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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] Yama: add PTRACE exception tracking
Hi Eric,

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:41:26AM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> wrote:
> > Some application suites have external crash handlers that depend on
> > being able to use PTRACE to generate crash reports (KDE, Chromium, etc).
> > Since the inferior process generally knows the PID of the debugger,
> > it can use PR_SET_PTRACER to allow a specific PID and its descendants
> > to perform the PTRACE instead of only a direct ancestor.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
>
> any normal unpriv application:
>
> while(1) {
> prctl(PR_SET_PTRACER, 1, 0, 0, 0);
> }
>
> watch kernel run out of memory and bring down the box. Seems like
> quite the DoS.....

Yes, thanks for noticing this; it seems the version I sent did not
include the fixes I made at some point to correctly replace exceptions:


diff --git a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
index f24b6b3..4f160db 100644
--- a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
+++ b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ static LIST_HEAD(ptracer_relations);
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ptracer_relations_lock);

/**
- * yama_ptracer_add - add an exception for this tracer/tracee pair
+ * yama_ptracer_add - add/replace an exception for this tracer/tracee pair
* @tracer: the task_struct of the process doing the PTRACE
* @tracee: the task_struct of the process to be PTRACEd
*
@@ -41,18 +41,30 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ptracer_relations_lock);
static int yama_ptracer_add(struct task_struct *tracer,
struct task_struct *tracee)
{
- struct ptrace_relation *relation;
+ int rc = 0;
+ struct ptrace_relation *entry, *relation = NULL;

- relation = kmalloc(sizeof(*relation), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!relation)
- return -ENOMEM;
- relation->tracer = tracer;
- relation->tracee = tracee;
spin_lock(&ptracer_relations_lock);
- list_add(&relation->node, &ptracer_relations);
+ list_for_each_entry(entry, &ptracer_relations, node)
+ if (entry->tracee == tracee) {
+ relation = entry;
+ break;
+ }
+ if (!relation) {
+ relation = kmalloc(sizeof(*relation), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!relation) {
+ rc = -ENOMEM;
+ goto unlock_out;
+ }
+ relation->tracee = tracee;
+ list_add(&relation->node, &ptracer_relations);
+ }
+ relation->tracer = tracer;
+
+unlock_out:
spin_unlock(&ptracer_relations_lock);

- return 0;
+ return rc;
}

/**

-Kees

--
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team


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