This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fs/proc, core/debug: Don't expose absolute kernel addresses via wchan
to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
fs-proc-core-debug-don-t-expose-absolute-kernel-addresses-via-wchan.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From b2f73922d119686323f14fbbe46587f863852328 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:59:17 +0200
Subject: fs/proc, core/debug: Don't expose absolute kernel addresses via wchan
From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
commit b2f73922d119686323f14fbbe46587f863852328 upstream.
So the /proc/PID/stat 'wchan' field (the 30th field, which contains
the absolute kernel address of the kernel function a task is blocked in)
leaks absolute kernel addresses to unprivileged user-space:
seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', wchan);
The absolute address might also leak via /proc/PID/wchan as well, if
KALLSYMS is turned off or if the symbol lookup fails for some reason:
static int proc_pid_wchan(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task)
{
unsigned long wchan;
char symname[KSYM_NAME_LEN];
wchan = get_wchan(task);
if (lookup_symbol_name(wchan, symname) < 0) {
if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ))
return 0;
seq_printf(m, "%lu", wchan);
} else {
seq_printf(m, "%s", symname);
}
return 0;
}
This isn't ideal, because for example it trivially leaks the KASLR offset
to any local attacker:
fomalhaut:~> printf "%016lx\n" $(cat /proc/$$/stat | cut -d' ' -f35)
ffffffff8123b380
Most real-life uses of wchan are symbolic:
ps -eo pid:10,tid:10,wchan:30,comm
and procps uses /proc/PID/wchan, not the absolute address in /proc/PID/stat:
triton:~/tip> strace -f ps -eo pid:10,tid:10,wchan:30,comm 2>&1 | grep wchan
| tail -1
open("/proc/30833/wchan", O_RDONLY) = 6
There's one compatibility quirk here: procps relies on whether the
absolute value is non-zero - and we can provide that functionality
by outputing "0" or "1" depending on whether the task is blocked
(whether there's a wchan address).
These days there appears to be very little legitimate reason
user-space would be interested in the absolute address. The
absolute address is mostly historic: from the days when we
didn't have kallsyms and user-space procps had to do the
decoding itself via the System.map.
So this patch sets all numeric output to "0" or "1" and keeps only
symbolic output, in /proc/PID/wchan.
( The absolute sleep address can generally still be profiled via
perf, by tasks with sufficient privileges. )
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Cc: kasan-dev <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 5 +++--
fs/proc/array.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
fs/proc/base.c | 9 +++------
3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /
stat Process status
statm Process memory status information
status Process status in human readable form
- wchan If CONFIG_KALLSYMS is set, a pre-decoded wchan
+ wchan Present with CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y: it shows the kernel function
+ symbol the task is blocked in - or "0" if not blocked.
pagemap Page table
stack Report full stack trace, enable via CONFIG_STACKTRACE
smaps a extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption of
@@ -310,7 +311,7 @@ Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (a
blocked bitmap of blocked signals
sigign bitmap of ignored signals
sigcatch bitmap of caught signals
- wchan address where process went to sleep
+ 0 (place holder, used to be the wchan address, use
/proc/PID/wchan instead)
0 (place holder)
0 (place holder)
exit_signal signal to send to parent thread on exit
--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ int proc_pid_status(struct seq_file *m,
static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task, int whole)
{
- unsigned long vsize, eip, esp, wchan = ~0UL;
+ unsigned long vsize, eip, esp, wchan = 0;
int priority, nice;
int tty_pgrp = -1, tty_nr = 0;
sigset_t sigign, sigcatch;
@@ -504,7 +504,19 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file
seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', task->blocked.sig[0] & 0x7fffffffUL);
seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', sigign.sig[0] & 0x7fffffffUL);
seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', sigcatch.sig[0] & 0x7fffffffUL);
- seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', wchan);
+
+ /*
+ * We used to output the absolute kernel address, but that's an
+ * information leak - so instead we show a 0/1 flag here, to signal
+ * to user-space whether there's a wchan field in /proc/PID/wchan.
+ *
+ * This works with older implementations of procps as well.
+ */
+ if (wchan)
+ seq_puts(m, " 1");
+ else
+ seq_puts(m, " 0");
+
seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', 0);
seq_put_decimal_ull(m, ' ', 0);
seq_put_decimal_ll(m, ' ', task->exit_signal);
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -430,13 +430,10 @@ static int proc_pid_wchan(struct seq_fil
wchan = get_wchan(task);
- if (lookup_symbol_name(wchan, symname) < 0) {
- if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ))
- return 0;
- seq_printf(m, "%lu", wchan);
- } else {
+ if (wchan && ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ) &&
!lookup_symbol_name(wchan, symname))
seq_printf(m, "%s", symname);
- }
+ else
+ seq_putc(m, '0');
return 0;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.2/x86-fpu-fix-get_xsave_addr-behavior-under-virtualization.patch
queue-4.2/x86-mpx-do-proper-get_user-when-running-32-bit-binaries-on-64-bit-kernels.patch
queue-4.2/x86-setup-extend-low-identity-map-to-cover-whole-kernel-range.patch
queue-4.2/x86-mpx-fix-32-bit-address-space-calculation.patch
queue-4.2/fs-proc-core-debug-don-t-expose-absolute-kernel-addresses-via-wchan.patch
queue-4.2/x86-fpu-fix-32-bit-signal-frame-handling.patch
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