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[v3,14/15] exec: Use sane stack rlimit under secureexec

Message ID 1500416736-49829-15-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Kees Cook July 18, 2017, 10:25 p.m. UTC
For a secureexec, before memory layout selection has happened, reset the
stack rlimit to something sane to avoid the caller having control over
the resulting layouts.

$ ulimit -s
8192
$ ulimit -s unlimited
$ /bin/sh -c 'ulimit -s'
unlimited
$ sudo /bin/sh -c 'ulimit -s'
8192

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 fs/exec.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

Comments

James Morris July 19, 2017, 9:42 a.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, 18 Jul 2017, Kees Cook wrote:

> For a secureexec, before memory layout selection has happened, reset the
> stack rlimit to something sane to avoid the caller having control over
> the resulting layouts.
> 
> $ ulimit -s
> 8192
> $ ulimit -s unlimited
> $ /bin/sh -c 'ulimit -s'
> unlimited
> $ sudo /bin/sh -c 'ulimit -s'
> 8192
> 
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>


Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 45418d6ec583..4227c1e56566 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1349,6 +1349,18 @@  void setup_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
 	 */
 	bprm->secureexec |= bprm->cap_elevated;
 
+	if (bprm->secureexec) {
+		/*
+		 * For secureexec, reset the stack limit to sane default to
+		 * avoid bad behavior from the prior rlimits. This has to
+		 * happen before arch_pick_mmap_layout(), which examines
+		 * RLIMIT_STACK, but after the point of no return to avoid
+		 * needing to clean up the change on failure.
+		 */
+		if (current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur > _STK_LIM)
+			current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur = _STK_LIM;
+	}
+
 	arch_pick_mmap_layout(current->mm);
 
 	current->sas_ss_sp = current->sas_ss_size = 0;