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tty: Fix multiple races when setting the controlling terminal
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Claim a read lock on the tasklist_lock while setting the controlling
terminal for the session leader. This fixes multiple races:
1. task_pgrp() and task_session() cannot be safely dereferenced, such
   as passing to get_pid(), without holding either rcu_read_lock() or
   tasklist_lock
2. setsid() unwisely allows any thread in the thread group to
   make the thread group leader the session leader; this makes the
   unlocked reads of ->signal->leader and signal->tty potentially
   unordered, stale or even have spurious values.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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peterhurley authored and gregkh committed Nov 6, 2014
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23 changes: 17 additions & 6 deletions drivers/tty/tty_io.c
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Expand Up @@ -502,8 +502,15 @@ void proc_clear_tty(struct task_struct *p)
tty_kref_put(tty);
}

/* Called under the sighand lock */

/**
* proc_set_tty - set the controlling terminal
*
* Only callable by the session leader and only if it does not already have
* a controlling terminal.
*
* Caller must hold: a readlock on tasklist_lock
* sighand lock
*/
static void __proc_set_tty(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
unsigned long flags;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2150,13 +2157,15 @@ static int tty_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)

mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
tty_lock(tty);
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
if (!noctty &&
current->signal->leader &&
!current->signal->tty &&
tty->session == NULL)
__proc_set_tty(tty);
spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
tty_unlock(tty);
mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
return 0;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2447,10 +2456,13 @@ static int fionbio(struct file *file, int __user *p)
static int tiocsctty(struct tty_struct *tty, int arg)
{
int ret = 0;
if (current->signal->leader && (task_session(current) == tty->session))
return ret;

mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);

if (current->signal->leader && (task_session(current) == tty->session))
goto unlock;

/*
* The process must be a session leader and
* not have a controlling tty already.
Expand All @@ -2469,16 +2481,15 @@ static int tiocsctty(struct tty_struct *tty, int arg)
/*
* Steal it away
*/
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
session_clear_tty(tty->session);
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
} else {
ret = -EPERM;
goto unlock;
}
}
proc_set_tty(tty);
unlock:
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
return ret;
}
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