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Message-Id: <20110823144430.75315ce8.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:44:30 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
Stephen Wilson <wilsons@...rt.ca>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, security@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: fix races of /proc/PID/{fd/,fdinfo/,fdinfo/*}
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:20:09 +0400
Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com> wrote:
> fd* files are restricted to the task's owner, but keeping opened procfs
> file descriptors makes it possible to violate the permission model.
> Keeping fdinfo/* may disclosure current position and flags, keeping
> fdinfo/ and fd/ may disclosure number of opened files.
>
> Used existing (un)lock_trace functions to deal with the race.
what race.
When fixing a bug, please completely, utterly and exhaustively describe
the bug!
> CC: Stable Tree <stable@...nel.org>
And when cc'ing -stable, please make it very clear why you consider the
bug sufficiently serious to warant mackporting the fix into earlier
kernels.
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