Re: [PATCH 2/2] seccomp: disallow NEW_LISTENER and TSYNC flags

From: Tycho Andersen
Date: Tue Apr 23 2019 - 19:34:28 EST


On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 04:31:45PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 3:09 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 12:14 PM Tycho Andersen <tycho@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > As the comment notes, the return codes for TSYNC and NEW_LISTENER conflict,
> > > because they both return positive values, one in the case of success and
> > > one in the case of error. So, let's disallow both of these flags together.
> > >
> > > While this is technically a userspace break, all the users I know of are
> > > still waiting on me to land this feature in libseccomp, so I think it'll be
> > > safe. Also, at present my use case doesn't require TSYNC at all, so this
> > > isn't a big deal to disallow. If someone wanted to support this, a path
> > > forward would be to add a new flag like
> > > TSYNC_AND_LISTENER_YES_I_UNDERSTAND_THAT_TSYNC_WILL_JUST_RETURN_EAGAIN, but
> > > the use cases are so different I don't see it really happening.
> > >
> > > Finally, it's worth noting that this does actually fix a UAF issue: at the end
> > > of seccomp_set_mode_filter(), we have:
> > >
> > > if (flags & SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_NEW_LISTENER) {
> > > if (ret < 0) {
> > > listener_f->private_data = NULL;
> > > fput(listener_f);
> > > put_unused_fd(listener);
> > > } else {
> > > fd_install(listener, listener_f);
> > > ret = listener;
> > > }
> > > }
> > > out_free:
> > > seccomp_filter_free(prepared);
> > >
> > > But if ret > 0 because TSYNC raced, we'll install the listener fd and then free
> > > the filter out from underneath it, causing a UAF when the task closes it or
> > > dies. This patch also switches the condition to be simply if (ret), so that
> > > if someone does add the flag mentioned above, they won't have to remember
> > > to fix this too.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Fixes: 6a21cc50f0c7 ("seccomp: add a return code to trap to userspace")
> > > CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v5.0+
> >
> > Thanks! Sorry I missed this. James, can you take this for Linus's
> > fixes for v5.1? (Or should I send a pull request to you?)
> >
> > Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Let's also add:
> >
> > Reported-by: syzbot+b562969adb2e04af3442@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > > ---
> > > kernel/seccomp.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
> > > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c
> > > index d0d355ded2f4..79bada51091b 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/seccomp.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/seccomp.c
> > > @@ -500,7 +500,10 @@ seccomp_prepare_user_filter(const char __user *user_filter)
> > > *
> > > * Caller must be holding current->sighand->siglock lock.
> > > *
> > > - * Returns 0 on success, -ve on error.
> > > + * Returns 0 on success, -ve on error, or
> > > + * - in TSYNC mode: the pid of a thread which was either not in the correct
> > > + * seccomp mode or did not have an ancestral seccomp filter
> > > + * - in NEW_LISTENER mode: the fd of the new listener
> > > */
> > > static long seccomp_attach_filter(unsigned int flags,
> > > struct seccomp_filter *filter)
> > > @@ -1256,6 +1259,16 @@ static long seccomp_set_mode_filter(unsigned int flags,
> > > if (flags & ~SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_MASK)
> > > return -EINVAL;
> > >
> > > + /*
> > > + * In the successful case, NEW_LISTENER returns the new listener fd.
> > > + * But in the failure case, TSYNC returns the thread that died. If you
> > > + * combine these two flags, there's no way to tell whether something
> > > + * succeded or failed. So, let's disallow this combination.
> >
> > also a tiny typo: succeeded
> >
> > > + */
> > > + if ((flags & SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC) &&
> > > + (flags && SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_NEW_LISTENER))
>
> also a typo: && should be &

Oh, yes. Do you want me to send another version?

Tycho