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authorCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>2012-01-12 20:20:55 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-12 23:13:13 -0500
commit028ee4be34a09a6d48bdf30ab991ae933a7bc036 (patch)
tree455783226ceb65aee100f86afed529d4bbde1c8b /include/linux/prctl.h
parentb3f7f573a20081910e34e99cbc91831f4f02f1ff (diff)
c/r: prctl: add PR_SET_MM codes to set up mm_struct entries
When we restore a task we need to set up text, data and data heap sizes from userspace to the values a task had at checkpoint time. This patch adds auxilary prctl codes for that. While most of them have a statistical nature (their values are involved into calculation of /proc/<pid>/statm output) the start_brk and brk values are used to compute an allowed size of program data segment expansion. Which means an arbitrary changes of this values might be dangerous operation. So to restrict access the following requirements applied to prctl calls: - The process has to have CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability granted. - For all opcodes except start_brk/brk members an appropriate VMA area must exist and should fit certain VMA flags, such as: - code segment must be executable but not writable; - data segment must not be executable. start_brk/brk values must not intersect with data segment and must not exceed RLIMIT_DATA resource limit. Still the main guard is CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability check. Note the kernel should be compiled with CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE support otherwise these prctl calls will return -EINVAL. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cache current->mm in a local, saving 200 bytes text] Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/prctl.h')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/prctl.h b/include/linux/prctl.h
index a3baeb2c2161..7ddc7f1b480f 100644
--- a/include/linux/prctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/prctl.h
@@ -102,4 +102,16 @@
102 102
103#define PR_MCE_KILL_GET 34 103#define PR_MCE_KILL_GET 34
104 104
105/*
106 * Tune up process memory map specifics.
107 */
108#define PR_SET_MM 35
109# define PR_SET_MM_START_CODE 1
110# define PR_SET_MM_END_CODE 2
111# define PR_SET_MM_START_DATA 3
112# define PR_SET_MM_END_DATA 4
113# define PR_SET_MM_START_STACK 5
114# define PR_SET_MM_START_BRK 6
115# define PR_SET_MM_BRK 7
116
105#endif /* _LINUX_PRCTL_H */ 117#endif /* _LINUX_PRCTL_H */