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ipc: sysvsem: refuse clone(CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_NEWIPC) 

CLONE_NEWIPC|CLONE_SYSVSEM interaction isn't handled properly.  This can cause
a kernel memory corruption.  CLONE_NEWIPC must detach from the existing undo
lists.

Fix, part 3: refuse clone(CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_NEWIPC).

With unshare, specifying CLONE_SYSVSEM means unshare the sysvsem.  So it seems
reasonable that CLONE_NEWIPC without CLONE_SYSVSEM would just imply
CLONE_SYSVSEM.

However with clone, specifying CLONE_SYSVSEM means *share* the sysvsem.  So
calling clone(CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_NEWIPC) is explicitly asking for something
we can't allow.  So return -EINVAL in that case.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Serge E. Hallyn 2008-04-29 01:01:00 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6013f67fc1
commit 02fdb36ae7
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@ -139,6 +139,18 @@ int copy_namespaces(unsigned long flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
goto out;
}
/*
* CLONE_NEWIPC must detach from the undolist: after switching
* to a new ipc namespace, the semaphore arrays from the old
* namespace are unreachable. In clone parlance, CLONE_SYSVSEM
* means share undolist with parent, so we must forbid using
* it along with CLONE_NEWIPC.
*/
if ((flags & CLONE_NEWIPC) && (flags & CLONE_SYSVSEM)) {
err = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}
new_ns = create_new_namespaces(flags, tsk, tsk->fs);
if (IS_ERR(new_ns)) {
err = PTR_ERR(new_ns);