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fix setuid sometimes doesn't
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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>
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Hugh Dickins authored and Linus Torvalds committed Mar 29, 2009
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion fs/compat.c
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Expand Up @@ -1441,7 +1441,7 @@ int compat_do_execve(char * filename,
bprm->cred = prepare_exec_creds();
if (!bprm->cred)
goto out_unlock;
check_unsafe_exec(bprm, current->files);
check_unsafe_exec(bprm);

file = open_exec(filename);
retval = PTR_ERR(file);
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10 changes: 3 additions & 7 deletions fs/exec.c
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Expand Up @@ -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;

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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);
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion fs/internal.h
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Expand Up @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ extern void __init chrdev_init(void);
/*
* exec.c
*/
extern void check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *, struct files_struct *);
extern void check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *);

/*
* namespace.c
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