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authorChristian Brauner <[email protected]>2025-02-12 11:24:28 +0000
committerChristian Brauner <[email protected]>2025-02-12 11:24:28 +0000
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parentLinux 6.14-rc2 (diff)
parentacct: block access to kernel internal filesystems (diff)
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Merge patch series "acct: don't allow access to internal filesystems"
Christian Brauner <[email protected]> says: In [1] it was reported that the acct(2) system call can be used to trigger a NULL deref in cases where it is set to write to a file that triggers an internal lookup. This can e.g., happen when pointing acct(2) to /sys/power/resume. At the point the where the write to this file happens the calling task has already exited and called exit_fs() but an internal lookup might be triggered through lookup_bdev(). This may trigger a NULL-deref when accessing current->fs. This series does two things: - Reorganize the code so that the the final write happens from the workqueue but with the caller's credentials. This preserves the (strange) permission model and has almost no regression risk. - Block access to kernel internal filesystems as well as procfs and sysfs in the first place. This api should stop to exist imho. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [1] * patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]: acct: block access to kernel internal filesystems acct: perform last write from workqueue Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
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