fs/proc: Report eip/esp in /prod/PID/stat for coredumping

Commit 0a1eb2d474ed ("fs/proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in
/proc/PID/stat") stopped reporting eip/esp because it is
racy and dangerous for executing tasks. The comment adds:

    As far as I know, there are no use programs that make any
    material use of these fields, so just get rid of them.

However, existing userspace core-dump-handler applications (for
example, minicoredumper) are using these fields since they
provide an excellent cross-platform interface to these valuable
pointers. So that commit introduced a user space visible
regression.

Partially revert the change and make the readout possible for
tasks with the proper permissions and only if the target task
has the PF_DUMPCORE flag set.

Fixes: 0a1eb2d474ed ("fs/proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in> /proc/PID/stat")
Reported-by: Marco Felsch <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Tycho Andersen <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Linux API <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
index 88c355574aa0..525157ca25cb 100644
--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
 #include <linux/mman.h>
 #include <linux/sched/mm.h>
 #include <linux/sched/numa_balancing.h>
+#include <linux/sched/task_stack.h>
 #include <linux/sched/task.h>
 #include <linux/sched/cputime.h>
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
@@ -421,7 +422,15 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 		 * esp and eip are intentionally zeroed out.  There is no
 		 * non-racy way to read them without freezing the task.
 		 * Programs that need reliable values can use ptrace(2).
+		 *
+		 * The only exception is if the task is core dumping because
+		 * a program is not able to use ptrace(2) in that case. It is
+		 * safe because the task has stopped executing permanently.
 		 */
+		if (permitted && (task->flags & PF_DUMPCORE)) {
+			eip = KSTK_EIP(task);
+			esp = KSTK_ESP(task);
+		}
 	}
 
 	get_task_comm(tcomm, task);