linux/kernel/sys.c, branch v3.5-rc2

c/r: prctl: drop VMA flags test on PR_SET_MM_ stack data assignment

2012-06-07T21:43:55Z

In commit b76437579d13 ("procfs: mark thread stack correctly in proc//maps") the stack allocated via clone() is marked in /proc//maps as [stack:%d] thus it might be out of the former mm->start_stack/end_stack values (and even has some custom VMA flags set). So to be able to restore mm->start_stack/end_stack drop vma flags test, but still require the underlying VMA to exist. As always note this feature is under CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE and requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE to be granted. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

c/r: prctl: add ability to get clear_tid_address

2012-06-07T21:43:55Z

Zero is written at clear_tid_address when the process exits. This functionality is used by pthread_join(). We already have sys_set_tid_address() to change this address for the current task but there is no way to obtain it from user space. Without the ability to find this address and dump it we can't restore pthread'ed apps which call pthread_join() once they have been restored. This patch introduces the PR_GET_TID_ADDRESS prctl option which allows the current process to obtain own clear_tid_address. This feature is available iif CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE is set. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix prctl numbering] Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Pedro Alves Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

c/r: prctl: add minimal address test to PR_SET_MM

2012-06-07T21:43:55Z

Make sure the address being set is greater than mmap_min_addr (as suggested by Kees Cook). Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

c/r: prctl: update prctl_set_mm_exe_file() after mm->num_exe_file_vmas removal

2012-06-07T21:43:55Z

A fix for commit b32dfe377102 ("c/r: prctl: add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file"). After removing mm->num_exe_file_vmas kernel keeps mm->exe_file until final mmput(), it never becomes NULL while task is alive. We can check for other mapped files in mm instead of checking mm->num_exe_file_vmas, and mark mm with flag MMF_EXE_FILE_CHANGED in order to forbid second changing of mm->exe_file. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Matt Helsley Cc: Kees Cook Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

c/r: prctl: add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file

2012-06-01T00:49:32Z

When we do restore we would like to have a way to setup a former mm_struct::exe_file so that /proc/pid/exe would point to the original executable file a process had at checkpoint time. For this the PR_SET_MM_EXE_FILE code is introduced. This option takes a file descriptor which will be set as a source for new /proc/$pid/exe symlink. Note it allows to change /proc/$pid/exe if there are no VM_EXECUTABLE vmas present for current process, simply because this feature is a special to C/R and mm::num_exe_file_vmas become meaningless after that. To minimize the amount of transition the /proc/pid/exe symlink might have, this feature is implemented in one-shot manner. Thus once changed the symlink can't be changed again. This should help sysadmins to monitor the symlinks over all process running in a system. In particular one could make a snapshot of processes and ring alarm if there unexpected changes of /proc/pid/exe's in a system. Note -- this feature is available iif CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE is set and the caller must have CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability granted, otherwise the request to change symlink will be rejected. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Matt Helsley Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

c/r: prctl: extend PR_SET_MM to set up more mm_struct entries

2012-06-01T00:49:32Z

During checkpoint we dump whole process memory to a file and the dump includes process stack memory. But among stack data itself, the stack carries additional parameters such as command line arguments, environment data and auxiliary vector. So when we do restore procedure and once we've restored stack data itself we need to setup mm_struct::arg_start/end, env_start/end, so restored process would be able to find command line arguments and environment data it had at checkpoint time. The same applies to auxiliary vector. For this reason additional PR_SET_MM_(ARG_START | ARG_END | ENV_START | ENV_END | AUXV) codes are introduced. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Andrew Vagin Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Michael Kerrisk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kmod: convert two call sites to call_usermodehelper_fns()

2012-06-01T00:49:28Z

Both kernel/sys.c && security/keys/request_key.c where inlining the exact same code as call_usermodehelper_fns(); So simply convert these sites to directly use call_usermodehelper_fns(). Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sethostname/setdomainname: notify userspace when there is a change in uts_kern_table

2012-06-01T00:49:26Z

sethostname() and setdomainname() notify userspace on failure (without modifying uts_kern_table). Change things so that we only notify userspace on success, when uts_kern_table was actually modified. Signed-off-by: Sasikantha babu Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: WANG Cong Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2012-05-24T00:42:39Z

Pull user namespace enhancements from Eric Biederman: "This is a course correction for the user namespace, so that we can reach an inexpensive, maintainable, and reasonably complete implementation. Highlights: - Config guards make it impossible to enable the user namespace and code that has not been converted to be user namespace safe. - Use of the new kuid_t type ensures the if you somehow get past the config guards the kernel will encounter type errors if you enable user namespaces and attempt to compile in code whose permission checks have not been updated to be user namespace safe. - All uids from child user namespaces are mapped into the initial user namespace before they are processed. Removing the need to add an additional check to see if the user namespace of the compared uids remains the same. - With the user namespaces compiled out the performance is as good or better than it is today. - For most operations absolutely nothing changes performance or operationally with the user namespace enabled. - The worst case performance I could come up with was timing 1 billion cache cold stat operations with the user namespace code enabled. This went from 156s to 164s on my laptop (or 156ns to 164ns per stat operation). - (uid_t)-1 and (gid_t)-1 are reserved as an internal error value. Most uid/gid setting system calls treat these value specially anyway so attempting to use -1 as a uid would likely cause entertaining failures in userspace. - If setuid is called with a uid that can not be mapped setuid fails. I have looked at sendmail, login, ssh and every other program I could think of that would call setuid and they all check for and handle the case where setuid fails. - If stat or a similar system call is called from a context in which we can not map a uid we lie and return overflowuid. The LFS experience suggests not lying and returning an error code might be better, but the historical precedent with uids is different and I can not think of anything that would break by lying about a uid we can't map. - Capabilities are localized to the current user namespace making it safe to give the initial user in a user namespace all capabilities. My git tree covers all of the modifications needed to convert the core kernel and enough changes to make a system bootable to runlevel 1." Fix up trivial conflicts due to nearby independent changes in fs/stat.c * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (46 commits) userns: Silence silly gcc warning. cred: use correct cred accessor with regards to rcu read lock userns: Convert the move_pages, and migrate_pages permission checks to use uid_eq userns: Convert cgroup permission checks to use uid_eq userns: Convert tmpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert sysfs to use kgid/kuid where appropriate userns: Convert sysctl permission checks to use kuid and kgids. userns: Convert proc to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ext4 to user kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ext3 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ext2 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate. userns: Convert devpts to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert binary formats to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Add negative depends on entries to avoid building code that is userns unsafe userns: signal remove unnecessary map_cred_ns userns: Teach inode_capable to understand inodes whose uids map to other namespaces. userns: Fail exec for suid and sgid binaries with ids outside our user namespace. userns: Convert stat to return values mapped from kuids and kgids userns: Convert user specfied uids and gids in chown into kuids and kgid userns: Use uid_eq gid_eq helpers when comparing kuids and kgids in the vfs ...

userns: Convert ptrace, kill, set_priority permission checks to work with kuids and kgids

2012-05-03T10:28:51Z

Update the permission checks to use the new uid_eq and gid_eq helpers and remove the now unnecessary user_ns equality comparison. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman