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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 42 |
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 35e0a31a0315..2ab3ead62118 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -72,6 +72,33 @@ #include <asm/unistd.h> #include <asm/mmu_context.h> +/* + * The default value should be high enough to not crash a system that randomly + * crashes its kernel from time to time, but low enough to at least not permit + * overflowing 32-bit refcounts or the ldsem writer count. + */ +static unsigned int oops_limit = 10000; + +#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL +static struct ctl_table kern_exit_table[] = { + { + .procname = "oops_limit", + .data = &oops_limit, + .maxlen = sizeof(oops_limit), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_douintvec, + }, + { } +}; + +static __init int kernel_exit_sysctls_init(void) +{ + register_sysctl_init("kernel", kern_exit_table); + return 0; +} +late_initcall(kernel_exit_sysctls_init); +#endif + static void __unhash_process(struct task_struct *p, bool group_dead) { nr_threads--; @@ -874,6 +901,8 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code) void __noreturn make_task_dead(int signr) { + static atomic_t oops_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0); + /* * Take the task off the cpu after something catastrophic has * happened. @@ -898,6 +927,19 @@ void __noreturn make_task_dead(int signr) } /* + * Every time the system oopses, if the oops happens while a reference + * to an object was held, the reference leaks. + * If the oops doesn't also leak memory, repeated oopsing can cause + * reference counters to wrap around (if they're not using refcount_t). + * This means that repeated oopsing can make unexploitable-looking bugs + * exploitable through repeated oopsing. + * To make sure this can't happen, place an upper bound on how often the + * kernel may oops without panic(). + */ + if (atomic_inc_return(&oops_count) >= READ_ONCE(oops_limit)) + panic("Oopsed too often (kernel.oops_limit is %d)", oops_limit); + + /* * We're taking recursive faults here in make_task_dead. Safest is to just * leave this task alone and wait for reboot. */ |