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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2012-02-04 10:47:10 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-02-06 15:15:20 -0800
commit96e02d1586782eadf051fa3d6bc4132d2447ac2c (patch)
treedd40e6302d2770d3c51cced64cfd3b8cf1355da4 /fs/exec.c
parent23783f817bceedd6d4e549385e3f400ea64059e5 (diff)
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exec: fix use-after-free bug in setup_new_exec()
Setting the task name is done within setup_new_exec() by accessing bprm->filename. However this happens after flush_old_exec(). This may result in a use after free bug, flush_old_exec() may "complete" vfork_done, which will wake up the parent which in turn may free the passed in filename. To fix this add a new tcomm field in struct linux_binprm which contains the now early generated task name until it is used. Fixes this bug on s390: Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address 0000000039768000 Process kworker/u:3 (pid: 245, task: 000000003a3dc840, ksp: 0000000039453818) Krnl PSW : 0704000180000000 0000000000282e94 (setup_new_exec+0xa0/0x374) Call Trace: ([<0000000000282e2c>] setup_new_exec+0x38/0x374) [<00000000002dd12e>] load_elf_binary+0x402/0x1bf4 [<0000000000280a42>] search_binary_handler+0x38e/0x5bc [<0000000000282b6c>] do_execve_common+0x410/0x514 [<0000000000282cb6>] do_execve+0x46/0x58 [<00000000005bce58>] kernel_execve+0x28/0x70 [<000000000014ba2e>] ____call_usermodehelper+0x102/0x140 [<00000000005bc8da>] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc [<00000000005bc8d4>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc Last Breaking-Event-Address: [<00000000002830f0>] setup_new_exec+0x2fc/0x374 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops Reported-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/exec.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/exec.c33
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index aeb135c7ff5c..92ce83a11e90 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1071,6 +1071,21 @@ void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, char *buf)
perf_event_comm(tsk);
}
+static void filename_to_taskname(char *tcomm, const char *fn, unsigned int len)
+{
+ int i, ch;
+
+ /* Copies the binary name from after last slash */
+ for (i = 0; (ch = *(fn++)) != '\0';) {
+ if (ch == '/')
+ i = 0; /* overwrite what we wrote */
+ else
+ if (i < len - 1)
+ tcomm[i++] = ch;
+ }
+ tcomm[i] = '\0';
+}
+
int flush_old_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
{
int retval;
@@ -1085,6 +1100,7 @@ int flush_old_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
set_mm_exe_file(bprm->mm, bprm->file);
+ filename_to_taskname(bprm->tcomm, bprm->filename, sizeof(bprm->tcomm));
/*
* Release all of the old mmap stuff
*/
@@ -1116,10 +1132,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(would_dump);
void setup_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
{
- int i, ch;
- const char *name;
- char tcomm[sizeof(current->comm)];
-
arch_pick_mmap_layout(current->mm);
/* This is the point of no return */
@@ -1130,18 +1142,7 @@ void setup_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
else
set_dumpable(current->mm, suid_dumpable);
- name = bprm->filename;
-
- /* Copies the binary name from after last slash */
- for (i=0; (ch = *(name++)) != '\0';) {
- if (ch == '/')
- i = 0; /* overwrite what we wrote */
- else
- if (i < (sizeof(tcomm) - 1))
- tcomm[i++] = ch;
- }
- tcomm[i] = '\0';
- set_task_comm(current, tcomm);
+ set_task_comm(current, bprm->tcomm);
/* Set the new mm task size. We have to do that late because it may
* depend on TIF_32BIT which is only updated in flush_thread() on
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