From: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> The semantics of what mincore() considers to be resident is not completely clear, but Linux has always (since 2.3.52, which is when mincore() was initially done) treated it as "page is available in page cache".
That's potentially a problem, as that [in]directly exposes meta-information about pagecache / memory mapping state even about memory not strictly belonging to the process executing the syscall, opening possibilities for sidechannel attacks. Change the semantics of mincore() so that it only reveals pagecache information for non-anonymous mappings that belog to files that the calling process could (if it tried to) successfully open for writing. Originally-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Originally-by: Dominique Martinet <[email protected]> Cc: Dominique Martinet <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]> Cc: Kevin Easton <[email protected]> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> Cc: Cyril Hrubis <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Cc: Daniel Gruss <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> --- mm/mincore.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/mincore.c b/mm/mincore.c index 218099b5ed31..747a4907a3ac 100644 --- a/mm/mincore.c +++ b/mm/mincore.c @@ -169,6 +169,14 @@ static int mincore_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, return 0; } +static inline bool can_do_mincore(struct vm_area_struct *vma) +{ + return vma_is_anonymous(vma) || + (vma->vm_file && + (inode_owner_or_capable(file_inode(vma->vm_file)) + || inode_permission(file_inode(vma->vm_file), MAY_WRITE) == 0)); +} + /* * Do a chunk of "sys_mincore()". We've already checked * all the arguments, we hold the mmap semaphore: we should @@ -189,8 +197,13 @@ static long do_mincore(unsigned long addr, unsigned long pages, unsigned char *v vma = find_vma(current->mm, addr); if (!vma || addr < vma->vm_start) return -ENOMEM; - mincore_walk.mm = vma->vm_mm; end = min(vma->vm_end, addr + (pages << PAGE_SHIFT)); + if (!can_do_mincore(vma)) { + unsigned long pages = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT; + memset(vec, 1, pages); + return pages; + } + mincore_walk.mm = vma->vm_mm; err = walk_page_range(addr, end, &mincore_walk); if (err < 0) return err; -- 2.20.1
