Re: [PATCH] sched: debug: use task_pid_vnr in /proc/$pid/sched

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Sat Aug 05 2017 - 23:58:33 EST


Aleksa Sarai <asarai@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On 2017-08-06 02:52, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
>> It appears as though the addition of the PID namespace did not update
>> the output code for /proc/$pid/sched, which made it trivial to figure
>> out whether a process was inside &init_pid_ns from userspace (making
>> container detection trivial[1]). This lead to situations such as:
>>
>> % unshare -pf head -n1 /proc/self/sched
>> head (10047, #threads: 1)
>>
>> Fix this by just using task_pid_vnr for the output of /proc/$pid/sched.
>> All of the other uses of task_pid_nr in kernel/sched/debug.c are from a
>> sysctl context and thus don't need to be namespaced.
>>
>> [1]: https://github.com/jessfraz/amicontained


>>
>> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jess Frazelle <acidburn@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <asarai@xxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> kernel/sched/debug.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c
>> index 4fa66de52bd6..a06acbe33e16 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
>> @@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ void proc_sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p,
>> struct seq_file *m)
>> {
>> unsigned long nr_switches;
>>
>> - SEQ_printf(m, "%s (%d, #threads: %d)\n", p->comm, task_pid_nr(p),
>> + SEQ_printf(m, "%s (%d, #threads: %d)\n", p->comm, task_pid_vnr(p),
>> get_nr_threads(p));
>> SEQ_printf(m,
>> "---------------------------------------------------------"
>
> Added Eric to Cc.

Changing this to pid_nr_ns, to make this relative to the pid namespace
of proc would be very reasonable.

Making files content relative to current is in general a bug.

Hiding the fact you are contained is not an explicit goal. But making
those things that are reasonably in a namespace relative to that
namespace is.

Eric