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Al Viro 974e3a7002 don't dump the threads that had been already exiting when zapped.
commit 77f6ab8b77 upstream.

Coredump logics needs to report not only the registers of the dumping
thread, but (since 2.5.43) those of other threads getting killed.

Doing that might require extra state saved on the stack in asm glue at
kernel entry; signal delivery logics does that (we need to be able to
save sigcontext there, at the very least) and so does seccomp.

That covers all callers of do_coredump().  Secondary threads get hit with
SIGKILL and caught as soon as they reach exit_mm(), which normally happens
in signal delivery, so those are also fine most of the time.  Unfortunately,
it is possible to end up with secondary zapped when it has already entered
exit(2) (or, worse yet, is oopsing).  In those cases we reach exit_mm()
when mm->core_state is already set, but the stack contents is not what
we would have in signal delivery.

At least on two architectures (alpha and m68k) it leads to infoleaks - we
end up with a chunk of kernel stack written into coredump, with the contents
consisting of normal C stack frames of the call chain leading to exit_mm()
instead of the expected copy of userland registers.  In case of alpha we
leak 312 bytes of stack.  Other architectures (including the regset-using
ones) might have similar problems - the normal user of regsets is ptrace
and the state of tracee at the time of such calls is special in the same
way signal delivery is.

Note that had the zapper gotten to the exiting thread slightly later,
it wouldn't have been included into coredump anyway - we skip the threads
that have already cleared their ->mm.  So let's pretend that zapper always
loses the race.  IOW, have exit_mm() only insert into the dumper list if
we'd gotten there from handling a fatal signal[*]

As the result, the callers of do_exit() that have *not* gone through get_signal()
are not seen by coredump logics as secondary threads.  Which excludes voluntary
exit()/oopsen/traps/etc.  The dumper thread itself is unaffected by that,
so seccomp is fine.

[*] originally I intended to add a new flag in tsk->flags, but ebiederman pointed
out that PF_SIGNALED is already doing just what we need.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d89f3847def4 ("[PATCH] thread-aware coredumps, 2.5.43-C3")
History-tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-11-18 19:20:31 +01:00
Documentation can: j1939: swap addr and pgn in the send example 2020-11-18 19:20:19 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch KVM: arm64: Don't hide ID registers from userspace 2020-11-18 19:20:29 +01:00
block blk-cgroup: Pre-allocate tree node on blkg_conf_prep 2020-11-10 12:37:30 +01:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto crypto: algif_skcipher - EBUSY on aio should be an error 2020-10-29 09:57:30 +01:00
drivers mmc: renesas_sdhi_core: Add missing tmio_mmc_host_free() at remove 2020-11-18 19:20:31 +01:00
fs btrfs: fix potential overflow in cluster_pages_for_defrag on 32bit arch 2020-11-18 19:20:30 +01:00
include SUNRPC: Fix general protection fault in trace_rpc_xdr_overflow() 2020-11-18 19:20:26 +01:00
init printk: reduce LOG_BUF_SHIFT range for H8300 2020-11-05 11:43:16 +01:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:20:16 +02:00
kernel don't dump the threads that had been already exiting when zapped. 2020-11-18 19:20:31 +01:00
lib random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable 2020-11-18 19:20:20 +01:00
mm mm/slub: fix panic in slab_alloc_node() 2020-11-18 19:20:30 +01:00
net cfg80211: regulatory: Fix inconsistent format argument 2020-11-18 19:20:23 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix possible deadlock in xdpsock 2020-11-05 11:43:17 +01:00
scripts scripts/setlocalversion: make git describe output more reliable 2020-11-01 12:01:01 +01:00
security selinux: Fix error return code in sel_ib_pkey_sid_slow() 2020-11-18 19:20:30 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda: Reinstate runtime_allow() for all hda controllers 2020-11-18 19:20:22 +01:00
tools bpf: Zero-fill re-used per-cpu map element 2020-11-18 19:20:26 +01:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-08 09:08:38 +02:00
virt KVM: arm64: ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 doesn't return SMCCC_RET_NOT_REQUIRED 2020-11-18 19:20:21 +01:00
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Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM 2020-08-26 10:40:46 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.4.77 2020-11-10 21:13:20 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.