fs/proc, core/debug: Don't expose absolute kernel addresses via wchan

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Sep 30 2015 - 09:59:17 EST


commit b2f73922d119686323f14fbbe46587f863852328 upstream.

So the /proc/PID/stat 'wchan' field (the 30th field, which contains
the absolute kernel address of the kernel function a task is blocked in)
leaks absolute kernel addresses to unprivileged user-space:

seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', wchan);

The absolute address might also leak via /proc/PID/wchan as well, if
KALLSYMS is turned off or if the symbol lookup fails for some reason:

static int proc_pid_wchan(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task)
{
unsigned long wchan;
char symname[KSYM_NAME_LEN];

wchan = get_wchan(task);

if (lookup_symbol_name(wchan, symname) < 0) {
if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ))
return 0;
seq_printf(m, "%lu", wchan);
} else {
seq_printf(m, "%s", symname);
}

return 0;
}

This isn't ideal, because for example it trivially leaks the KASLR offset
to any local attacker:

fomalhaut:~> printf "%016lx\n" $(cat /proc/$$/stat | cut -d' ' -f35)
ffffffff8123b380

Most real-life uses of wchan are symbolic:

ps -eo pid:10,tid:10,wchan:30,comm

and procps uses /proc/PID/wchan, not the absolute address in /proc/PID/stat:

triton:~/tip> strace -f ps -eo pid:10,tid:10,wchan:30,comm 2>&1 | grep wchan | tail -1
open("/proc/30833/wchan", O_RDONLY) = 6

There's one compatibility quirk here: procps relies on whether the
absolute value is non-zero - and we can provide that functionality
by outputing "0" or "1" depending on whether the task is blocked
(whether there's a wchan address).

These days there appears to be very little legitimate reason
user-space would be interested in the absolute address. The
absolute address is mostly historic: from the days when we
didn't have kallsyms and user-space procps had to do the
decoding itself via the System.map.

So this patch sets all numeric output to "0" or "1" and keeps only
symbolic output, in /proc/PID/wchan.

( The absolute sleep address can generally still be profiled via
perf, by tasks with sufficient privileges. )

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kasan-dev <kasan-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150930135917.GA3285@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ kamal: backport to 3.13-stable: proc_pid_wchan context ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 5 +++--
fs/proc/array.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
fs/proc/base.c | 9 +++------
3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index d49f0be..dad2936 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /proc
stat Process status
statm Process memory status information
status Process status in human readable form
- wchan If CONFIG_KALLSYMS is set, a pre-decoded wchan
+ wchan Present with CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y: it shows the kernel function
+ symbol the task is blocked in - or "0" if not blocked.
pagemap Page table
stack Report full stack trace, enable via CONFIG_STACKTRACE
smaps a extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption of
@@ -301,7 +302,7 @@ Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.30-rc7)
blocked bitmap of blocked signals
sigign bitmap of ignored signals
sigcatch bitmap of catched signals
- wchan address where process went to sleep
+ 0 (place holder, used to be the wchan address, use /proc/PID/wchan instead)
0 (place holder)
0 (place holder)
exit_signal signal to send to parent thread on exit
diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
index fafb03d..78f0f1d 100644
--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ int proc_pid_status(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task, int whole)
{
- unsigned long vsize, eip, esp, wchan = ~0UL;
+ unsigned long vsize, eip, esp, wchan = 0;
int priority, nice;
int tty_pgrp = -1, tty_nr = 0;
sigset_t sigign, sigcatch;
@@ -518,7 +518,19 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', task->blocked.sig[0] & 0x7fffffffUL);
seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', sigign.sig[0] & 0x7fffffffUL);
seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', sigcatch.sig[0] & 0x7fffffffUL);
- seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', wchan);
+
+ /*
+ * We used to output the absolute kernel address, but that's an
+ * information leak - so instead we show a 0/1 flag here, to signal
+ * to user-space whether there's a wchan field in /proc/PID/wchan.
+ *
+ * This works with older implementations of procps as well.
+ */
+ if (wchan)
+ seq_puts(m, " 1");
+ else
+ seq_puts(m, " 0");
+
seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', 0);
seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', 0);
seq_put_decimal_ll(m, ' ', task->exit_signal);
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 55145c1..0d9205f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -268,13 +268,10 @@ static int proc_pid_wchan(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer)

wchan = get_wchan(task);

- if (lookup_symbol_name(wchan, symname) < 0)
- if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ))
- return 0;
- else
- return sprintf(buffer, "%lu", wchan);
- else
+ if (wchan && ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ) && !lookup_symbol_name(wchan, symname))
return sprintf(buffer, "%s", symname);
+ else
+ return sprintf(buffer, "0");
}
#endif /* CONFIG_KALLSYMS */

--
1.9.1

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