Re: [PATCH v8 5/9] seccomp: split mode set routines
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Date: 2014-06-25 13:53:08
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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Date: 2014-06-25 13:53:08
Also in:
linux-api, linux-arm-kernel, linux-mips, lkml
On 06/24, Kees Cook wrote:
+static inline void seccomp_assign_mode(struct task_struct *task,
+ unsigned long seccomp_mode)
+{
+ BUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&task->sighand->siglock));
+
+ task->seccomp.mode = seccomp_mode;
+ set_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_SECCOMP);
+}OK, but unless task == current this can race with secure_computing(). I think this needs smp_mb__before_atomic() and secure_computing() needs rmb() after test_bit(TIF_SECCOMP). Otherwise, can't __secure_computing() hit BUG() if it sees the old mode == SECCOMP_MODE_DISABLED ? Or seccomp_run_filters() can see ->filters == NULL and WARN(), smp_load_acquire() only serializes that LOAD with the subsequent memory operations. Oleg.