fix setuid sometimes doesn't

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From: Linux Kernel Mailing List
Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 5:59 pm

Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/e426b64c412aaa3e9eb3e4b261dc5be0d5a83e78
Commit:     e426b64c412aaa3e9eb3e4b261dc5be0d5a83e78
Parent:     53e9309e01277ec99c38e84e0ca16921287cf470
Author:     Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
AuthorDate: Sat Mar 28 23:20:19 2009 +0000
Committer:  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CommitDate: Sat Mar 28 17:30:00 2009 -0700

    fix setuid sometimes doesn't
    
    Joe Malicki reports that setuid sometimes doesn't: very rarely,
    a setuid root program does not get root euid; and, by the way,
    they have a health check running lsof every few minutes.
    
    Right, check_unsafe_exec() notes whether the files_struct is being
    shared by more threads than will get killed by the exec, and if so
    sets LSM_UNSAFE_SHARE to make bprm_set_creds() careful about euid.
    But /proc/<pid>/fd and /proc/<pid>/fdinfo lookups make transient
    use of get_files_struct(), which also raises that sharing count.
    
    There's a rather simple fix for this: exec's check on files->count
    has been redundant ever since 2.6.1 made it unshare_files() (except
    while compat_do_execve() omitted to do so) - just remove that check.
    
    [Note to -stable: this patch will not apply before 2.6.29: earlier
    releases should just remove the files->count line from unsafe_exec().]
    
    Reported-by: Joe Malicki <jmalicki@metacarta.com>
    Narrowed-down-by: Michael Itz <mitz@metacarta.com>
    Tested-by: Joe Malicki <jmalicki@metacarta.com>
    Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 fs/compat.c   |    2 +-
 fs/exec.c     |   10 +++-------
 fs/internal.h |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index b543363..55efdfe 100644
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -1441,7 +1441,7 @@ int compat_do_execve(char * filename,
 	bprm->cred = prepare_exec_creds();
 	if (!bprm->cred)
 		goto out_unlock;
-	check_unsafe_exec(bprm, current->files);
+	check_unsafe_exec(bprm);
 
 	file = open_exec(filename);
 	retval = PTR_ERR(file);
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index b9f1c14..c5128fb 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1056,28 +1056,24 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(install_exec_creds);
  * - the caller must hold current->cred_exec_mutex to protect against
  *   PTRACE_ATTACH
  */
-void check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct files_struct *files)
+void check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 {
 	struct task_struct *p = current, *t;
 	unsigned long flags;
-	unsigned n_fs, n_files, n_sighand;
+	unsigned n_fs, n_sighand;
 
 	bprm->unsafe = tracehook_unsafe_exec(p);
 
 	n_fs = 1;
-	n_files = 1;
 	n_sighand = 1;
 	lock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
 	for (t = next_thread(p); t != p; t = next_thread(t)) {
 		if (t->fs == p->fs)
 			n_fs++;
-		if (t->files == files)
-			n_files++;
 		n_sighand++;
 	}
 
 	if (atomic_read(&p->fs->count) > n_fs ||
-	    atomic_read(&p->files->count) > n_files ||
 	    atomic_read(&p->sighand->count) > n_sighand)
 		bprm->unsafe |= LSM_UNSAFE_SHARE;
 
@@ -1300,7 +1296,7 @@ int do_execve(char * filename,
 	bprm->cred = prepare_exec_creds();
 	if (!bprm->cred)
 		goto out_unlock;
-	check_unsafe_exec(bprm, displaced);
+	check_unsafe_exec(bprm);
 
 	file = open_exec(filename);
 	retval = PTR_ERR(file);
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index 0d8ac49..53af885 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ extern void __init chrdev_init(void);
 /*
  * exec.c
  */
-extern void check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *, struct files_struct *);
+extern void check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *);
 
 /*
  * namespace.c
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