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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2013-09-11 14:19:41 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-11 15:56:20 -0700
commit40a0d32d1eaffe6aac7324ca92604b6b3977eb0e (patch)
treec736993570ca2b16f0b7963226fda1947ec2c6b8 /kernel/fork.c
parent5167246a8ad617df55717c2d901da5e2aedffcfa (diff)
downloadlinux-40a0d32d1eaffe6aac7324ca92604b6b3977eb0e.tar.gz
fork: unify and tighten up CLONE_NEWUSER/CLONE_NEWPID checks
do_fork() denies CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_PARENT if NEWUSER | NEWPID.

Then later copy_process() denies CLONE_SIGHAND if the new process will
be in a different pid namespace (task_active_pid_ns() doesn't match
current->nsproxy->pid_ns).

This looks confusing and inconsistent.  CLONE_NEWPID is very similar to
the case when ->pid_ns was already unshared, we want the same
restrictions so copy_process() should also nack CLONE_PARENT.

And it would be better to deny CLONE_NEWUSER && CLONE_SIGHAND as well
just for consistency.

Kill the "CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWPID" check in do_fork() and change
copy_process() to do the same check along with ->pid_ns check we already
have.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Colin Walters <walters@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c24
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 68d508f2bfba..84703db06cf3 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1173,13 +1173,16 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the new process will be in a different pid namespace don't
-	 * allow it to share a thread group or signal handlers with the
-	 * forking task.
+	 * If the new process will be in a different pid or user namespace
+	 * do not allow it to share a thread group or signal handlers or
+	 * parent with the forking task.
 	 */
-	if ((clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND) && (task_active_pid_ns(current) !=
-					current->nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children))
-		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+	if (clone_flags & (CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_PARENT)) {
+		if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWPID)) ||
+		    (task_active_pid_ns(current) !=
+				current->nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children))
+			return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+	}
 
 	retval = security_task_create(clone_flags);
 	if (retval)
@@ -1576,15 +1579,6 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
 	long nr;
 
 	/*
-	 * Do some preliminary argument and permissions checking before we
-	 * actually start allocating stuff
-	 */
-	if (clone_flags & (CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWPID)) {
-		if (clone_flags & (CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_PARENT))
-			return -EINVAL;
-	}
-
-	/*
 	 * Determine whether and which event to report to ptracer.  When
 	 * called from kernel_thread or CLONE_UNTRACED is explicitly
 	 * requested, no event is reported; otherwise, report if the event