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Commit bf06189e authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook Committed by James Morris
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Yama: add PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY 



For a process to entirely disable Yama ptrace restrictions, it can use
the special PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY pid to indicate that any otherwise allowed
process may ptrace it. This is stronger than calling PR_SET_PTRACER with
pid "1" because it includes processes in external pid namespaces. This is
currently needed by the Chrome renderer, since its crash handler (Breakpad)
runs external to the renderer's pid namespace.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
parent 3ab1aff8

Documentation/security/Yama.txt

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@@ -41,7 +41,12 @@ other process (and its descendents) are allowed to call PTRACE_ATTACH 
against it. Only one such declared debugging process can exists for

each inferior at a time. For example, this is used by KDE, Chromium, and

Firefox's crash handlers, and by Wine for allowing only Wine processes

to ptrace each other.

to ptrace each other. If a process wishes to entirely disable these ptrace

restrictions, it can call prctl(PR_SET_PTRACER, PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY, ...)

so that any otherwise allowed process (even those in external pid namespaces)

may attach.



The sysctl settings are:



0 - classic ptrace permissions: a process can PTRACE_ATTACH to any other

    process running under the same uid, as long as it is dumpable (i.e.

include/linux/prctl.h

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@@ -119,5 +119,6 @@ 
 * A value of 0 mean "no process".

 */

#define PR_SET_PTRACER 0x59616d61

# define PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY ((unsigned long)-1)



#endif /* _LINUX_PRCTL_H */

security/yama/yama_lsm.c

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@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static void yama_ptracer_del(struct task_struct *tracer, 
	spin_lock_bh(&ptracer_relations_lock);

	list_for_each_entry_safe(relation, safe, &ptracer_relations, node)

		if (relation->tracee == tracee ||

		    relation->tracer == tracer) {

		    (tracer && relation->tracer == tracer)) {

			list_del(&relation->node);

			kfree(relation);

		}
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ static int yama_task_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3, 
		if (arg2 == 0) {

			yama_ptracer_del(NULL, myself);

			rc = 0;

		} else if (arg2 == PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY) {

			rc = yama_ptracer_add(NULL, myself);

		} else {

			struct task_struct *tracer;
@@ -208,6 +210,7 @@ static int ptracer_exception_found(struct task_struct *tracer, 
	int rc = 0;

	struct ptrace_relation *relation;

	struct task_struct *parent = NULL;

	bool found = false;



	spin_lock_bh(&ptracer_relations_lock);

	rcu_read_lock();
@@ -216,10 +219,11 @@ static int ptracer_exception_found(struct task_struct *tracer, 
	list_for_each_entry(relation, &ptracer_relations, node)

		if (relation->tracee == tracee) {

			parent = relation->tracer;

			found = true;

			break;

		}



	if (task_is_descendant(parent, tracer))

	if (found && (parent == NULL || task_is_descendant(parent, tracer)))

		rc = 1;

	rcu_read_unlock();

	spin_unlock_bh(&ptracer_relations_lock);