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mm/madvise: replace ptrace attach requirement for process_madvise
authorSuren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Sat, 13 Mar 2021 05:08:06 +0000 (21:08 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 13 Mar 2021 19:27:30 +0000 (11:27 -0800)
commit96cfe2c0fd23ea7c2368d14f769d287e7ae1082e
tree86c52cdf87ff93b8c5eaf1c1f54567375ecbcd5d
parent149fc787353f65b7e72e05e7b75d34863266c3e2
mm/madvise: replace ptrace attach requirement for process_madvise

process_madvise currently requires ptrace attach capability.
PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH gives one process complete control over another
process.  It effectively removes the security boundary between the two
processes (in one direction).  Granting ptrace attach capability even to a
system process is considered dangerous since it creates an attack surface.
This severely limits the usage of this API.

The operations process_madvise can perform do not affect the correctness
of the operation of the target process; they only affect where the data is
physically located (and therefore, how fast it can be accessed).  What we
want is the ability for one process to influence another process in order
to optimize performance across the entire system while leaving the
security boundary intact.

Replace PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH with a combination of PTRACE_MODE_READ and
CAP_SYS_NICE.  PTRACE_MODE_READ to prevent leaking ASLR metadata and
CAP_SYS_NICE for influencing process performance.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210303185807.2160264-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.10+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/madvise.c