Re: [PATCH 1/3] coredump: Fixes core_pipe_limit sysctl proc_handler

[Lin Feng]

Hi,

see comments below please.

On 11/12/24 21:13, nicolas.bouchinet@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Nicolas Bouchinet <nicolas.bouchinet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> proc_dointvec converts a string to a vector of signed int, which is
> stored in the unsigned int .data core_pipe_limit.
> It was thus authorized to write a negative value to core_pipe_limit
> sysctl which once stored in core_pipe_limit, leads to the signed int
> dump_count check against core_pipe_limit never be true. The same can be
> achieved with core_pipe_limit set to INT_MAX.
> 
> Any negative write or >= to INT_MAX in core_pipe_limit sysctl would
> hypothetically allow a user to create very high load on the system by
> running processes that produces a coredump in case the core_pattern
> sysctl is configured to pipe core files to user space helper.
> Memory or PID exhaustion should happen before but it anyway breaks the
> core_pipe_limit semantic
> 
> This commit fixes this by changing core_pipe_limit sysctl's proc_handler
> to proc_dointvec_minmax and bound checking between SYSCTL_ZERO and
> SYSCTL_INT_MAX.
> 
> Fixes: a293980c2e26 ("exec: let do_coredump() limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipes")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Bouchinet <nicolas.bouchinet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/coredump.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
> index 7f12ff6ad1d3e..8ea5896e518dd 100644
> --- a/fs/coredump.c
> +++ b/fs/coredump.c
> @@ -616,7 +616,8 @@ void do_coredump(const kernel_siginfo_t *siginfo)
>  		cprm.limit = RLIM_INFINITY;
>  
>  		dump_count = atomic_inc_return(&core_dump_count);
> -		if (core_pipe_limit && (core_pipe_limit < dump_count)) {
> +		if ((core_pipe_limit && (core_pipe_limit < dump_count)) ||
> +		    (core_pipe_limit && dump_count == INT_MAX)) {

While comparing between 'unsigned int' and 'signed int', C deems them both
to 'unsigned int', so as an insane user sets core_pipe_limit to INT_MAX,
and dump_count(signed int) does overflow INT_MAX, checking for 
'core_pipe_limit < dump_count' is passed, thus codes skips core dump.

So IMO it's enough after changing proc_handler to proc_dointvec_minmax.

Others in this patch:
Reviewed-by: Lin Feng <linf@xxxxxxxxxx>

>  			printk(KERN_WARNING "Pid %d(%s) over core_pipe_limit\n",
>  			       task_tgid_vnr(current), current->comm);
>  			printk(KERN_WARNING "Skipping core dump\n");
> @@ -1024,7 +1025,9 @@ static struct ctl_table coredump_sysctls[] = {
>  		.data		= &core_pipe_limit,
>  		.maxlen		= sizeof(unsigned int),
>  		.mode		= 0644,
> -		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
> +		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
> +		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
> +		.extra2		= SYSCTL_INT_MAX,
>  	},
>  	{
>  		.procname       = "core_file_note_size_limit",