[PATCH 1/3] prctl: reduce permissions to change boundaries of data, brk and stack

[Andrey Vagin]

Currently this operation requires the global CAP_SYS_RESOURCE.
It's required, because a task can exceed limits (RLIMIT_DATA,
RLIMIT_STACK).

So let's allow task to change these parameters if a proper limit is
unlimited.

When we restore a task we need to set up text, data and data heap sizes
from userspace to the values a task had at checkpoint time.

Currently we can not restore these parameters, if a task lives in
a non-root user name space, because it has no capabilities in the
parent namespace.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Aditya Kali <adityakali@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sys.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index c0a58be..939370c 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1701,8 +1701,23 @@ static int prctl_set_mm(int opt, unsigned long addr,
 	if (arg5 || (arg4 && opt != PR_SET_MM_AUXV))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
-		return -EPERM;
+	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)) {
+		switch (opt) {
+		case PR_SET_MM_START_DATA:
+		case PR_SET_MM_END_DATA:
+		case PR_SET_MM_START_BRK:
+		case PR_SET_MM_BRK:
+			if (rlim < RLIM_INFINITY)
+				return -EPERM;
+			break;
+		case PR_SET_MM_START_STACK:
+			if (rlimit(RLIMIT_STACK) < RLIM_INFINITY)
+				return -EPERM;
+			break;
+		default:
+			return -EPERM;
+		}
+	}
 
 	if (opt == PR_SET_MM_EXE_FILE)
 		return prctl_set_mm_exe_file(mm, (unsigned int)addr);
-- 
1.8.5.3

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