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A common exploit pattern for ROP attacks is to abuse prepare_kernel_cred() in order to construct escalated privileges[1]. Instead of providing a short-hand argument (NULL) to the "daemon" argument to indicate using init_cred as the base cred, require that "daemon" is always set to an actual task. Replace all existing callers that were passing NULL with &init_task. Future attacks will need to have sufficiently powerful read/write primitives to have found an appropriately privileged task and written it to the ROP stack as an argument to succeed, which is similarly difficult to the prior effort needed to escalate privileges before struct cred existed: locate the current cred and overwrite the uid member. This has the added benefit of meaning that prepare_kernel_cred() can no longer exceed the privileges of the init task, which may have changed from the original init_cred (e.g. dropping capabilities from the bounding set). [1] https://google.com/search?q=commit_creds(prepare_kernel_cred(0)) Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org> Cc: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com> Cc: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com> Cc: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com> Cc: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Cc: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Acked-by: Russ Weight <russell.h.weight@intel.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@cjr.nz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221026232943.never.775-kees@kernel.org |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.