proc: do not access cmdline nor environ from file-backed areas

proc_pid_cmdline_read() and environ_read() directly access the target
process' VM to retrieve the command line and environment. If this
process remaps these areas onto a file via mmap(), the requesting
process may experience various issues such as extra delays if the
underlying device is slow to respond.

Let's simply refuse to access file-backed areas in these functions.
For this we add a new FOLL_ANON gup flag that is passed to all calls
to access_remote_vm(). The code already takes care of such failures
(including unmapped areas). Accesses via /proc/pid/mem were not
changed though.

This was assigned CVE-2018-1120.

Note for stable backports: the patch may apply to kernels prior to 4.11
but silently miss one location; it must be checked that no call to
access_remote_vm() keeps zero as the last argument.

Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

fs/proc/base.c

@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_cmdline_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 	 * Inherently racy -- command line shares address space
 	 * with code and data.
 	 */
-	rv = access_remote_vm(mm, arg_end - 1, &c, 1, 0);
+	rv = access_remote_vm(mm, arg_end - 1, &c, 1, FOLL_ANON);
 	if (rv <= 0)
 		goto out_free_page;
 
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_cmdline_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 			int nr_read;
 
 			_count = min3(count, len, PAGE_SIZE);
-			nr_read = access_remote_vm(mm, p, page, _count, 0);
+			nr_read = access_remote_vm(mm, p, page, _count, FOLL_ANON);
 			if (nr_read < 0)
 				rv = nr_read;
 			if (nr_read <= 0)
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_cmdline_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 				bool final;
 
 				_count = min3(count, len, PAGE_SIZE);
-				nr_read = access_remote_vm(mm, p, page, _count, 0);
+				nr_read = access_remote_vm(mm, p, page, _count, FOLL_ANON);
 				if (nr_read < 0)
 					rv = nr_read;
 				if (nr_read <= 0)
@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ static ssize_t environ_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 		max_len = min_t(size_t, PAGE_SIZE, count);
 		this_len = min(max_len, this_len);
 
-		retval = access_remote_vm(mm, (env_start + src), page, this_len, 0);
+		retval = access_remote_vm(mm, (env_start + src), page, this_len, FOLL_ANON);
 
 		if (retval <= 0) {
 			ret = retval;

include/linux/mm.h

@@ -2493,6 +2493,7 @@ static inline struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 #define FOLL_MLOCK	0x1000	/* lock present pages */
 #define FOLL_REMOTE	0x2000	/* we are working on non-current tsk/mm */
 #define FOLL_COW	0x4000	/* internal GUP flag */
+#define FOLL_ANON	0x8000	/* don't do file mappings */
 
 static inline int vm_fault_to_errno(int vm_fault, int foll_flags)
 {

mm/gup.c

@@ -544,6 +544,9 @@ static int check_vma_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long gup_flags)
 	if (vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
+	if (gup_flags & FOLL_ANON && !vma_is_anonymous(vma))
+		return -EFAULT;
+
 	if (write) {
 		if (!(vm_flags & VM_WRITE)) {
 			if (!(gup_flags & FOLL_FORCE))