kernel/linux.git/fs/proc/base.c, branch v5.10.268

proc: protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock (part 1)

2026-07-24T13:49:21+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6650527444dadc63d84aa939d14ecba4fadb2f69 ] Fix the easy cases where procfs currently calls ptrace_may_access() without exec_update_lock protection, where the fix is to simply add the extra lock or use mm_access(): - do_task_stat(): grab exec_update_lock - proc_pid_wchan(): grab exec_update_lock - proc_map_files_lookup(): use mm_access() instead of get_task_mm() - proc_map_files_readdir(): use mm_access() instead of get_task_mm() - proc_ns_get_link(): grab exec_update_lock - proc_ns_readlink(): grab exec_update_lock Fixes: f83ce3e6b02d ("proc: avoid information leaks to non-privileged processes") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260518-procfs-lockfix-part1-v1-1-5c3d20e0ac33@google.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) [ converted NULL return from mm_access() to ERR_PTR(-ESRCH) at call sites since 5.15's mm_access() returns NULL when the task has no mm ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock (FD links)

2026-07-24T13:49:21+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6255da28d4bb5349fe18e84cb043ccd394eba75d ] proc_pid_get_link() and proc_pid_readlink() currently look up the task from the pid once, then do the ptrace access check on that task, then look up the task from the pid a second time to do the actual access. That's racy in several ways. To fix it, pass the task to the ->proc_get_link() handler, and instead of proc_fd_access_allowed(), introduce a new helper call_proc_get_link() that looks up and locks the task, does the access check, and calls ->proc_get_link(). Fixes: 778c1144771f ("[PATCH] proc: Use sane permission checks on the /proc//fd/ symlinks") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260518-procfs-lockfix-part1-v1-2-5c3d20e0ac33@google.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: rename proc_setattr to proc_nochmod_setattr

2026-07-24T13:49:21+00:00

[ Upstream commit 690005b0b1e6b567c88b7790e6d90d4d6c9e09cc ] What is currently proc_setattr is a special version added after the more general procfs ->seattr in commit 6d76fa58b050 ("Don't allow chmod() on the /proc// files"). Give it a name that reflects that to free the proc_setattr name and better describe what is doing. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260325063711.3298685-5-hch@lst.de Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Stable-dep-of: 6255da28d4bb ("proc: protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock (FD links)") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/procfs: fix the comment above proc_pid_wchan()

2025-04-10T12:30:59+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6287fbad1cd91f0c25cdc3a580499060828a8f30 ] proc_pid_wchan() used to report kernel addresses to user space but that is no longer the case today. Bring the comment above proc_pid_wchan() in sync with the implementation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250319210222.1518771-1-bvanassche@acm.org Fixes: b2f73922d119 ("fs/proc, core/debug: Don't expose absolute kernel addresses via wchan") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

proc: add config & param to block forcing mem writes

2024-10-17T13:08:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit 41e8149c8892ed1962bd15350b3c3e6e90cba7f4 ] This adds a Kconfig option and boot param to allow removing the FOLL_FORCE flag from /proc/pid/mem write calls because it can be abused. The traditional forcing behavior is kept as default because it can break GDB and some other use cases. Previously we tried a more sophisticated approach allowing distributions to fine-tune /proc/pid/mem behavior, however that got NAK-ed by Linus [1], who prefers this simpler approach with semantics also easier to understand for users. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiGWLChxYmUA5HrT5aopZrB7_2VTa0NLZcxORgkUe5tEQ@mail.gmail.com/ [1] Cc: Doug Anderson Cc: Jeff Xu Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Christian Brauner Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240802080225.89408-1-adrian.ratiu@collabora.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

proc: fix a dentry lock race between release_task and lookup

2023-09-23T09:01:10+00:00

commit d919a1e79bac890421537cf02ae773007bf55e6b upstream. Commit 7bc3e6e55acf06 ("proc: Use a list of inodes to flush from proc") moved proc_flush_task() behind __exit_signal(). Then, process systemd can take long period high cpu usage during releasing task in following concurrent processes: systemd ps kernel_waitid stat(/proc/tgid) do_wait filename_lookup wait_consider_task lookup_fast release_task __exit_signal __unhash_process detach_pid __change_pid // remove task->pid_links d_revalidate -> pid_revalidate // 0 d_invalidate(/proc/tgid) shrink_dcache_parent(/proc/tgid) d_walk(/proc/tgid) spin_lock_nested(/proc/tgid/fd) // iterating opened fd proc_flush_pid | d_invalidate (/proc/tgid/fd) | shrink_dcache_parent(/proc/tgid/fd) | shrink_dentry_list(subdirs) ↓ shrink_lock_dentry(/proc/tgid/fd) --> race on dentry lock Function d_invalidate() will remove dentry from hash firstly, but why does proc_flush_pid() process dentry '/proc/tgid/fd' before dentry '/proc/tgid'? That's because proc_pid_make_inode() adds proc inode in reverse order by invoking hlist_add_head_rcu(). But proc should not add any inodes under '/proc/tgid' except '/proc/tgid/task/pid', fix it by adding inode into 'pid->inodes' only if the inode is /proc/tgid or /proc/tgid/task/pid. Performance regression: Create 200 tasks, each task open one file for 50,000 times. Kill all tasks when opened files exceed 10,000,000 (cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr). Before fix: $ time killall -wq aa real 4m40.946s # During this period, we can see 'ps' and 'systemd' taking high cpu usage. After fix: $ time killall -wq aa real 1m20.732s # During this period, we can see 'systemd' taking high cpu usage. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220713130029.4133533-1-chengzhihao1@huawei.com Fixes: 7bc3e6e55acf06 ("proc: Use a list of inodes to flush from proc") Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216054 Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi Suggested-by: Brian Foster Reviewed-by: Brian Foster Cc: Al Viro Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Kalesh Singh Cc: Yu Kuai Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [ Context adjustments ] Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

procfs: block chmod on /proc/thread-self/comm

2023-09-19T10:20:22+00:00

commit ccf61486fe1e1a48e18c638d1813cda77b3c0737 upstream. Due to an oversight in commit 1b3044e39a89 ("procfs: fix pthread cross-thread naming if !PR_DUMPABLE") in switching from REG to NOD, chmod operations on /proc/thread-self/comm were no longer blocked as they are on almost all other procfs files. A very similar situation with /proc/self/environ was used to as a root exploit a long time ago, but procfs has SB_I_NOEXEC so this is simply a correctness issue. Ref: https://lwn.net/Articles/191954/ Ref: 6d76fa58b050 ("Don't allow chmod() on the /proc// files") Fixes: 1b3044e39a89 ("procfs: fix pthread cross-thread naming if !PR_DUMPABLE") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.7+ Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai Message-Id: <20230713141001.27046-1-cyphar@cyphar.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: Avoid mixing integer types in mem_rw()

2021-07-28T12:35:42+00:00

[ Upstream commit d238692b4b9f2c36e35af4c6e6f6da36184aeb3e ] Use size_t when capping the count argument received by mem_rw(). Since count is size_t, using min_t(int, ...) can lead to a negative value that will later be passed to access_remote_vm(), which can cause unexpected behavior. Since we are capping the value to at maximum PAGE_SIZE, the conversion from size_t to int when passing it to access_remote_vm() as "len" shouldn't be a problem. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210512125215.3348316-1-marcelo.cerri@canonical.com Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Signed-off-by: Marcelo Henrique Cerri Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Souza Cascardo Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

proc: only require mm_struct for writing

2021-06-16T10:01:47+00:00

commit 94f0b2d4a1d0c52035aef425da5e022bd2cb1c71 upstream. Commit 591a22c14d3f ("proc: Track /proc/$pid/attr/ opener mm_struct") we started using __mem_open() to track the mm_struct at open-time, so that we could then check it for writes. But that also ended up making the permission checks at open time much stricter - and not just for writes, but for reads too. And that in turn caused a regression for at least Fedora 29, where NIC interfaces fail to start when using NetworkManager. Since only the write side wanted the mm_struct test, ignore any failures by __mem_open() at open time, leaving reads unaffected. The write() time verification of the mm_struct pointer will then catch the failure case because a NULL pointer will not match a valid 'current->mm'. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/YMjTlp2FSJYvoyFa@unreal/ Fixes: 591a22c14d3f ("proc: Track /proc/$pid/attr/ opener mm_struct") Reported-and-tested-by: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Andrea Righi Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: Track /proc/$pid/attr/ opener mm_struct

2021-06-16T10:01:34+00:00

commit 591a22c14d3f45cc38bd1931c593c221df2f1881 upstream. Commit bfb819ea20ce ("proc: Check /proc/$pid/attr/ writes against file opener") tried to make sure that there could not be a confusion between the opener of a /proc/$pid/attr/ file and the writer. It used struct cred to make sure the privileges didn't change. However, there were existing cases where a more privileged thread was passing the opened fd to a differently privileged thread (during container setup). Instead, use mm_struct to track whether the opener and writer are still the same process. (This is what several other proc files already do, though for different reasons.) Reported-by: Christian Brauner Reported-by: Andrea Righi Tested-by: Andrea Righi Fixes: bfb819ea20ce ("proc: Check /proc/$pid/attr/ writes against file opener") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman