qubes-linux-kernel/patches.fixes/execve-make-responsive-to-sigkill-with-large-arguments
Rafal Wojtczuk 7d09435354 A few security fixes from SUSE kernel-source-2.6.34.7-0.3.1.src.rpm
Mind this is aesthetics mainly - we do not care much about privilege escalations in AppVM.
2010-09-30 16:56:23 +02:00

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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 02:37:06 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: execve: make responsive to SIGKILL with large arguments
Git-commit: 9aea5a65aa7a1af9a4236dfaeb0088f1624f9919
Patch-mainline: 2.6.36-rc4
References: bnc#635425
Introduced-by: 2.6.23
execve: make responsive to SIGKILL with large arguments
An execve with a very large total of argument/environment strings
can take a really long time in the execve system call. It runs
uninterruptibly to count and copy all the strings. This change
makes it abort the exec quickly if sent a SIGKILL.
Note that this is the conservative change, to interrupt only for
SIGKILL, by using fatal_signal_pending(). It would be perfectly
correct semantics to let any signal interrupt the string-copying in
execve, i.e. use signal_pending() instead of fatal_signal_pending().
We'll save that change for later, since it could have user-visible
consequences, such as having a timer set too quickly make it so that
an execve can never complete, though it always happened to work before.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
---
fs/exec.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 6f2d777..828dd24 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -376,6 +376,9 @@ static int count(const char __user * const __user * argv, int max)
argv++;
if (i++ >= max)
return -E2BIG;
+
+ if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
+ return -ERESTARTNOHAND;
cond_resched();
}
}
@@ -419,6 +422,10 @@ static int copy_strings(int argc, const char __user *const __user *argv,
while (len > 0) {
int offset, bytes_to_copy;
+ if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
+ ret = -ERESTARTNOHAND;
+ goto out;
+ }
cond_resched();
offset = pos % PAGE_SIZE;