kernel/linux.git/fs/proc/fd.c, branch v6.1.178

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

2026-07-24T13:55:15+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

2026-07-24T13:55:15+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

proc: Move fdinfo PTRACE_MODE_READ check into the inode .permission operation

2026-07-24T13:55:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0a960ba49869ebe8ff859d000351504dd6b93b68 ] The following commits loosened the permissions of /proc//fdinfo/ directory, as well as the files within it, from 0500 to 0555 while also introducing a PTRACE_MODE_READ check between the current task and 's task: - commit 7bc3fa0172a4 ("procfs: allow reading fdinfo with PTRACE_MODE_READ") - commit 1927e498aee1 ("procfs: prevent unprivileged processes accessing fdinfo dir") Before those changes, inode based system calls like inotify_add_watch(2) would fail when the current task didn't have sufficient read permissions: [...] lstat("/proc/1/task/1/fdinfo", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0500, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 inotify_add_watch(64, "/proc/1/task/1/fdinfo", IN_MODIFY|IN_ATTRIB|IN_MOVED_FROM|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE| IN_ONLYDIR|IN_DONT_FOLLOW|IN_EXCL_UNLINK) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) [...] This matches the documented behavior in the inotify_add_watch(2) man page: ERRORS EACCES Read access to the given file is not permitted. After those changes, inotify_add_watch(2) started succeeding despite the current task not having PTRACE_MODE_READ privileges on the target task: [...] lstat("/proc/1/task/1/fdinfo", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 inotify_add_watch(64, "/proc/1/task/1/fdinfo", IN_MODIFY|IN_ATTRIB|IN_MOVED_FROM|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE| IN_ONLYDIR|IN_DONT_FOLLOW|IN_EXCL_UNLINK) = 1757 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/1/task/1/fdinfo", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) [...] This change in behavior broke .NET prior to v7. See the github link below for the v7 commit that inadvertently/quietly (?) fixed .NET after the kernel changes mentioned above. Return to the old behavior by moving the PTRACE_MODE_READ check out of the file .open operation and into the inode .permission operation: [...] lstat("/proc/1/task/1/fdinfo", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 inotify_add_watch(64, "/proc/1/task/1/fdinfo", IN_MODIFY|IN_ATTRIB|IN_MOVED_FROM|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE| IN_ONLYDIR|IN_DONT_FOLLOW|IN_EXCL_UNLINK) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) [...] Reported-by: Kevin Parsons (Microsoft) Link: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/commit/89e5469ac591b82d38510fe7de98346cce74ad4f Link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75379065/start-self-contained-net6-build-exe-as-service-on-raspbian-system-unauthorizeda Fixes: 7bc3fa0172a4 ("procfs: allow reading fdinfo with PTRACE_MODE_READ") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Christian König Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Kalesh Singh Cc: Hardik Garg Cc: Allen Pais Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks (Microsoft) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240501005646.745089-1-code@tyhicks.com 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

procfs: prevent unprivileged processes accessing fdinfo dir

2022-05-10T00:34:28+00:00

The file permissions on the fdinfo dir from were changed from S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR to S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO, and a PTRACE_MODE_READ check was added for opening the fdinfo files [1]. However, the ptrace permission check was not added to the directory, allowing anyone to get the open FD numbers by reading the fdinfo directory. Add the missing ptrace permission check for opening the fdinfo directory. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210308170651.919148-1-kaleshsingh@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713162008.1056986-1-kaleshsingh@google.com Fixes: 7bc3fa0172a4 ("procfs: allow reading fdinfo with PTRACE_MODE_READ") Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Hridya Valsaraju Cc: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

procfs/dmabuf: add inode number to /proc/*/fdinfo

2021-07-01T18:06:04+00:00

And 'ino' field to /proc//fdinfo/ and /proc//task//fdinfo/. The inode numbers can be used to uniquely identify DMA buffers in user space and avoids a dependency on /proc//fd/* when accounting per-process DMA buffer sizes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210308170651.919148-2-kaleshsingh@google.com Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Christian König Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Hridya Valsaraju Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Kalesh Singh Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Alexey Gladkov Cc: Szabolcs Nagy Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Bernd Edlinger Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: Helge Deller Cc: James Morris Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

procfs: allow reading fdinfo with PTRACE_MODE_READ

2021-07-01T18:06:04+00:00

Android captures per-process system memory state when certain low memory events (e.g a foreground app kill) occur, to identify potential memory hoggers. In order to measure how much memory a process actually consumes, it is necessary to include the DMA buffer sizes for that process in the memory accounting. Since the handle to DMA buffers are raw FDs, it is important to be able to identify which processes have FD references to a DMA buffer. Currently, DMA buffer FDs can be accounted using /proc//fd/* and /proc//fdinfo -- both are only readable by the process owner, as follows: 1. Do a readlink on each FD. 2. If the target path begins with "/dmabuf", then the FD is a dmabuf FD. 3. stat the file to get the dmabuf inode number. 4. Read/ proc//fdinfo/, to get the DMA buffer size. Accessing other processes' fdinfo requires root privileges. This limits the use of the interface to debugging environments and is not suitable for production builds. Granting root privileges even to a system process increases the attack surface and is highly undesirable. Since fdinfo doesn't permit reading process memory and manipulating process state, allow accessing fdinfo under PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCRED. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210308170651.919148-1-kaleshsingh@google.com Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh Suggested-by: Jann Horn Acked-by: Christian König Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Alexey Gladkov Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: Bernd Edlinger Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Hridya Valsaraju Cc: James Morris Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Szabolcs Nagy Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: make helpers idmap mount aware

2021-01-24T13:27:20+00:00

Extend some inode methods with an additional user namespace argument. A filesystem that is aware of idmapped mounts will receive the user namespace the mount has been marked with. This can be used for additional permission checking and also to enable filesystems to translate between uids and gids if they need to. We have implemented all relevant helpers in earlier patches. As requested we simply extend the exisiting inode method instead of introducing new ones. This is a little more code churn but it's mostly mechanical and doesnt't leave us with additional inode methods. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-25-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: David Howells Cc: Al Viro Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

namei: make permission helpers idmapped mount aware

2021-01-24T13:27:16+00:00

The two helpers inode_permission() and generic_permission() are used by the vfs to perform basic permission checking by verifying that the caller is privileged over an inode. In order to handle idmapped mounts we extend the two helpers with an additional user namespace argument. On idmapped mounts the two helpers will make sure to map the inode according to the mount's user namespace and then peform identical permission checks to inode_permission() and generic_permission(). If the initial user namespace is passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts will see identical behavior as before. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-6-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: David Howells Cc: Al Viro Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: James Morris Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

proc/fd: In fdinfo seq_show don't use get_files_struct

2020-12-10T18:42:58+00:00

When discussing[1] exec and posix file locks it was realized that none of the callers of get_files_struct fundamentally needed to call get_files_struct, and that by switching them to helper functions instead it will both simplify their code and remove unnecessary increments of files_struct.count. Those unnecessary increments can result in exec unnecessarily unsharing files_struct which breaking posix locks, and it can result in fget_light having to fallback to fget reducing system performance. Instead hold task_lock for the duration that task->files needs to be stable in seq_show. The task_lock was already taken in get_files_struct, and so skipping get_files_struct performs less work overall, and avoids the problems with the files_struct reference count. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180915160423.GA31461@redhat.com Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Christian Brauner v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200817220425.9389-12-ebiederm@xmission.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201120231441.29911-17-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

proc/fd: In proc_readfd_common use task_lookup_next_fd_rcu

2020-12-10T18:42:58+00:00

When discussing[1] exec and posix file locks it was realized that none of the callers of get_files_struct fundamentally needed to call get_files_struct, and that by switching them to helper functions instead it will both simplify their code and remove unnecessary increments of files_struct.count. Those unnecessary increments can result in exec unnecessarily unsharing files_struct which breaking posix locks, and it can result in fget_light having to fallback to fget reducing system performance. Using task_lookup_next_fd_rcu simplifies proc_readfd_common, by moving the checking for the maximum file descritor into the generic code, and by remvoing the need for capturing and releasing a reference on files_struct. As task_lookup_fd_rcu may update the fd ctx->pos has been changed to be the fd +2 after task_lookup_fd_rcu returns. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180915160423.GA31461@redhat.com Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov Tested-by: Andy Lavr v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200817220425.9389-10-ebiederm@xmission.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201120231441.29911-15-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman