[PATCH] lib/syscall: Pin the task stack in collect_syscall()

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Thu Sep 08 2016 - 02:36:26 EST


This will avoid a potential read-after-free if collect_syscall()
(e.g. /proc/PID/syscall) is called on an exiting task.

Reported-by: Jann Horn <jann@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Ingo-

This applies on top of the patches I sent out earlier. If you want
to avoid any possible bisection issue, you could also apply it in
the middle of the series: put it right after "x86/process: Pin the
target stack in get_wchan".

lib/syscall.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/syscall.c b/lib/syscall.c
index e30e03932480..63239e097b13 100644
--- a/lib/syscall.c
+++ b/lib/syscall.c
@@ -7,9 +7,19 @@ static int collect_syscall(struct task_struct *target, long *callno,
unsigned long args[6], unsigned int maxargs,
unsigned long *sp, unsigned long *pc)
{
- struct pt_regs *regs = task_pt_regs(target);
- if (unlikely(!regs))
+ struct pt_regs *regs;
+
+ if (!try_get_task_stack(target)) {
+ /* Task has no stack, so the task isn't in a syscall. */
+ *callno = -1;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ regs = task_pt_regs(target);
+ if (unlikely(!regs)) {
+ put_task_stack(target);
return -EAGAIN;
+ }

*sp = user_stack_pointer(regs);
*pc = instruction_pointer(regs);
@@ -18,6 +28,7 @@ static int collect_syscall(struct task_struct *target, long *callno,
if (*callno != -1L && maxargs > 0)
syscall_get_arguments(target, regs, 0, maxargs, args);

+ put_task_stack(target);
return 0;
}

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2.7.4