[PATCH v2] perf: Require CAP_KILL if sigtrap is requested

From: Marco Elver
Date: Thu Jul 01 2021 - 04:40:53 EST


If perf_event_open() is called with another task as target and
perf_event_attr::sigtrap is set, and the target task's user does not
match the calling user, also require the CAP_KILL capability.

Otherwise, with the CAP_PERFMON capability alone it would be possible
for a user to send SIGTRAP signals via perf events to another user's
tasks. This could potentially result in those tasks being terminated if
they cannot handle SIGTRAP signals.

Note: The check complements the existing capability check, but is not
supposed to supersede the ptrace_may_access() check. At a high level we
now have:

capable of CAP_PERFMON and (CAP_KILL if sigtrap)
OR
ptrace_may_access() // also checks for same thread-group and uid

Fixes: 97ba62b27867 ("perf: Add support for SIGTRAP on perf events")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 5.13+
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
* Drop kill_capable() and just check CAP_KILL (reported by Ondrej Mosnacek).
* Use ns_capable(__task_cred(task)->user_ns, CAP_KILL) to check for
capability in target task's ns (reported by Ondrej Mosnacek).
---
kernel/events/core.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index fe88d6eea3c2..43c99695dc3f 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -12152,10 +12152,23 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
}

if (task) {
+ bool is_capable;
+
err = down_read_interruptible(&task->signal->exec_update_lock);
if (err)
goto err_file;

+ is_capable = perfmon_capable();
+ if (attr.sigtrap) {
+ /*
+ * perf_event_attr::sigtrap sends signals to the other
+ * task. Require the current task to have CAP_KILL.
+ */
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ is_capable &= ns_capable(__task_cred(task)->user_ns, CAP_KILL);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ }
+
/*
* Preserve ptrace permission check for backwards compatibility.
*
@@ -12165,7 +12178,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
* perf_event_exit_task() that could imply).
*/
err = -EACCES;
- if (!perfmon_capable() && !ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS))
+ if (!is_capable && !ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS))
goto err_cred;
}

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2.32.0.93.g670b81a890-goog