prctl: remove one-shot limitation for changing exe link
authorStanislav Kinsburskiy <skinsbursky@virtuozzo.com>
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:40:42 +0000 (16:40 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 02:55:06 +0000 (18:55 -0800)
commit3fb4afd9a504c2386b8435028d43283216bf588e
treeaad5f0e354c090426b8f9934162b2d5899a806f1
parentc0b942a76361e08fc9fb17989e0f266e64ff0688
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>
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/sys.c