[PATCH 4.2 075/124] fs/proc, core/debug: Dont expose absolute kernel addresses via wchan

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt |    5 +++--
 fs/proc/array.c                    |   16 ++++++++++++++--
 fs/proc/base.c                     |    9 +++------
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /
  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
@@ -310,7 +311,7 @@ Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (a
   blocked       bitmap of blocked signals
   sigign        bitmap of ignored signals
   sigcatch      bitmap of caught 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
--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ int proc_pid_status(struct seq_file *m,
 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;
@@ -504,7 +504,19 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file
 	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);
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -430,13 +430,10 @@ static int proc_pid_wchan(struct seq_fil
 
 	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 {
+	if (wchan && ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ) && !lookup_symbol_name(wchan, symname))
 		seq_printf(m, "%s", symname);
-	}
+	else
+		seq_putc(m, '0');
 
 	return 0;
 }


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