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authorOndrej Mosnacek <[email protected]>2022-07-08 11:34:51 +0200
committerPaul Moore <[email protected]>2022-08-30 16:04:31 -0400
commitabec3d015fdfb7c63105c7e1c956188bf381aa55 (patch)
tree0b08d9667430f799571ac6ffaef6c04210c8e873
parented5d44d42c95e8a13bb54e614d2269c8740667f9 (diff)
userfaultfd: open userfaultfds with O_RDONLY
Since userfaultfd doesn't implement a write operation, it is more appropriate to open it read-only. When userfaultfds are opened read-write like it is now, and such fd is passed from one process to another, SELinux will check both read and write permissions for the target process, even though it can't actually do any write operation on the fd later. Inspired by the following bug report, which has hit the SELinux scenario described above: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1974559 Reported-by: Robert O'Callahan <[email protected]> Fixes: 86039bd3b4e6 ("userfaultfd: add new syscall to provide memory externalization") Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <[email protected]> Acked-by: Peter Xu <[email protected]> Acked-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--fs/userfaultfd.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c
index 1c44bf75f916..e6ffe7bc59e3 100644
--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ static int resolve_userfault_fork(struct userfaultfd_ctx *new,
int fd;
fd = anon_inode_getfd_secure("[userfaultfd]", &userfaultfd_fops, new,
- O_RDWR | (new->flags & UFFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS), inode);
+ O_RDONLY | (new->flags & UFFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS), inode);
if (fd < 0)
return fd;
@@ -2090,7 +2090,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(userfaultfd, int, flags)
mmgrab(ctx->mm);
fd = anon_inode_getfd_secure("[userfaultfd]", &userfaultfd_fops, ctx,
- O_RDWR | (flags & UFFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS), NULL);
+ O_RDONLY | (flags & UFFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS), NULL);
if (fd < 0) {
mmdrop(ctx->mm);
kmem_cache_free(userfaultfd_ctx_cachep, ctx);