kernel/linux.git/fs/exec.c, branch v6.12.80

exec: Fix incorrect type for ret

2025-10-29T13:08:51+00:00

[ Upstream commit 5e088248375d171b80c643051e77ade6b97bc386 ] In the setup_arg_pages(), ret is declared as an unsigned long. The ret might take a negative value. Therefore, its type should be changed to int. Signed-off-by: Xichao Zhao Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250825073609.219855-1-zhao.xichao@vivo.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

exec: fix the racy usage of fs_struct->in_exec

2025-04-10T12:39:40+00:00

commit af7bb0d2ca459f15cb5ca604dab5d9af103643f0 upstream. check_unsafe_exec() sets fs->in_exec under cred_guard_mutex, then execve() paths clear fs->in_exec lockless. This is fine if exec succeeds, but if it fails we have the following race: T1 sets fs->in_exec = 1, fails, drops cred_guard_mutex T2 sets fs->in_exec = 1 T1 clears fs->in_exec T2 continues with fs->in_exec == 0 Change fs/exec.c to clear fs->in_exec with cred_guard_mutex held. Reported-by: syzbot+1c486d0b62032c82a968@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67dc67f0.050a0220.25ae54.001f.GAE@google.com/ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250324160003.GA8878@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exec: fix up /proc/pid/comm in the execveat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) case

2025-02-17T09:04:43+00:00

[ Upstream commit 543841d1806029889c2f69f040e88b247aba8e22 ] Zbigniew mentioned at Linux Plumber's that systemd is interested in switching to execveat() for service execution, but can't, because the contents of /proc/pid/comm are the file descriptor which was used, instead of the path to the binary[1]. This makes the output of tools like top and ps useless, especially in a world where most fds are opened CLOEXEC so the number is truly meaningless. When the filename passed in is empty (e.g. with AT_EMPTY_PATH), use the dentry's filename for "comm" instead of using the useless numeral from the synthetic fdpath construction. This way the actual exec machinery is unchanged, but cosmetically the comm looks reasonable to admins investigating things. Instead of adding TASK_COMM_LEN more bytes to bprm, use one of the unused flag bits to indicate that we need to set "comm" from the dentry. Suggested-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Suggested-by: Tycho Andersen Suggested-by: Al Viro Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Link: https://github.com/uapi-group/kernel-features#set-comm-field-before-exec [1] Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai Tested-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Revert "fs: don't block i_writecount during exec"

2024-12-05T13:02:50+00:00

commit 3b832035387ff508fdcf0fba66701afc78f79e3d upstream. This reverts commit 2a010c41285345da60cece35575b4e0af7e7bf44. Rui Ueyama writes: > I'm the creator and the maintainer of the mold linker > (https://github.com/rui314/mold). Recently, we discovered that mold > started causing process crashes in certain situations due to a change > in the Linux kernel. Here are the details: > > - In general, overwriting an existing file is much faster than > creating an empty file and writing to it on Linux, so mold attempts to > reuse an existing executable file if it exists. > > - If a program is running, opening the executable file for writing > previously failed with ETXTBSY. If that happens, mold falls back to > creating a new file. > > - However, the Linux kernel recently changed the behavior so that > writing to an executable file is now always permitted > (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2a010c412853). > > That caused mold to write to an executable file even if there's a > process running that file. Since changes to mmap'ed files are > immediately visible to other processes, any processes running that > file would almost certainly crash in a very mysterious way. > Identifying the cause of these random crashes took us a few days. > > Rejecting writes to an executable file that is currently running is a > well-known behavior, and Linux had operated that way for a very long > time. So, I don’t believe relying on this behavior was our mistake; > rather, I see this as a regression in the Linux kernel. Quoting myself from commit 2a010c412853 ("fs: don't block i_writecount during exec") > Yes, someone in userspace could potentially be relying on this. It's not > completely out of the realm of possibility but let's find out if that's > actually the case and not guess. It seems we found out that someone is relying on this obscure behavior. So revert the change. Link: https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/1361 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4a2bc207-76be-4715-8e12-7fc45a76a125@leemhuis.info Cc: Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2024-09-21T14:29:05+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Along with the usual shower of singleton patches, notable patch series in this pull request are: - "Align kvrealloc() with krealloc()" from Danilo Krummrich. Adds consistency to the APIs and behaviour of these two core allocation functions. This also simplifies/enables Rustification. - "Some cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang. No functional changes - mode code reuse, better function naming, logic simplifications. - "mm: some small page fault cleanups" from Josef Bacik. No functional changes - code cleanups only. - "Various memory tiering fixes" from Zi Yan. A small fix and a little cleanup. - "mm/swap: remove boilerplate" from Yu Zhao. Code cleanups and simplifications and .text shrinkage. - "Kernel stack usage histogram" from Pasha Tatashin and Shakeel Butt. This is a feature, it adds new feilds to /proc/vmstat such as $ grep kstack /proc/vmstat kstack_1k 3 kstack_2k 188 kstack_4k 11391 kstack_8k 243 kstack_16k 0 which tells us that 11391 processes used 4k of stack while none at all used 16k. Useful for some system tuning things, but partivularly useful for "the dynamic kernel stack project". - "kmemleak: support for percpu memory leak detect" from Pavel Tikhomirov. Teaches kmemleak to detect leaksage of percpu memory. - "mm: memcg: page counters optimizations" from Roman Gushchin. "3 independent small optimizations of page counters". - "mm: split PTE/PMD PT table Kconfig cleanups+clarifications" from David Hildenbrand. Improves PTE/PMD splitlock detection, makes powerpc/8xx work correctly by design rather than by accident. - "mm: remove arch_make_page_accessible()" from David Hildenbrand. Some folio conversions which make arch_make_page_accessible() unneeded. - "mm, memcg: cg2 memory{.swap,}.peak write handlers" fro David Finkel. Cleans up and fixes our handling of the resetting of the cgroup/process peak-memory-use detector. - "Make core VMA operations internal and testable" from Lorenzo Stoakes. Rationalizaion and encapsulation of the VMA manipulation APIs. With a view to better enable testing of the VMA functions, even from a userspace-only harness. - "mm: zswap: fixes for global shrinker" from Takero Funaki. Fix issues in the zswap global shrinker, resulting in improved performance. - "mm: print the promo watermark in zoneinfo" from Kaiyang Zhao. Fill in some missing info in /proc/zoneinfo. - "mm: replace follow_page() by folio_walk" from David Hildenbrand. Code cleanups and rationalizations (conversion to folio_walk()) resulting in the removal of follow_page(). - "improving dynamic zswap shrinker protection scheme" from Nhat Pham. Some tuning to improve zswap's dynamic shrinker. Significant reductions in swapin and improvements in performance are shown. - "mm: Fix several issues with unaccepted memory" from Kirill Shutemov. Improvements to the new unaccepted memory feature, - "mm/mprotect: Fix dax puds" from Peter Xu. Implements mprotect on DAX PUDs. This was missing, although nobody seems to have notied yet. - "Introduce a store type enum for the Maple tree" from Sidhartha Kumar. Cleanups and modest performance improvements for the maple tree library code. - "memcg: further decouple v1 code from v2" from Shakeel Butt. Move more cgroup v1 remnants away from the v2 memcg code. - "memcg: initiate deprecation of v1 features" from Shakeel Butt. Adds various warnings telling users that memcg v1 features are deprecated. - "mm: swap: mTHP swap allocator base on swap cluster order" from Chris Li. Greatly improves the success rate of the mTHP swap allocation. - "mm: introduce numa_memblks" from Mike Rapoport. Moves various disparate per-arch implementations of numa_memblk code into generic code. - "mm: batch free swaps for zap_pte_range()" from Barry Song. Greatly improves the performance of munmap() of swap-filled ptes. - "support large folio swap-out and swap-in for shmem" from Baolin Wang. With this series we no longer split shmem large folios into simgle-page folios when swapping out shmem. - "mm/hugetlb: alloc/free gigantic folios" from Yu Zhao. Nice performance improvements and code reductions for gigantic folios. - "support shmem mTHP collapse" from Baolin Wang. Adds support for khugepaged's collapsing of shmem mTHP folios. - "mm: Optimize mseal checks" from Pedro Falcato. Fixes an mprotect() performance regression due to the addition of mseal(). - "Increase the number of bits available in page_type" from Matthew Wilcox. Increases the number of bits available in page_type! - "Simplify the page flags a little" from Matthew Wilcox. Many legacy page flags are now folio flags, so the page-based flags and their accessors/mutators can be removed. - "mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap" from Usama Arif. An optimization which permits us to avoid writing/reading zero-filled zswap pages to backing store. - "Avoid MAP_FIXED gap exposure" from Liam Howlett. Fixes a race window which occurs when a MAP_FIXED operqtion is occurring during an unrelated vma tree walk. - "mm: remove vma_merge()" from Lorenzo Stoakes. Major rotorooting of the vma_merge() functionality, making ot cleaner, more testable and better tested. - "misc fixups for DAMON {self,kunit} tests" from SeongJae Park. Minor fixups of DAMON selftests and kunit tests. - "mm: memory_hotplug: improve do_migrate_range()" from Kefeng Wang. Code cleanups and folio conversions. - "Shmem mTHP controls and stats improvements" from Ryan Roberts. Cleanups for shmem controls and stats. - "mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size" from Barry Song. Expose additional anon THP stats to userspace for improved tuning. - "mm: finish isolate/putback_lru_page()" from Kefeng Wang: more folio conversions and removal of now-unused page-based APIs. - "replace per-quota region priorities histogram buffer with per-context one" from SeongJae Park. DAMON histogram rationalization. - "Docs/damon: update GitHub repo URLs and maintainer-profile" from SeongJae Park. DAMON documentation updates. - "mm/vdpa: correct misuse of non-direct-reclaim __GFP_NOFAIL and improve related doc and warn" from Jason Wang: fixes usage of page allocator __GFP_NOFAIL and GFP_ATOMIC flags. - "mm: split underused THPs" from Yu Zhao. Improve THP=always policy. This was overprovisioning THPs in sparsely accessed memory areas. - "zram: introduce custom comp backends API" frm Sergey Senozhatsky. Add support for zram run-time compression algorithm tuning. - "mm: Care about shadow stack guard gap when getting an unmapped area" from Mark Brown. Fix up the various arch_get_unmapped_area() implementations to better respect guard areas. - "Improve mem_cgroup_iter()" from Kinsey Ho. Improve the reliability of mem_cgroup_iter() and various code cleanups. - "mm: Support huge pfnmaps" from Peter Xu. Extends the usage of huge pfnmap support. - "resource: Fix region_intersects() vs add_memory_driver_managed()" from Huang Ying. Fix a bug in region_intersects() for systems with CXL memory. - "mm: hwpoison: two more poison recovery" from Kefeng Wang. Teaches a couple more code paths to correctly recover from the encountering of poisoned memry. - "mm: enable large folios swap-in support" from Barry Song. Support the swapin of mTHP memory into appropriately-sized folios, rather than into single-page folios" * tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (416 commits) zram: free secondary algorithms names uprobes: turn xol_area->pages[2] into xol_area->page uprobes: introduce the global struct vm_special_mapping xol_mapping Revert "uprobes: use vm_special_mapping close() functionality" mm: support large folios swap-in for sync io devices mm: add nr argument in mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap() helper to support large folios mm: fix swap_read_folio_zeromap() for large folios with partial zeromap mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use pxdp_get() for accessing page table entries set_memory: add __must_check to generic stubs mm/vma: return the exact errno in vms_gather_munmap_vmas() memcg: cleanup with !CONFIG_MEMCG_V1 mm/show_mem.c: report alloc tags in human readable units mm: support poison recovery from copy_present_page() mm: support poison recovery from do_cow_fault() resource, kunit: add test case for region_intersects() resource: make alloc_free_mem_region() works for iomem_resource mm: z3fold: deprecate CONFIG_Z3FOLD vfio/pci: implement huge_fault support mm/arm64: support large pfn mappings mm/x86: support large pfn mappings ...

Merge tag 'parisc-for-6.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux

2024-09-19T05:43:13+00:00

Pull parisc architecture updates from Helge Deller: - On parisc we now use the generic clockevent framework for timekeeping - Although there is no 64-bit glibc/userspace for parisc yet, for testing purposes one can run statically linked 64-bit binaries. This patchset contains two patches which fix 64-bit userspace which has been broken since kernel 4.19 - Fix the userspace stack position and size when the ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE personality is enabled - On other architectures mmap(MAP_GROWSDOWN | MAP_STACK) creates a downward-growing stack. On parisc mmap(MAP_STACK) is now sufficient to create an upward-growing stack * tag 'parisc-for-6.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux: parisc: Allow mmap(MAP_STACK) memory to automatically expand upwards parisc: Use PRIV_USER instead of hardcoded value parisc: Fix itlb miss handler for 64-bit programs parisc: Fix 64-bit userspace syscall path parisc: Fix stack start for ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE personality parisc: Convert to generic clockevents parisc: pdc_stable: Constify struct kobj_type

parisc: Fix stack start for ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE personality

2024-09-09T06:53:17+00:00

Fix the stack start address calculation for the parisc architecture in setup_arg_pages() when address randomization is disabled. When the ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE process personality is disabled there is no need to add additional space for the stack. Note that this patch touches code inside an #ifdef CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP hunk, which is why only the parisc architecture is affected since it's the only Linux architecture where the stack grows upwards. Without this patch you will find the stack in the middle of some mapped libaries and suddenly limited to 6MB instead of 8MB: root@parisc:~# setarch -R /bin/bash -c "cat /proc/self/maps" 00010000-00019000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1182034 /usr/bin/cat 00019000-0001a000 rwxp 00009000 08:05 1182034 /usr/bin/cat 0001a000-0003b000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] f90c4000-f9283000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1573004 /usr/lib/hppa-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 f9283000-f9285000 r--p 001bf000 08:05 1573004 /usr/lib/hppa-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 f9285000-f928a000 rwxp 001c1000 08:05 1573004 /usr/lib/hppa-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 f928a000-f9294000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 f9301000-f9323000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] f98b4000-f98e4000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1572869 /usr/lib/hppa-linux-gnu/ld.so.1 f98e4000-f98e5000 r--p 00030000 08:05 1572869 /usr/lib/hppa-linux-gnu/ld.so.1 f98e5000-f98e9000 rwxp 00031000 08:05 1572869 /usr/lib/hppa-linux-gnu/ld.so.1 f9ad8000-f9b00000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 f9b00000-f9b01000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] With the patch the stack gets correctly mapped at the end of the process memory map: root@panama:~# setarch -R /bin/bash -c "cat /proc/self/maps" 00010000-00019000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 16385582 /usr/bin/cat 00019000-0001a000 rwxp 00009000 08:13 16385582 /usr/bin/cat 0001a000-0003b000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] fef29000-ff0eb000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 16122400 /usr/lib/hppa-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 ff0eb000-ff0ed000 r--p 001c2000 08:13 16122400 /usr/lib/hppa-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 ff0ed000-ff0f2000 rwxp 001c4000 08:13 16122400 /usr/lib/hppa-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 ff0f2000-ff0fc000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 ff4b4000-ff4e4000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 16121913 /usr/lib/hppa-linux-gnu/ld.so.1 ff4e4000-ff4e6000 r--p 00030000 08:13 16121913 /usr/lib/hppa-linux-gnu/ld.so.1 ff4e6000-ff4ea000 rwxp 00032000 08:13 16121913 /usr/lib/hppa-linux-gnu/ld.so.1 ff6d7000-ff6ff000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 ff6ff000-ff700000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] ff700000-ff722000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] Reported-by: Camm Maguire Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Fixes: d045c77c1a69 ("parisc,metag: Fix crashes due to stack randomization on stack-grows-upwards architectures") Fixes: 17d9822d4b4c ("parisc: Consider stack randomization for mmap base only when necessary") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.2+

mm: move vma_shrink(), vma_expand() to internal header

2024-09-02T03:25:54+00:00

The vma_shrink() and vma_expand() functions are internal VMA manipulation functions which we ought to abstract for use outside of memory management code. To achieve this, we replace shift_arg_pages() in fs/exec.c with an invocation of a new relocate_vma_down() function implemented in mm/mmap.c, which enables us to also move move_page_tables() and vma_iter_prev_range() to internal.h. The purpose of doing this is to isolate key VMA manipulation functions in order that we can both abstract them and later render them easily testable. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3cfcd9ec433e032a85f636fdc0d7d98fafbd19c5.1722251717.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Brendan Higgins Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: David Gow Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Rae Moar Cc: SeongJae Park Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Pengfei Xu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

exec: don't WARN for racy path_noexec check

2024-08-30T06:22:33+00:00

Both i_mode and noexec checks wrapped in WARN_ON stem from an artifact of the previous implementation. They used to legitimately check for the condition, but that got moved up in two commits: 633fb6ac3980 ("exec: move S_ISREG() check earlier") 0fd338b2d2cd ("exec: move path_noexec() check earlier") Instead of being removed said checks are WARN_ON'ed instead, which has some debug value. However, the spurious path_noexec check is racy, resulting in unwarranted warnings should someone race with setting the noexec flag. One can note there is more to perm-checking whether execve is allowed and none of the conditions are guaranteed to still hold after they were tested for. Additionally this does not validate whether the code path did any perm checking to begin with -- it will pass if the inode happens to be regular. Keep the redundant path_noexec() check even though it's mindless nonsense checking for guarantee that isn't given so drop the WARN. Reword the commentary and do small tidy ups while here. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240805131721.765484-1-mjguzik@gmail.com [brauner: keep redundant path_noexec() check] Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

exec: Fix ToCToU between perm check and set-uid/gid usage

2024-08-13T20:24:29+00:00

When opening a file for exec via do_filp_open(), permission checking is done against the file's metadata at that moment, and on success, a file pointer is passed back. Much later in the execve() code path, the file metadata (specifically mode, uid, and gid) is used to determine if/how to set the uid and gid. However, those values may have changed since the permissions check, meaning the execution may gain unintended privileges. For example, if a file could change permissions from executable and not set-id: ---------x 1 root root 16048 Aug 7 13:16 target to set-id and non-executable: ---S------ 1 root root 16048 Aug 7 13:16 target it is possible to gain root privileges when execution should have been disallowed. While this race condition is rare in real-world scenarios, it has been observed (and proven exploitable) when package managers are updating the setuid bits of installed programs. Such files start with being world-executable but then are adjusted to be group-exec with a set-uid bit. For example, "chmod o-x,u+s target" makes "target" executable only by uid "root" and gid "cdrom", while also becoming setuid-root: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root cdrom 16048 Aug 7 13:16 target becomes: -rwsr-xr-- 1 root cdrom 16048 Aug 7 13:16 target But racing the chmod means users without group "cdrom" membership can get the permission to execute "target" just before the chmod, and when the chmod finishes, the exec reaches brpm_fill_uid(), and performs the setuid to root, violating the expressed authorization of "only cdrom group members can setuid to root". Re-check that we still have execute permissions in case the metadata has changed. It would be better to keep a copy from the perm-check time, but until we can do that refactoring, the least-bad option is to do a full inode_permission() call (under inode lock). It is understood that this is safe against dead-locks, but hardly optimal. Reported-by: Marco Vanotti Tested-by: Marco Vanotti Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Kees Cook