Bug#751417: linux-image-3.2.0-4-5kc-malta: no SIGKILL after prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP, 1, ...) on MIPS

[Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 09:21:41PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 20:36 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Control: tag -1 security upstream patch moreinfo
> > Control: severity -1 grave
> > Control: found -1 3.14.5-1
> 
> Aurelien Jarno pointed out this appears to be fixed upstream in 3.15:
> 
> commit 137f7df8cead00688524c82360930845396b8a21
> Author: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
> Date:   Wed Jan 22 14:40:00 2014 +0000
> 
>     MIPS: asm: thread_info: Add _TIF_SECCOMP flag
> 
> It looks like this can be cherry-picked cleanly onto stable branches for
> 3.13 and 3.14.  For 3.11 and 3.12, it will need trivial adjustment.
> 
> For branches older than 3.11, this needs to be cherry-picked first:
> 
> commit e7f3b48af7be9f8007a224663a5b91340626fed5
> Author: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Date:   Wed May 29 01:02:18 2013 +0200
> 
>     MIPS: Cleanup flags in syscall flags handlers.
> 
> Ben.
>

Thank you, I'm queuing this for the 3.11 kernel.

Cheers,
--
Luís

> > On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 16:19 +0000, Plamen Alexandrov wrote:
> > > Package: src:linux
> > > Version: 3.2.51-1
> > > Severity: normal
> > > 
> > > Under MIPS the system call prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP, 1, ...) does not behave as expected.
> > > According to the manual page, after calling it with 1 as a second argument, any consecutive system calls other than read(), write(), _exit() and sigreturn() should result in the delivery of SIGKILL. However, under MIPS any consecutive system call behaves as if prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP, 1, ...) was never called.
> > > 
> > > Here is a simple example that can be used to reproduce the bug:
> > > 
> > > plamen@debian-mips:/tmp$ id
> > > uid=1000(plamen) gid=1000(user) groups=1000(user)
> > > plamen@debian-mips:/tmp$ cat prctl.c 
> > > #include <unistd.h>
> > > #include <sys/prctl.h>
> > > #include <stdio.h>
> > > 
> > > int main(void)
> > > {
> > > 	if (prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP, 1, 0, 0, 0) != 0)
> > > 		return 0;
> > > 	uid_t uid = getuid();
> > > 	printf("%u\n", (unsigned)uid);
> > > 	return 0;
> > > }
> > > plamen@debian-mips:/tmp$ gcc prctl.c -o prctl
> > > plamen@debian-mips:/tmp$ ./prctl 
> > > 1000
> > > 
> > > There is no change if I replace
> > > 	if (prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP, 1, 0, 0, 0) != 0)
> > > with
> > > 	if (prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP, SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT, 0, 0, 0) != 0)
> > > and I add #include <linux/seccomp.h>
> > 
> > Indeed, I see no check for seccomp on the MIPS syscall 'fast path'.  The
> > seccomp check appears to be done on the 'slow path' which is used only
> > if tracing or audit is also enabled for the task.  If I run the above
> > program under strace, it is killed as expected.
> > 
> > Could you test whether the attached patches fix this?  (Instructions for
> > rebuilding the Debian kernel package with patches can be found at
> > <http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official>.  These patches apply to 'wheezy'.)
> > 
> > Ben.
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Ben Hutchings
> The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong.