ptrace: Properly initialize ptracer_cred on fork

When I introduced ptracer_cred I failed to consider the weirdness of
fork where the task_struct copies the old value by default.  This
winds up leaving ptracer_cred set even when a process forks and
the child process does not wind up being ptraced.

Because ptracer_cred is not set on non-ptraced processes whose
parents were ptraced this has broken the ability of the enlightenment
window manager to start setuid children.

Fix this by properly initializing ptracer_cred in ptrace_init_task

This must be done with a little bit of care to preserve the current value
of ptracer_cred when ptrace carries through fork.  Re-reading the
ptracer_cred from the ptracing process at this point is inconsistent
with how PT_PTRACE_CAP has been maintained all of these years.

Tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Fixes: 64b875f7ac8a ("ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 266ddcc1d8bb..60f356d91060 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -60,19 +60,25 @@ int ptrace_access_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr,
 }
 
 
+void __ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child, struct task_struct *new_parent,
+		   const struct cred *ptracer_cred)
+{
+	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&child->ptrace_entry));
+	list_add(&child->ptrace_entry, &new_parent->ptraced);
+	child->parent = new_parent;
+	child->ptracer_cred = get_cred(ptracer_cred);
+}
+
 /*
  * ptrace a task: make the debugger its new parent and
  * move it to the ptrace list.
  *
  * Must be called with the tasklist lock write-held.
  */
-void __ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child, struct task_struct *new_parent)
+static void ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child, struct task_struct *new_parent)
 {
-	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&child->ptrace_entry));
-	list_add(&child->ptrace_entry, &new_parent->ptraced);
-	child->parent = new_parent;
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	child->ptracer_cred = get_cred(__task_cred(new_parent));
+	__ptrace_link(child, new_parent, __task_cred(new_parent));
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
@@ -386,7 +392,7 @@ static int ptrace_attach(struct task_struct *task, long request,
 		flags |= PT_SEIZED;
 	task->ptrace = flags;
 
-	__ptrace_link(task, current);
+	ptrace_link(task, current);
 
 	/* SEIZE doesn't trap tracee on attach */
 	if (!seize)
@@ -459,7 +465,7 @@ static int ptrace_traceme(void)
 		 */
 		if (!ret && !(current->real_parent->flags & PF_EXITING)) {
 			current->ptrace = PT_PTRACED;
-			__ptrace_link(current, current->real_parent);
+			ptrace_link(current, current->real_parent);
 		}
 	}
 	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);