exec: avoid RLIMIT_STACK races with prlimit()
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:10:51 +0000 (16:10 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 02:40:42 +0000 (18:40 -0800)
While the defense-in-depth RLIMIT_STACK limit on setuid processes was
protected against races from other threads calling setrlimit(), I missed
protecting it against races from external processes calling prlimit().
This adds locking around the change and makes sure that rlim_max is set
too.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171127193457.GA11348@beast
Fixes: 64701dee4178e ("exec: Use sane stack rlimit under secureexec")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Reported-by: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/exec.c

index 1d6243d9f2b653e679165099be9332776805b8bd..6be2aa0ab26fe26cb37032b99bba656f8d7c6b51 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1340,10 +1340,15 @@ void setup_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
                 * avoid bad behavior from the prior rlimits. This has to
                 * happen before arch_pick_mmap_layout(), which examines
                 * RLIMIT_STACK, but after the point of no return to avoid
-                * needing to clean up the change on failure.
+                * races from other threads changing the limits. This also
+                * must be protected from races with prlimit() calls.
                 */
+               task_lock(current->group_leader);
                if (current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur > _STK_LIM)
                        current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur = _STK_LIM;
+               if (current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_max > _STK_LIM)
+                       current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_max = _STK_LIM;
+               task_unlock(current->group_leader);
        }
 
        arch_pick_mmap_layout(current->mm);