Re: [PATCH 1/3] fork: assign refed credentials earlier

From: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 02:57:22 +0100
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 03:51:51AM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 02:00:38AM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> > From: Mateusz Guzik <mjg_at_freebsd.org>
> > 
> > Prior to this change the kernel would take p1's credentials and assign
> > them tempororarily to p2. But p1 could change credentials at that time
> > and in effect give us a use-after-free.
> In which way could it change the credentials ?  The assigned credentials
> are taken from td_ucred, which, I thought, are guaranteed to be stable
> for the duration of a syscall.
> 

It takes thread's credential in do_fork. But initial copy is taken
unlocked from struct proc.

Relevant part of the diff:
> > _at__at_ -870,7 +867,7 _at__at_ fork1(struct thread *td, int flags, int pages, struct proc **procp,
> >  	 * XXX: This is ugly; when we copy resource usage, we need to bump
> >  	 *      per-cred resource counters.
> >  	 */
> > -	proc_set_cred(newproc, p1->p_ucred);
> > +	proc_set_cred(newproc, crhold(td->td_ucred));
> >  

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Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>
Received on Sat Mar 21 2015 - 00:57:29 UTC

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