal_struct { #endif
/* + * Set while execve is executing but is *not* holding + * cred_guard_mutex to avoid possible dead-locks. + * The cred_guard_mutex is released *after* de_thread() has + * called zap_other_threads(), therefore a fatal signal is + * guaranteed to be already pending in the unlikely event, that + * current->signal->unsafe_execve_in_progress happens to be + * true after the cred_guard_mutex was acquired. + */ + bool unsafe_execve_in_progress; + + /* * Thread is the potential origin of an oom condition; kill first on * oom */ @@ -227,6 +238,8 @@ struct signal_struct { struct mutex cred_guard_mutex; /* guard against foreign influences on * credential calculations * (notably. ptrace) + * Held while execve runs, except when + * a sibling thread is being traced. * Deprecated do not use in new code. * Use exec_update_lock instead. */ diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index 61db50f..0cbc1eb 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -468,6 +468,14 @@ static int ptrace_traceme(void) { int ret = -EPERM;
+ if (mutex_lock_interruptible(¤t->signal->cred_guard_mutex)) + return -ERESTARTNOINTR; + + if (unlikely(current->signal->unsafe_execve_in_progress)) { + mutex_unlock(¤t->signal->cred_guard_mutex); + return -ERESTARTNOINTR; + } + write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); /* Are we already being traced? */ if (!current->ptrace) { @@ -483,6 +491,7 @@ static int ptrace_traceme(void) } } write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); + mutex_unlock(¤t->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
return ret; } diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c index 1d60fc2..b1389ee 100644 --- a/kernel/seccomp.c +++ b/kernel/seccomp.c @@ -1824,9 +1824,15 @@ static long seccomp_set_mode_filter(unsigned int flags, * Make sure we cannot change seccomp or nnp state via TSYNC * while another thread is in the middle of calling exec. */ - if (flags & SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC && - mutex_lock_killable(¤t->signal->cred_guard_mutex)) - goto out_put_fd; + if (flags & SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC) { + if (mutex_lock_killable(¤t->signal->cred_guard_mutex)) + goto out_put_fd; + + if (unlikely(current->signal->unsafe_execve_in_progress)) { + mutex_unlock(¤t->signal->cred_guard_mutex); + goto out_put_fd; + } + }
spin_lock_irq(¤t->sighand->siglock);
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ptrace/vmaccess.c b/tools/testing/selftests/ptrace/vmaccess.c index 4db327b..c7c2242 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ptrace/vmaccess.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ptrace/vmaccess.c @@ -39,8 +39,15 @@ static void *thread(void *arg) f = open(mm, O_RDONLY); ASSERT_GE(f, 0); close(f); - f = kill(pid, SIGCONT); - ASSERT_EQ(f, 0); + f = waitpid(-1, NULL, 0); + ASSERT_NE(f, -1); + ASSERT_NE(f, 0); + ASSERT_NE(f, pid); + f = waitpid(-1, NULL, 0); + ASSERT_EQ(f, pid); + f = waitpid(-1, NULL, 0); + ASSERT_EQ(f, -1); + ASSERT_EQ(errno, ECHILD); }
TEST(attach) @@ -57,22 +64,24 @@ static void *thread(void *arg)
sleep(1); k = ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, 0L, 0L); - ASSERT_EQ(errno, EAGAIN); - ASSERT_EQ(k, -1); + ASSERT_EQ(k, 0); k = waitpid(-1, &s, WNOHANG); ASSERT_NE(k, -1); ASSERT_NE(k, 0); ASSERT_NE(k, pid); ASSERT_EQ(WIFEXITED(s), 1); ASSERT_EQ(WEXITSTATUS(s), 0); - sleep(1); - k = ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, 0L, 0L); - ASSERT_EQ(k, 0); k = waitpid(-1, &s, 0); ASSERT_EQ(k, pid); ASSERT_EQ(WIFSTOPPED(s), 1); ASSERT_EQ(WSTOPSIG(s), SIGSTOP); - k = ptrace(PTRACE_DETACH, pid, 0L, 0L); + k = ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, 0L, 0L); + ASSERT_EQ(k, 0); + k = waitpid(-1, &s, 0); + ASSERT_EQ(k, pid); + ASSERT_EQ(WIFSTOPPED(s), 1); + ASSERT_EQ(WSTOPSIG(s), SIGTRAP); + k = ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, 0L, 0L); ASSERT_EQ(k, 0); k = waitpid(-1, &s, 0); ASSERT_EQ(k, pid);