fix setuid sometimes doesn't

Joe Malicki reports that setuid sometimes doesn't: very rarely,
a setuid root program does not get root euid; and, by the way,
they have a health check running lsof every few minutes.

Right, check_unsafe_exec() notes whether the files_struct is being
shared by more threads than will get killed by the exec, and if so
sets LSM_UNSAFE_SHARE to make bprm_set_creds() careful about euid.
But /proc/<pid>/fd and /proc/<pid>/fdinfo lookups make transient
use of get_files_struct(), which also raises that sharing count.

There's a rather simple fix for this: exec's check on files->count
has been redundant ever since 2.6.1 made it unshare_files() (except
while compat_do_execve() omitted to do so) - just remove that check.

[Note to -stable: this patch will not apply before 2.6.29: earlier
releases should just remove the files->count line from unsafe_exec().]

Reported-by: Joe Malicki <jmalicki@metacarta.com>
Narrowed-down-by: Michael Itz <mitz@metacarta.com>
Tested-by: Joe Malicki <jmalicki@metacarta.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index b9f1c14..c5128fb 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1056,28 +1056,24 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(install_exec_creds);
  * - the caller must hold current->cred_exec_mutex to protect against
  *   PTRACE_ATTACH
  */
-void check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct files_struct *files)
+void check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 {
 	struct task_struct *p = current, *t;
 	unsigned long flags;
-	unsigned n_fs, n_files, n_sighand;
+	unsigned n_fs, n_sighand;
 
 	bprm->unsafe = tracehook_unsafe_exec(p);
 
 	n_fs = 1;
-	n_files = 1;
 	n_sighand = 1;
 	lock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
 	for (t = next_thread(p); t != p; t = next_thread(t)) {
 		if (t->fs == p->fs)
 			n_fs++;
-		if (t->files == files)
-			n_files++;
 		n_sighand++;
 	}
 
 	if (atomic_read(&p->fs->count) > n_fs ||
-	    atomic_read(&p->files->count) > n_files ||
 	    atomic_read(&p->sighand->count) > n_sighand)
 		bprm->unsafe |= LSM_UNSAFE_SHARE;
 
@@ -1300,7 +1296,7 @@ int do_execve(char * filename,
 	bprm->cred = prepare_exec_creds();
 	if (!bprm->cred)
 		goto out_unlock;
-	check_unsafe_exec(bprm, displaced);
+	check_unsafe_exec(bprm);
 
 	file = open_exec(filename);
 	retval = PTR_ERR(file);