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signal: Add SA_IMMUTABLE to ensure forced siganls do not get changed

As Andy pointed out that there are races between force_sig_info_to_task and sigaction[1] when force_sig_info_task. As Kees discovered[2] ptrace is also able to change these signals. In the case of seeccomp killing a process with a signal it is a security violation to allow the signal to be caught or manipulated. Solve this problem by introducing a new flag SA_IMMUTABLE that prevents sigaction and ptrace from modifying these forced signals. This flag is carefully made kernel internal so that no new ABI is introduced. Longer term I think this can be solved by guaranteeing short circuit delivery of signals in this case. Unfortunately reliable and guaranteed short circuit delivery of these signals is still a ways off from being implemented, tested, and merged. So I have implemented a much simpler alternative for now. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b5d52d25-7bde-4030-a7b1-7c6f8ab90660@www.fastmail.com [2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202110281136.5CE65399A7@keescook Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 307d522f5eb8 ("signal/seccomp: Refactor seccomp signal and coredump generation") Tested-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Eric W. Biederman committed 5 years ago

Commit 00b06da1 parent e21294a3 files · +11 −1Browse files

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3 files
  1. include/linux/signal_types.h +3 −0
  2. include/uapi/asm-generic/signal-defs.h +1 −0
  3. kernel/signal.c +7 −1
include/linux/signal_types.h+3−0
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ struct ksignal { · 69 unmodified lines
7070 int sig;
7171 };
7272
73+/* Used to kill the race between sigaction and forced signals */
74+#define SA_IMMUTABLE 0x00800000
75+
7376 #ifndef __ARCH_UAPI_SA_FLAGS
7477 #ifdef SA_RESTORER
7578 #define __ARCH_UAPI_SA_FLAGS SA_RESTORER
include/uapi/asm-generic/signal-defs.h+1−0
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ · 44 unmodified lines
4545 #define SA_UNSUPPORTED 0x00000400
4646 #define SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS 0x00000800
4747 /* 0x00010000 used on mips */
48+/* 0x00800000 used for internal SA_IMMUTABLE */
4849 /* 0x01000000 used on x86 */
4950 /* 0x02000000 used on x86 */
5051 /*
kernel/signal.c+7−1
@@ -1336,6 +1336,7 @@ force_sig_info_to_task(struct kernel_siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t, bool · 1335 unmodified lines
13361336 blocked = sigismember(&t->blocked, sig);
13371337 if (blocked || ignored || sigdfl) {
13381338 action->sa.sa_handler = SIG_DFL;
1339+ action->sa.sa_flags |= SA_IMMUTABLE;
13391340 if (blocked) {
13401341 sigdelset(&t->blocked, sig);
13411342 recalc_sigpending_and_wake(t);
@@ -2760,7 +2761,8 @@ relock: · 1418 unmodified lines
27602761 if (!signr)
27612762 break; /* will return 0 */
27622763
2763− if (unlikely(current->ptrace) && signr != SIGKILL) {
2764+ if (unlikely(current->ptrace) && (signr != SIGKILL) &&
2765+ !(sighand->action[signr -1].sa.sa_flags & SA_IMMUTABLE)) {
27642766 signr = ptrace_signal(signr, &ksig->info);
27652767 if (!signr)
27662768 continue;
@@ -4110,6 +4112,10 @@ int do_sigaction(int sig, struct k_sigaction *act, struct k_sigaction *oact) · 1343 unmodified lines
41104112 k = &p->sighand->action[sig-1];
41114113
41124114 spin_lock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock);
4115+ if (k->sa.sa_flags & SA_IMMUTABLE) {
4116+ spin_unlock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock);
4117+ return -EINVAL;
4118+ }
41134119 if (oact)
41144120 *oact = *k;
41154121

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