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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2017-03-23 15:46:16 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-03-24 07:43:35 +0100
commit854fbd6e5f60fe99e8e3a569865409fca378f143 (patch)
tree7f0d56d40169921ca321b22a5c3f7074569ec52e /lib
parentebe64824e9de4b3ab3bd3928312b4b2bc57b4b7e (diff)
downloadlinux-854fbd6e5f60fe99e8e3a569865409fca378f143.tar.gz
lib/syscall: Clear return values when no stack
Commit:

  aa1f1a639621 ("lib/syscall: Pin the task stack in collect_syscall()")

... added logic to handle a process stack not existing, but left sp and pc
uninitialized, which can be later reported via /proc/$pid/syscall for zombie
processes, potentially exposing kernel memory to userspace.

  Zombie /proc/$pid/syscall before:
  -1 0xffffffff9a060100 0xffff92f42d6ad900

  Zombie /proc/$pid/syscall after:
  -1 0x0 0x0

Reported-by: Robert Święcki <robert@swiecki.net>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
Fixes: aa1f1a639621 ("lib/syscall: Pin the task stack in collect_syscall()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170323224616.GA92694@beast
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/syscall.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/syscall.c b/lib/syscall.c
index 17d5ff5fa6a3..2c6cd1b5c3ea 100644
--- a/lib/syscall.c
+++ b/lib/syscall.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ static int collect_syscall(struct task_struct *target, long *callno,
 
 	if (!try_get_task_stack(target)) {
 		/* Task has no stack, so the task isn't in a syscall. */
+		*sp = *pc = 0;
 		*callno = -1;
 		return 0;
 	}