Re: [PATCH v2] procfs: block chmod on /proc/thread-self/comm

[Christian Brauner]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:09:58 +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> Due to an oversight in commit 1b3044e39a89 ("procfs: fix pthread
> cross-thread naming if !PR_DUMPABLE") in switching from REG to NOD,
> chmod operations on /proc/thread-self/comm were no longer blocked as
> they are on almost all other procfs files.
> 
> A very similar situation with /proc/self/environ was used to as a root
> exploit a long time ago, but procfs has SB_I_NOEXEC so this is simply a
> correctness issue.
> 
> [...]

Just to reiterate: The long term fix to avoid these odd behavioral bugs
in the future is to remove the fallback to simple_setattr() we still
have in notify_change() that happens when no setattr inode operation has
been explicitly defined. To do this we need to change all filesystem
that rely on this fallback to explicitly set simple_setattr() as their
inode operation. Then notify_change() would simply return EOPNOTSUPP
when no setattr iop is defined making such omissions pretty obvious.

But that's a bigger patch. This is a backportable fix for this issue.
Needs long soaking in -next ofc.

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Applied to the fs.proc.uapi branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the fs.proc.uapi branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: fs.proc.uapi

[1/1] procfs: block chmod on /proc/thread-self/comm
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/ccf61486fe1e