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authorThomas Gleixner <[email protected]>2014-05-12 20:45:35 +0000
committerThomas Gleixner <[email protected]>2014-05-19 21:18:49 +0900
commitf0d71b3dcb8332f7971b5f2363632573e6d9486a (patch)
tree115d8f0d90dfd28a97dcf8f9861151261e6d8848
parent866293ee54227584ffcb4a42f69c1f365974ba7f (diff)
futex: Prevent attaching to kernel threads
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 <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Jones <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Darren Hart <[email protected]> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: Clark Williams <[email protected]> Cc: Paul McKenney <[email protected]> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]> Cc: Roland McGrath <[email protected]> Cc: Carlos ODonell <[email protected]> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <[email protected]> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 7c68225e3967..81dbe773ce4c 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -814,6 +814,11 @@ 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