[PATCH] mm/madvise: process_madvise() drop capability check if same mm

[Lorenzo Stoakes]

In commit 96cfe2c0fd23 ("mm/madvise: replace ptrace attach requirement for
process_madvise") process_madvise() was updated to require the caller to
possess the CAP_SYS_NICE capability to perform the operation, in addition
to a check against PTRACE_MODE_READ performed by mm_access().

The mm_access() function explicitly checks to see if the address space of
the process being referenced is the current one, in which case no check is
performed.

We, however, do not do this when checking the CAP_SYS_NICE capability. This
means that we insist on the caller possessing this capability in order to
perform madvise() operations on its own address space, which seems
nonsensical.

Simply add a check to allow for an invocation of this function with pidfd
set to the current process without elevation.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/madvise.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 4e64770be16c..ff139e57cca2 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -1520,7 +1520,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(process_madvise, int, pidfd, const struct iovec __user *, vec,
 	 * Require CAP_SYS_NICE for influencing process performance. Note that
 	 * only non-destructive hints are currently supported.
 	 */
-	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
+	if (mm != current->mm && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
 		ret = -EPERM;
 		goto release_mm;
 	}
-- 
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