Commit-ID: 451eb3f2053ea4eeb40f94947c542cfbd7636186
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/451eb3f2053ea4eeb40f94947c542cfbd7636186
Author: John Ogness <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:42:17 +0200
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 23:04:59 +0200
fs/proc: Report eip/esp in /prod/PID/stat for coredumping
Commit 0a1eb2d474ed ("fs/proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in
/proc/PID/stat") stopped reporting eip/esp because it is
racey and dangerous for executing tasks. The comment adds:
As far as I know, there are no use programs that make any
material use of these fields, so just get rid of them.
However, existing userspace core-dump-handler applications (for
example, minicoredumper) are using these fields since they
provide an excellent cross-platform interface to these valuable
pointers. So that commit introduced a user space visible
regression.
Partially revert the change and make the readout possible for
tasks with the proper permissions and only if the target task
has the PF_DUMPCORE flag set.
Fixes: 0a1eb2d474ed ("fs/proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in> /proc/PID/stat")
Reported-by: Marco Felsch <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Tycho Andersen <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Linux API <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
---
fs/proc/array.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
index 88c3555..696cc68 100644
--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -421,7 +421,15 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct
pid_namespace *ns,
* esp and eip are intentionally zeroed out. There is no
* non-racy way to read them without freezing the task.
* Programs that need reliable values can use ptrace(2).
+ *
+ * The only exception is if the task is core dumping because
+ * a program is not able to use ptrace(2) in that case. It is
+ * safe because the task has stopped executing permanently.
*/
+ if (permitted && (task->flags & PF_DUMPCORE)) {
+ eip = KSTK_EIP(task);
+ esp = KSTK_ESP(task);
+ }
}
get_task_comm(tcomm, task);
