linux/kernel
Stanislav Kinsburskiy 3fb4afd9a5 prctl: remove one-shot limitation for changing exe link
This limitation came with the reason to remove "another way for
malicious code to obscure a compromised program and masquerade as a
benign process" by allowing "security-concious program can use this
prctl once during its early initialization to ensure the prctl cannot
later be abused for this purpose":

    http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133160684517468&w=2

This explanation doesn't look sufficient.  The only thing "exe" link is
indicating is the file, used to execve, which is basically nothing and
not reliable immediately after process has returned from execve system
call.

Moreover, to use this feture, all the mappings to previous exe file have
to be unmapped and all the new exe file permissions must be satisfied.

Which means, that changing exe link is very similar to calling execve on
the binary.

The need to remove this limitations comes from migration of NFS mount
point, which is not accessible during restore and replaced by other file
system.  Because of this exe link has to be changed twice.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160927153755.9337.69650.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsburskiy <skinsbursky@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-12 18:55:06 -08:00
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bpf bpf: xdp: Allow head adjustment in XDP prog 2016-12-08 14:25:13 -05:00
configs config: android: enable CONFIG_SECCOMP 2016-10-11 15:06:32 -07:00
debug
events Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-12-10 16:21:55 -05:00
gcov gcov: add support for gcc version >= 6 2016-07-15 14:54:27 +09:00
irq genirq: Use irq type from irqdata instead of irqdesc 2016-11-08 15:15:19 +01:00
livepatch livepatch/module: make TAINT_LIVEPATCH module-specific 2016-08-26 14:42:08 +02:00
locking Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes 2016-12-11 13:07:13 +01:00
power PM / sleep: fix device reference leak in test_suspend 2016-11-02 05:10:04 +01:00
printk Revert "printk: make reading the kernel log flush pending lines" 2016-11-14 09:31:52 -08:00
rcu rcu: Don't kick unless grace period or request 2016-11-14 10:46:31 -08:00
sched Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-12 12:15:10 -08:00
time Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-12 12:15:10 -08:00
trace Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-11-22 13:27:16 -05:00
.gitignore
acct.c
async.c
audit_fsnotify.c
audit_tree.c audit: cleanup prune_tree_thread 2016-04-04 09:46:47 -04:00
audit_watch.c Merge branch 'stable-4.8' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2016-09-01 15:55:56 -07:00
audit.c audit: remove useless synchronize_net() 2016-12-01 11:29:02 -05:00
audit.h Merge branch 'stable-4.8' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2016-07-29 17:54:17 -07:00
auditfilter.c audit: add fields to exclude filter by reusing user filter 2016-06-27 11:01:00 -04:00
auditsc.c Merge branch 'stable-4.9' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2016-10-04 14:21:41 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c kernel: Add noaudit variant of ns_capable() 2016-06-06 20:16:18 +10:00
cgroup_freezer.c
cgroup_pids.c cgroup: Use lld instead of ld when printing pids controller events_limit 2016-06-21 15:03:36 -04:00
cgroup.c cgroup: add support for eBPF programs 2016-11-25 16:25:52 -05:00
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c hotplug: Make register and unregister notifier API symmetric 2016-12-08 10:08:41 +01:00
cpuset.c Merge branch 'for-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2016-10-14 12:18:50 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c cred: Reject inodes with invalid ids in set_create_file_as() 2016-06-30 18:05:09 -05:00
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c sched/autogroup: Do not use autogroup->tg in zombie threads 2016-11-22 12:33:43 +01:00
extable.c
fork.c kthread: Make struct kthread kmalloc'ed 2016-12-08 14:36:18 +01:00
freezer.c freezer, oom: check TIF_MEMDIE on the correct task 2016-07-28 16:07:41 -07:00
futex_compat.c
futex.c sched/wake_q: Rename WAKE_Q to DEFINE_WAKE_Q 2016-11-21 10:29:01 +01:00
groups.c cred: simpler, 1D supplementary groups 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
hung_task.c hung_task: allow hung_task_panic when hung_task_warnings is 0 2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
irq_work.c
jump_label.c powerpc updates for 4.8 #2 2016-08-05 09:00:54 -04:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks locking/mutex: Allow MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER when DEBUG_MUTEXES 2016-10-25 11:31:51 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt
kcov.c kcov: add missing #include <linux/sched.h> 2016-12-07 17:10:00 -08:00
kexec_core.c kexec: add restriction on kexec_load() segment sizes 2016-08-02 19:35:31 -04:00
kexec_file.c kexec: fix double-free when failing to relocate the purgatory 2016-09-01 17:52:01 -07:00
kexec_internal.h
kexec.c kexec: allow architectures to override boot mapping 2016-08-02 19:35:27 -04:00
kmod.c
kprobes.c kprobes: include <asm/sections.h> instead of <asm-generic/sections.h> 2016-10-11 15:06:31 -07:00
ksysfs.c kexec: add a kexec_crash_loaded() function 2016-08-02 19:35:30 -04:00
kthread.c kthread: add __printf attributes 2016-12-12 18:55:06 -08:00
latencytop.c
Makefile userns: Add per user namespace sysctls. 2016-08-08 13:18:58 -05:00
membarrier.c
memremap.c mm: fix cache mode of dax pmd mappings 2016-09-09 17:34:46 -07:00
module_signing.c KEYS: Move the point of trust determination to __key_link() 2016-04-11 22:43:43 +01:00
module-internal.h
module.c Re-enable CONFIG_MODVERSIONS in a slightly weaker form 2016-11-29 16:01:30 -08:00
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c padata: Convert to hotplug state machine 2016-09-19 21:44:30 +02:00
panic.c x86/panic: replace smp_send_stop() with kdump friendly version in panic path 2016-10-11 15:06:32 -07:00
params.c
pid_namespace.c Merge branch 'nsfs-ioctls' into HEAD 2016-09-22 20:00:36 -05:00
pid.c remove lots of IS_ERR_VALUE abuses 2016-05-27 15:26:11 -07:00
profile.c profile: Convert to hotplug state machine 2016-07-15 10:41:42 +02:00
ptrace.c mm: replace access_process_vm() write parameter with gup_flags 2016-10-19 08:31:25 -07:00
range.c
reboot.c
relay.c relay: Use irq_work instead of plain timer for deferred wakeup 2016-10-11 15:06:32 -07:00
resource.c /proc/iomem: only expose physical resource addresses to privileged users 2016-04-14 12:56:09 -07:00
seccomp.c bpf: drop unnecessary context cast from BPF_PROG_RUN 2016-11-27 20:38:47 -05:00
signal.c x86/signal: Add SA_{X32,IA32}_ABI sa_flags 2016-09-14 21:28:11 +02:00
smp.c kernel/smp: Tell the user we're bringing up secondary CPUs 2016-10-26 12:02:35 +02:00
smpboot.c kthread/smpboot: do not park in kthread_create_on_cpu() 2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c softirq: Display IRQ_POLL for irq-poll statistics 2016-10-21 15:45:47 -06:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c locking/core, stop_machine: Yield the CPU during stop machine() 2016-11-16 10:15:09 +01:00
sys_ni.c x86/pkeys: Fix pkeys build breakage for some non-x86 arches 2016-09-13 14:41:36 +02:00
sys.c prctl: remove one-shot limitation for changing exe link 2016-12-12 18:55:06 -08:00
sysctl_binary.c kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use generic UUID library 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
sysctl.c sched/fair: Kill the unused 'sched_shares_window_ns' tunable 2016-10-20 08:44:57 +02:00
task_work.c task_work: use READ_ONCE/lockless_dereference, avoid pi_lock if !task_works 2016-08-02 19:35:02 -04:00
taskstats.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-11-15 10:54:36 -05:00
test_kprobes.c
torture.c torture: Convert torture_shutdown() to hrtimer 2016-08-22 10:01:49 -07:00
tracepoint.c kernel/...: convert pr_warning to pr_warn 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
tsacct.c
ucount.c mntns: Add a limit on the number of mount namespaces. 2016-08-31 07:28:35 -05:00
uid16.c cred: simpler, 1D supplementary groups 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
up.c smp: Add function to execute a function synchronously on a CPU 2016-09-05 13:52:39 +02:00
user_namespace.c Merge branch 'nsfs-ioctls' into HEAD 2016-09-22 20:00:36 -05:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c Merge branch 'nsfs-ioctls' into HEAD 2016-09-22 20:00:36 -05:00
watchdog.c Revert "perf/x86/intel, watchdog: Switch NMI watchdog to ref cycles on x86" 2016-07-10 20:58:36 +02:00
workqueue_internal.h
workqueue.c kthread: rename probe_kthread_data() to kthread_probe_data() 2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00