Re: [GIT PULL] Fix fill_files_note

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Mar 09 2022 - 11:50:51 EST


On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 10:29:10AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 01:35:03PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >>
> >> Kees,
> >>
> >> Please pull the coredump-vma-snapshot-fix branch from the git tree:
> >>
> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git coredump-vma-snapshot-fix
> >>
> >> HEAD: 390031c942116d4733310f0684beb8db19885fe6 coredump: Use the vma snapshot in fill_files_note
> >>
> >> Matthew Wilcox has reported that a missing mmap_lock in file_files_note,
> >> which could cause trouble.
> >>
> >> Refactor the code and clean it up so that the vma snapshot makes
> >> it to fill_files_note, and then use the vma snapshot in fill_files_note.
> >>
> >> Eric W. Biederman (5):
> >> coredump: Move definition of struct coredump_params into coredump.h
> >> coredump: Snapshot the vmas in do_coredump
> >> coredump: Remove the WARN_ON in dump_vma_snapshot
> >> coredump/elf: Pass coredump_params into fill_note_info
> >> coredump: Use the vma snapshot in fill_files_note
> >>
> >> fs/binfmt_elf.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
> >> fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c | 18 +++++--------
> >> fs/binfmt_flat.c | 1 +
> >> fs/coredump.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> >> include/linux/binfmts.h | 13 +---------
> >> include/linux/coredump.h | 20 ++++++++++++---
> >> 6 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Kees I realized I needed to rebase this on Jann Horn's commit
> >> 84158b7f6a06 ("coredump: Also dump first pages of non-executable ELF
> >> libraries"). Unfortunately before I got that done I got distracted and
> >> these changes have been sitting in limbo for most of the development
> >> cycle. Since you are running a tree that is including changes like this
> >> including Jann's can you please pull these changes into your tree.
> >
> > Sure! Can you make a signed tag for this pull?
>
> Not yet.
>
> Hopefully I will get the time to set that up soon, but I am not at all
> setup to do signed tags at this point.

Okay, cool. Since I'd already review these before, I've pulled and it
should be in -next now.

> [...]
> Thanks. That looks like a good place to start.

I will try to clean up that work-flow and stuff it into my kernel-tools
repo.

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Kees Cook