Re: [PATCH] perf record: Fix segfault when running with suid and kptr_restrict is 1

From: Wangnan (F)
Date: Tue Sep 20 2016 - 23:58:11 EST




On 2016/9/21 11:48, Wang Nan wrote:
Before this patch perf panic if kptr_restrict set to 1 and perf is owned
by root with suid set:

$ whoami
wangnan
$ ls -l ./perf
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 19781908 Sep 21 19:29 /home/wangnan/perf
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
1
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid
-1
$ ./perf record -a
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

The reason is perf assumes it is allowed to read kptr from /proc/kallsyms
when euid is root, but in fact kernel doesn't allow it reading kptr when
euid and uid are not match with each other:

$ cp /bin/cat .
$ sudo chown root:root ./cat
$ sudo chmod u+s ./cat
$ cat /proc/kallsyms | grep do_fork
0000000000000000 T _do_fork <--- kptr is hidden even euid is root
$ sudo cat /proc/kallsyms | grep do_fork
ffffffff81080230 T _do_fork

See lib/vsprintf.c for kernel side code.

This patch fixes this problem by checking both uid and euid.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index 19c9c55..9528702 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -1946,8 +1946,9 @@ static bool symbol__read_kptr_restrict(void)
if (fp != NULL) {
char line[8];
+


Sorry for this blank line. Will fix it.

if (fgets(line, sizeof(line), fp) != NULL)
- value = (geteuid() != 0) ?
+ value = ((geteuid() != 0) || (getuid() != 0)) ?
(atoi(line) != 0) :
(atoi(line) == 2);