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Subject[PATCH][2.4-rc1] fix side effects of the kmod/ptrace secfix
On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Andreas Gietl wrote:
> > system monitoring stuff this way(I've even heard shutdown is affected)
>
> i can confirm that shutdown (halt|reboot) does not work on my 2.4.21-rc1-ac1
> boxes. (gentoo + redhat).

Thanks for the info!

> But your patch does not seem to fix it.

Very interesting also, the two liner adressed only the well-known problems.
To fix the other not so well-known side effects, a real cleanup is the way
to go.

Can you try the attached cleanup patch instead of the two-liner?

It's an inital cleanup and should fix the other side effects which
I described in my mails.

Bernhard Kaindl

PS: If either patch is applied correctly, this

su guest -c 'ps $PPID;wc -m </proc/$PPID/cmdline'

should give:

PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
2452 pts/2 S 0:00 su bin -c ps $PPID;wc -m </proc/$PPID/cmdline
46

If it does not, access_process_vm is not fixed properly.

Second, calling this as root:

strace -fewrite su -c /bin/echo 2>&1 | grep pid

should give:

[pid 2599] --- SIGSTOP (Stopped (signal)) @ 0 (0) ---
[pid 2599] write(1, "\n", 1

If it does not, ptrace_check_attach is not fixed properly.

(These are only the checks for the well known side
effects which should be fixed even with the short
is_dumpable() -> task_dumpable patch.)--- kernel/ptrace.c 2003/04/22 21:14:20 1.1
+++ kernel/ptrace.c 2003/04/25 06:21:16 1.3
@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@
*/
int ptrace_check_attach(struct task_struct *child, int kill)
{
- mb();
- if (!is_dumpable(child))
- return -EPERM;

if (!(child->ptrace & PT_PTRACED))
return -ESRCH;
@@ -127,8 +124,6 @@ int access_process_vm(struct task_struct
/* Worry about races with exit() */
task_lock(tsk);
mm = tsk->mm;
- if (!is_dumpable(tsk) || (&init_mm == mm))
- mm = NULL;
if (mm)
atomic_inc(&mm->mm_users);
task_unlock(tsk);
--- kernel/sys.c 2003/04/25 06:23:15 1.1
+++ kernel/sys.c 2003/04/25 06:23:51
@@ -1252,8 +1252,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_prctl(int option, un
error = -EINVAL;
break;
}
- if (is_dumpable(current))
- current->mm->dumpable = arg2;
+ current->mm->dumpable = arg2;
break;

case PR_SET_UNALIGN:
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