ipc: sysvsem: refuse clone(CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_NEWIPC)
authorSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:01:00 +0000 (01:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:06:14 +0000 (08:06 -0700)
CLONE_NEWIPC|CLONE_SYSVSEM interaction isn't handled properly.  This can cause
a kernel memory corruption.  CLONE_NEWIPC must detach from the existing undo
lists.

Fix, part 3: refuse clone(CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_NEWIPC).

With unshare, specifying CLONE_SYSVSEM means unshare the sysvsem.  So it seems
reasonable that CLONE_NEWIPC without CLONE_SYSVSEM would just imply
CLONE_SYSVSEM.

However with clone, specifying CLONE_SYSVSEM means *share* the sysvsem.  So
calling clone(CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_NEWIPC) is explicitly asking for something
we can't allow.  So return -EINVAL in that case.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/nsproxy.c

index f5d332cf8c631704b1ee440c35317644e4f6eff9..adc785146a1cb81d6f7b3d676877921f10bb59e7 100644 (file)
@@ -139,6 +139,18 @@ int copy_namespaces(unsigned long flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
                goto out;
        }
 
+       /*
+        * CLONE_NEWIPC must detach from the undolist: after switching
+        * to a new ipc namespace, the semaphore arrays from the old
+        * namespace are unreachable.  In clone parlance, CLONE_SYSVSEM
+        * means share undolist with parent, so we must forbid using
+        * it along with CLONE_NEWIPC.
+        */
+       if ((flags & CLONE_NEWIPC) && (flags & CLONE_SYSVSEM)) {
+               err = -EINVAL;
+               goto out;
+       }
+
        new_ns = create_new_namespaces(flags, tsk, tsk->fs);
        if (IS_ERR(new_ns)) {
                err = PTR_ERR(new_ns);