procfs: allow reading fdinfo with PTRACE_MODE_READ

Android captures per-process system memory state when certain low memory
events (e.g a foreground app kill) occur, to identify potential memory
hoggers.  In order to measure how much memory a process actually consumes,
it is necessary to include the DMA buffer sizes for that process in the
memory accounting.  Since the handle to DMA buffers are raw FDs, it is
important to be able to identify which processes have FD references to a
DMA buffer.

Currently, DMA buffer FDs can be accounted using /proc/<pid>/fd/* and
/proc/<pid>/fdinfo -- both are only readable by the process owner, as
follows:

  1. Do a readlink on each FD.
  2. If the target path begins with "/dmabuf", then the FD is a dmabuf FD.
  3. stat the file to get the dmabuf inode number.
  4. Read/ proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd>, to get the DMA buffer size.

Accessing other processes' fdinfo requires root privileges.  This limits
the use of the interface to debugging environments and is not suitable for
production builds.  Granting root privileges even to a system process
increases the attack surface and is highly undesirable.

Since fdinfo doesn't permit reading process memory and manipulating
process state, allow accessing fdinfo under PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCRED.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Christian König <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Gladkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <[email protected]>
Cc: Bernd Edlinger <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Cc: Hridya Valsaraju <[email protected]>
Cc: James Morris <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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