Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 5 authors, 2015-12-07

Re: [PATCH 1/2] security: let security modules use PTRACE_MODE_* with bitmasks

From: Kees Cook <hidden>
Date: 2015-12-07 21:30:58
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Jann Horn [off-list ref] wrote:
It looks like smack and yama weren't aware that the ptrace mode
can have flags ORed into it - PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT until now, but
only for /proc/$pid/stat, and with the PTRACE_MODE_*CREDS patch,
all modes have flags ORed into them.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <redacted>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <redacted>

-Kees
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 8 +++-----
 security/yama/yama_lsm.c   | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
index ff81026..7c57c7f 100644
--- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
+++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
@@ -398,12 +398,10 @@ static int smk_copy_relabel(struct list_head *nhead, struct list_head *ohead,
  */
 static inline unsigned int smk_ptrace_mode(unsigned int mode)
 {
-       switch (mode) {
-       case PTRACE_MODE_READ:
-               return MAY_READ;
-       case PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH:
+       if (mode & PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH)
                return MAY_READWRITE;
-       }
+       if (mode & PTRACE_MODE_READ)
+               return MAY_READ;

        return 0;
 }
diff --git a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
index d3c19c9..cb6ed10 100644
--- a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
+++ b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ static int yama_ptrace_access_check(struct task_struct *child,
        int rc = 0;

        /* require ptrace target be a child of ptracer on attach */
-       if (mode == PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH) {
+       if (mode & PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH) {
                switch (ptrace_scope) {
                case YAMA_SCOPE_DISABLED:
                        /* No additional restrictions. */
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ static int yama_ptrace_access_check(struct task_struct *child,
                }
        }

-       if (rc) {
+       if (rc && (mode & PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT) == 0) {
                printk_ratelimited(KERN_NOTICE
                        "ptrace of pid %d was attempted by: %s (pid %d)\n",
                        child->pid, current->comm, current->pid);
--
2.1.4


-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS & Brillo Security
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help