ptrace: Don't allow accessing an undumpable mm

It is the reasonable expectation that if an executable file is not
readable there will be no way for a user without special privileges to
read the file.  This is enforced in ptrace_attach but if ptrace
is already attached before exec there is no enforcement for read-only
executables.

As the only way to read such an mm is through access_process_vm
spin a variant called ptrace_access_vm that will fail if the
target process is not being ptraced by the current process, or
the current process did not have sufficient privileges when ptracing
began to read the target processes mm.

In the ptrace implementations replace access_process_vm by
ptrace_access_vm.  There remain several ptrace sites that still use
access_process_vm as they are reading the target executables
instructions (for kernel consumption) or register stacks.  As such it
does not appear necessary to add a permission check to those calls.

This bug has always existed in Linux.

Fixes: v1.0
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

6 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c
index 940dfb4..04abdec 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
 	/* When I and D space are separate, these will need to be fixed.  */
 	case PTRACE_PEEKTEXT: /* read word at location addr. */
 	case PTRACE_PEEKDATA:
-		copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, &tmp, sizeof(tmp),
+		copied = ptrace_access_vm(child, addr, &tmp, sizeof(tmp),
 				FOLL_FORCE);
 		ret = -EIO;
 		if (copied != sizeof(tmp))
diff --git a/arch/blackfin/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/blackfin/kernel/ptrace.c
index 8d79286..360d996 100644
--- a/arch/blackfin/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/blackfin/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
 			switch (bfin_mem_access_type(addr, to_copy)) {
 			case BFIN_MEM_ACCESS_CORE:
 			case BFIN_MEM_ACCESS_CORE_ONLY:
-				copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, &tmp,
+				copied = ptrace_access_vm(child, addr, &tmp,
 							   to_copy, FOLL_FORCE);
 				if (copied)
 					break;
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
 			switch (bfin_mem_access_type(addr, to_copy)) {
 			case BFIN_MEM_ACCESS_CORE:
 			case BFIN_MEM_ACCESS_CORE_ONLY:
-				copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, &data,
+				copied = ptrace_access_vm(child, addr, &data,
 				                           to_copy,
 							   FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE);
 				break;
diff --git a/arch/cris/arch-v32/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/cris/arch-v32/kernel/ptrace.c
index f0df654..fe1f9cf7b 100644
--- a/arch/cris/arch-v32/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/cris/arch-v32/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
 				/* The trampoline page is globally mapped, no page table to traverse.*/
 				tmp = *(unsigned long*)addr;
 			} else {
-				copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, &tmp, sizeof(tmp), FOLL_FORCE);
+				copied = ptrace_access_vm(child, addr, &tmp, sizeof(tmp), FOLL_FORCE);
 
 				if (copied != sizeof(tmp))
 					break;
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c
index 31aa8c0..36f660d 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@ arch_ptrace (struct task_struct *child, long request,
 	case PTRACE_PEEKTEXT:
 	case PTRACE_PEEKDATA:
 		/* read word at location addr */
-		if (access_process_vm(child, addr, &data, sizeof(data),
+		if (ptrace_access_vm(child, addr, &data, sizeof(data),
 				FOLL_FORCE)
 		    != sizeof(data))
 			return -EIO;
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace32.c b/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace32.c
index 7e71a4e..5fcbdcd 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace32.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace32.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request,
 		if (get_user(addrOthers, (u32 __user * __user *) (unsigned long) addr) != 0)
 			break;
 
-		copied = access_process_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &tmp,
+		copied = ptrace_access_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &tmp,
 				sizeof(tmp), FOLL_FORCE);
 		if (copied != sizeof(tmp))
 			break;
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request,
 		if (get_user(addrOthers, (u32 __user * __user *) (unsigned long) addr) != 0)
 			break;
 		ret = 0;
-		if (access_process_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &data,
+		if (ptrace_access_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &data,
 					sizeof(data),
 					FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE) == sizeof(data))
 			break;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c
index 010b7b3..1e887f3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request,
 		if (get_user(addrOthers, (u32 __user * __user *)addr) != 0)
 			break;
 
-		copied = access_process_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &tmp,
+		copied = ptrace_access_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &tmp,
 				sizeof(tmp), FOLL_FORCE);
 		if (copied != sizeof(tmp))
 			break;
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request,
 		if (get_user(addrOthers, (u32 __user * __user *)addr) != 0)
 			break;
 		ret = 0;
-		if (access_process_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &tmp,
+		if (ptrace_access_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &tmp,
 					sizeof(tmp),
 					FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE) == sizeof(tmp))
 			break;