On 12/21/2012 10:57:34 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
The sequence:
unshare(CLONE_NEWPID)
clone(CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_VM)
Creates a new process in the new pid namespace without setting
pid_ns->child_reaper. After forking this results in a NULL
pointer dereference.
Avoid this and other nonsense scenarios that can show up after
creating a new pid namespace with unshare by adding a new
check in copy_prodcess.
Pointed-out-by: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebied...@xmission.com>
---
kernel/fork.c | 8 ++++++++
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index a31b823..65ca6d2 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1166,6 +1166,14 @@ static struct task_struct
*copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
current->signal->flags &
SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ /*
+ * If the new process will be in a different pid namespace
+ * don't allow the creation of threads.
+ */
+ if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_VM|CLONE_NEWPID)) &&
+ (task_active_pid_ns(current) != current->nsproxy->pid_ns))
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
Since the first bit will trigger if clone_flags has just CLONE_VM
without CLONE_NEWPID, or vice versa, I'm guessing this is a fast path
optimization? (Otherwise you meant (clone_flags &
(CLONE_VM|CLONE_NEWPID)) == CLONE_VM|CLONE_NEWPID ?)
(Just trying to wrap my head around it...)
Rob--
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