From 452d7fea71455f2aae448de9ad769749d86273ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 20:45:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] futex: Prevent attaching to kernel threads commit f0d71b3dcb8332f7971b5f2363632573e6d9486a upstream. We happily allow userspace to declare a random kernel thread to be the owner of a user space PI futex. Found while analysing the fallout of Dave Jones syscall fuzzer. We also should validate the thread group for private futexes and find some fast way to validate whether the "alleged" owner has RW access on the file which backs the SHM, but that's a separate issue. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Darren Hart Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Clark Williams Cc: Paul McKenney Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Carlos ODonell Cc: Jakub Jelinek Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140512201701.194824402@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/futex.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index 66af37d..58743c0 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -666,6 +666,11 @@ lookup_pi_state(u32 uval, struct futex_hash_bucket *hb, if (!p) return -ESRCH; + if (!p->mm) { + put_task_struct(p); + return -EPERM; + } + /* * We need to look at the task state flags to figure out, * whether the task is exiting. To protect against the do_exit -- 2.7.4