[PATCH 6/5] capability: Repair sidechannel test in ptrace

Casey Schaufler casey.schaufler at intel.com
Thu Sep 27 19:17:20 UTC 2018


From: Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com>

The PTRACE_MODE_SCHED check erroniously returns 0 in
all cases. It should be returning -EPERM. This fixes
the logic to correct that error.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey.schaufler at intel.com>
---
 security/commoncap.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index e77457110d05..70a7e3d19c16 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -152,9 +152,8 @@ int cap_ptrace_access_check(struct task_struct *child, unsigned int mode)
 	if (cred->user_ns == child_cred->user_ns &&
 	    cap_issubset(child_cred->cap_permitted, *caller_caps))
 		goto out;
-	if (mode & PTRACE_MODE_SCHED)
-		goto out;
-	if (ns_capable(child_cred->user_ns, CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
+	if (!(mode & PTRACE_MODE_SCHED) &&
+	    ns_capable(child_cred->user_ns, CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
 		goto out;
 	ret = -EPERM;
 out:
-- 
2.17.1



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