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Re: [PATCH V37 27/29] tracefs: Restrict tracefs when the kernel is locked down

From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Date: 2019-08-13 06:11:01
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Hi

On 2019-08-01 00:16, Matthew Garrett wrote:
Tracefs may release more information about the kernel than desirable, so
restrict it when the kernel is locked down in confidentiality mode by
preventing open().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch causes the following regression on various Samsung Exynos SoC 
based boards (ARM 32bit):

[   15.364422] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 
virtual address 00000000
[   15.368775] pgd = a530ddbe
[   15.371447] [00000000] *pgd=bcd7c831
[   15.374993] Internal error: Oops: 80000007 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
[   15.380890] Modules linked in:
[   15.383929] CPU: 0 PID: 1393 Comm: perf Not tainted 
5.2.0-00027-g757ff7244358-dirty #6459
[   15.392086] Hardware name: SAMSUNG EXYNOS (Flattened Device Tree)
[   15.398164] PC is at 0x0
[   15.400687] LR is at do_dentry_open+0x22c/0x3b0
[   15.405193] pc : [<00000000>]    lr : [<c02977c4>]    psr: 60000053
[   15.411442] sp : e7317dd8  ip : 00000000  fp : 00000000
[   15.416650] r10: c0187e6c  r9 : c041f8cc  r8 : e72123c8
[   15.421858] r7 : e7317ec0  r6 : e7d89630  r5 : 00000000  r4 : e72123c0
[   15.428368] r3 : 00000000  r2 : 5ba370f3  r1 : e72123c0  r0 : e7d89630
[   15.434880] Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs off  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  
Segment none
[   15.442083] Control: 10c5387d  Table: 6726404a  DAC: 00000051
[   15.447812] Process perf (pid: 1393, stack limit = 0x17621431)
[   15.453628] Stack: (0xe7317dd8 to 0xe7318000)
...
[   15.604842] [<c02977c4>] (do_dentry_open) from [<c02aafc8>] 
(path_openat+0x5a0/0x1004)
[   15.612735] [<c02aafc8>] (path_openat) from [<c02acce8>] 
(do_filp_open+0x6c/0xd8)
[   15.620200] [<c02acce8>] (do_filp_open) from [<c0298cc4>] 
(do_sys_open+0x130/0x1f4)
[   15.627839] [<c0298cc4>] (do_sys_open) from [<c0101000>] 
(ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x28)
[   15.635560] Exception stack(0xe7317fa8 to 0xe7317ff0)
[   15.640596] 7fa0:                   0022dc0b 001deee0 ffffff9c 
beb6d764 00020000 00000000
[   15.648756] 7fc0: 0022dc0b 001deee0 0022dba8 00000142 001ba044 
00241d68 001a13d8 beb6e78c
[   15.656913] 7fe0: b6f7e000 beb6c6f8 9a27c600 b6f69504
[   15.661952] Code: bad PC value
[   15.665105] ---[ end trace 7e8b864582108f4a ]---

This is standard ARM 32bit kernel with 
arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig. It is enough to run "perf list" command.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
  fs/tracefs/inode.c           | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
  include/linux/security.h     |  1 +
  security/lockdown/lockdown.c |  1 +
  3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/inode.c b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
index 1387bcd96a79..12a325fb4cbd 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
  #include <linux/seq_file.h>
  #include <linux/magic.h>
  #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/security.h>
  
  #define TRACEFS_DEFAULT_MODE	0700
  
@@ -28,6 +29,23 @@ static struct vfsmount *tracefs_mount;
  static int tracefs_mount_count;
  static bool tracefs_registered;
  
+static int default_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
+{
+	struct dentry *dentry = filp->f_path.dentry;
+	struct file_operations *real_fops;
+	int ret;
+
+	if (!dentry)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	ret = security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_TRACEFS);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	real_fops = dentry->d_fsdata;
real_fops are NULL in my test case.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+	return real_fops->open(inode, filp);
+}
+
  static ssize_t default_read_file(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
  				 size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
  {
@@ -210,6 +228,12 @@ static int tracefs_apply_options(struct super_block *sb)
  	return 0;
  }
  
+static void tracefs_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
+		kfree(inode->i_fop);
+}
+
  static int tracefs_reconfigure(struct fs_context *fc)
  {
  	struct super_block *sb = fc->root->d_sb;
@@ -236,6 +260,7 @@ static int tracefs_show_options(struct seq_file *m, struct dentry *root)
  
  static const struct super_operations tracefs_super_operations = {
  	.statfs		= simple_statfs,
+	.destroy_inode  = tracefs_destroy_inode,
  	.show_options	= tracefs_show_options,
  };
  
@@ -372,6 +397,7 @@ struct dentry *tracefs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode,
  				   struct dentry *parent, void *data,
  				   const struct file_operations *fops)
  {
+	struct file_operations *proxy_fops;
  	struct dentry *dentry;
  	struct inode *inode;
  
@@ -387,8 +413,20 @@ struct dentry *tracefs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode,
  	if (unlikely(!inode))
  		return failed_creating(dentry);
  
+	proxy_fops = kzalloc(sizeof(struct file_operations), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (unlikely(!proxy_fops)) {
+		iput(inode);
+		return failed_creating(dentry);
+	}
+
+	if (!fops)
+		fops = &tracefs_file_operations;
+
+	dentry->d_fsdata = (void *)fops;
+	memcpy(proxy_fops, fops, sizeof(*proxy_fops));
+	proxy_fops->open = default_open_file;
  	inode->i_mode = mode;
-	inode->i_fop = fops ? fops : &tracefs_file_operations;
+	inode->i_fop = proxy_fops;
  	inode->i_private = data;
  	d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
  	fsnotify_create(dentry->d_parent->d_inode, dentry);
diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index d92323b44a3f..807dc0d24982 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ enum lockdown_reason {
  	LOCKDOWN_KPROBES,
  	LOCKDOWN_BPF_READ,
  	LOCKDOWN_PERF,
+	LOCKDOWN_TRACEFS,
  	LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX,
  };
  
diff --git a/security/lockdown/lockdown.c b/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
index 88064ce1c844..173191562047 100644
--- a/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
+++ b/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ static char *lockdown_reasons[LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX+1] = {
  	[LOCKDOWN_KPROBES] = "use of kprobes",
  	[LOCKDOWN_BPF_READ] = "use of bpf to read kernel RAM",
  	[LOCKDOWN_PERF] = "unsafe use of perf",
+	[LOCKDOWN_TRACEFS] = "use of tracefs",
  	[LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX] = "confidentiality",
  };
  
Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
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