Patch "proc: fix coredump vs read /proc/*/stat race" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

proc: fix coredump vs read /proc/*/stat race

to the 4.9-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:
proc-fix-coredump-vs-read-proc-stat-race.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:34:05 -0800
Subject: proc: fix coredump vs read /proc/*/stat race

From: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]>

commit 8bb2ee192e482c5d500df9f2b1b26a560bd3026f upstream.

do_task_stat() accesses IP and SP of a task without bumping reference count of a stack (which became an entity with independent lifetime at some point).

Steps to reproduce:

    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <sys/stat.h>
    #include <fcntl.h>
    #include <sys/time.h>
    #include <sys/resource.h>
    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <sys/wait.h>

    int main(void)
    {
    	setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &(struct rlimit){});

    	while (1) {
    		char buf[64];
    		char buf2[4096];
    		pid_t pid;
    		int fd;

    		pid = fork();
    		if (pid == 0) {
    			*(volatile int *)0 = 0;
    		}

    		snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "/proc/%u/stat", pid);
    		fd = open(buf, O_RDONLY);
    		read(fd, buf2, sizeof(buf2));
    		close(fd);

    		waitpid(pid, NULL, 0);
    	}
    	return 0;
    }

    BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000003fd8
    IP: do_task_stat+0x8b4/0xaf0
    PGD 800000003d73e067 P4D 800000003d73e067 PUD 3d558067 PMD 0
    Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
    CPU: 0 PID: 1417 Comm: a.out Not tainted 4.15.0-rc8-dirty #2
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1.fc27 04/01/2014
    RIP: 0010:do_task_stat+0x8b4/0xaf0
    Call Trace:
     proc_single_show+0x43/0x70
     seq_read+0xe6/0x3b0
     __vfs_read+0x1e/0x120
     vfs_read+0x84/0x110
     SyS_read+0x3d/0xa0
     entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x6c
    RIP: 0033:0x7f4d7928cba0
    RSP: 002b:00007ffddb245158 EFLAGS: 00000246
    Code: 03 b7 a0 01 00 00 4c 8b 4c 24 70 4c 8b 44 24 78 4c 89 74 24 18 e9 91 f9 ff ff f6 45 4d 02 0f 84 fd f7 ff ff 48 8b 45 40 48 89 ef <48> 8b 80 d8 3f 00 00 48 89 44 24 20 e8 9b 97 eb ff 48 89 44 24
    RIP: do_task_stat+0x8b4/0xaf0 RSP: ffffc90000607cc8
    CR2: 0000000000003fd8

John Ogness said: for my tests I added an else case to verify that the race is hit and correctly mitigated.

---
 fs/proc/array.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -423,8 +423,11 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file
 		 * safe because the task has stopped executing permanently.
 		 */
 		if (permitted && (task->flags & PF_DUMPCORE)) {
-			eip = KSTK_EIP(task);
-			esp = KSTK_ESP(task);
+			if (try_get_task_stack(task)) {
+				eip = KSTK_EIP(task);
+				esp = KSTK_ESP(task);
+				put_task_stack(task);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/proc-fix-coredump-vs-read-proc-stat-race.patch